In a wide-ranging Politico podcast, Obama suggested that Sanders, who has been surging in the Democratic race, is succeeding because voters were more easily attracted to novelty, versus established candidates like Clinton.
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“Well, I think they’re very important because the polls show her and (Vermont Sen.) Bernie (Sanders) nearly equal”, said Jim Scheffler, of Bondurant.
“We also have a really good team on the ground that has been working for months to make sure that it’s not just here today, gone tomorrow but that people are involved, they are really reached out to, and yes, we believe they’re going to come caucus”.
“I think it would be very interesting if Donald Trump became the Republican candidate who is a multi-billionaire, and Michael Bloomberg became an independent candidate who is a multi-billionaire”, Sanders said Sunday in an interview on “ABC News This Week”. “I wasn’t crisp in my presentation, and that was true for a while”, Obama said.
However, despite Hillary dominating Sanders’ numbers in the national polls, Sanders still leads over Hillary in key states such as Iowa and New Hampshire.
But the scrutiny will amp up for Sanders if he begins to win nominating contests, Obama told Politico during a somewhat nostalgic interview that recalled his win in the Iowa caucuses, which catapulted him to the front of the 2008 race.
The Boston Globe said Sunday it was throwing its support behind Hillary Clinton for the upcoming primary in New Hampshire.
Asked if Trump’s standing hurts his chances, Rubio, who has received endorsements from more than a dozen members of Congress, said voters should resist supporting the “next person in line or who the people in Washington tell us we’re supposed to be voting for”.
Obama said he had spared Clinton and Sanders his advice about how to run a campaign: “I have not been trying to, you know, kibitz and, you know, stick my nose into every aspect of their strategy”.
With the final week of campaign commencing, both the Democratic presidential candidates are doing everything they can to win the voters. “Because the one thing everybody understands is that this job right here, you don’t have the luxury of just focusing on one thing”.
While it praised him for pushing Clinton to the left and raising the topic of income inequality, it questioned his lack of foreign policy experience and inability to reach beyond his already committed supporters.
During the interview, the president also expressed regret for his 2008 campaign’s tactics when he faced Clinton. “She had to do everything that I had to do, except, like Ginger Rogers, backwards in heels”, he said.
Obama also said Sanders would need to broaden his message to continue to succeed. “She had to, you know, handle all the expectations that were placed on her. She had a tougher job throughout that primary than I did”.
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The endorsement came just a day after Clinton won the endorsement of the largest newspaper in Iowa, The Des Moines Register.
