Less than three weeks from the first cast ballots of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, Bernie Sanders is leading Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton in the state, according to a new poll. Though Clinton held a 46% to 44% lead in that category in December, Sanders has now blown past her – with 57% surveyed saying he more closely represents their views, compared to just 38% for Clinton.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says though many of Vermont Sen.
“Her diehard supporters are feeling confident, but inside the campaign there is concern as much that she could lose to Sanders in Iowa and/or New Hampshire as what a long protracted, costly battle with Sanders could mean throughout the spring”.
At these last stops across Iowa before the caucuses, flanked by her campaign’s signature “Fighting For Us” signs, Clinton has taken to naming the men and women she’s met in her nine months on the campaign trail, people who’ve shared their problems and need urgent, pragmatic solutions, she says.
Recent preference polls suggest her lead in Iowa has evaporated and in New Hampshire, Sanders has opened up a significant edge. “However, he would still have to overcome Clinton’s demographic advantage in the ensuing contests”, Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement accompanying the poll.
CNN/ORC surveyed 2,002 Iowa adults by telephone January 15 to January 20, including 266 likely Republican presidential caucus-goers and 280 likely Democratic presidential caucus-goers.
Mrs. Clinton is not attuned to the political situation she faces.
Even if Sanders believes the emails reveal nothing startling, he could legitimately raise the issue of Clinton’s veracity. She never mentioned Sanders by name Friday, but Shaheen did.
Although Clinton avoided directly hitting Sanders earlier in the day, she did comment on the fact that Sanders said earlier this week that groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign – all organizations that endorsed Clinton – were part of the “establishment” that he was running against.
“When he points to the people in this room and he declares that you are what’s wrong with America, and part of the establishment that he’s up against, he is just dead wrong”, she said. Bernie Sanders’s ideas sound good in theory, “In theory isn’t enough”. “Here’s an area where I think Secretary Clinton and I have a strong difference of opinion”. “So Sanders picks up the first two states”.
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Clinton, on the other hand, supported DOMA in her 2000 senate campaign and only came out in favor of gay marriage in 2013.
