Clinton appeared in Iowa City at the University of Iowa just a day after a new poll showed Bernie Sanders leading her by eight points in the state. Clinton scored 65 percent as the best to handle foreign policy if she was elected president, while Sanders scored 25 percent.
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On Thursday, David Brock, a top Clinton ally, criticized a new ad from Sanders, saying it presents a “bizarre” image of America, focused on white voters. One from CNN/WMUR has Sanders with 60 percent to Clinton’s 33 percent, while he beat Clinton 49 percent to 43 percent in an ARG poll and came in with 46 percent to Clinton’s 43 percent in a Gravis poll.
The three new ads, which will air on stations in Iowa and New Hampshire, are part of a major new push on television from the campaign.
Democrats are growing more concerned that the Hillary Clinton-Bernie Sanders contest could turn into a months-long nomination fight damaging to the party.
In the Republican race, Trump leads Cruz by 11 points, 37-26 percent. Sanders cast himself as the outsider who would lead a political revolution, while Clinton touted her experience and embraced President Barack Obama’s legacy.
Clinton has a slim lead over rival Bernie Sanders in Iowa polls, less than two weeks before the caucuses.
“The proposal would not succeed, but it would cause very real consternation among our allies and partners”, Sullivan added.
The CNN/ORC poll was released Thursday and comes just days after a Democratic debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “That is like asking the arsonist to be the firefighter”, Clinton said. The sample included 266 who were likely to participate in the Republican presidential caucus and 280 who were likely to participate in the Democratic presidential caucus.
Clinton continues to stick by her original line on the email controversy – that she never sent or received anything that was classified at the time – but the latest news is proof that the story and its reverberations are likely to dog her all the way through November.
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Donald Trump holds a commanding lead in Iowa as Sen. As the first primary voting grows close – and now a little more than a week away – voters are starting to pay more attention and it seems that Sanders is taking a large share of the previously undecided voters. Only 49 percent of Republicans say they have definitely made up their mind on whom to support. They found an average error margin of 10.6 percentage points.
