While the endorsements from the newspaper have the potential to boost a candidate, they often do not predict success in Iowa’s distinctive, time-consuming caucus system of picking nominees, which involves voters meeting in public places to discuss their preferences.
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Clinton pushed back at suggestions that she’s new to the economic issues that have been at the center of Sanders’ campaign.
“I think Bernie came in with the luxury of being a complete longshot and just letting loose”, Obama said.
Though Clinton still has a commanding lead over Sanders in South Carolina, Sanders has been climbing steadily.
“Hillary Clinton is more a representation of the status quo when I think about politics or about what it means to be a Democrat”, said Mr. Bamberg…”Bernie Sanders on the other hand is bold”.
“I can only react to what I’m doing, feeling, getting responses from people”, she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” the morning after winning the endorsement of Iowa’s largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register.
Bloomberg’s entrance into the race, Sanders told anchor Martha Raddatz, “will tell people what I have been saying for a long time is that this country is moving away from democracy to oligarchy that billionaires are the people who are controlling our political life”.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, locked in an unexpectedly tight race, planned to deliver their final-stretch pitches Monday evening in a televised town hall forum, while President Barack Obama delivered his own blunt assessment of their contest.
“(S)he’s extraordinarily experienced – and, you know, wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out – (and) sometimes (that) could make her more cautious, and her campaign more prose than poetry”, Obama said of Clinton. “I respect him.” Mike Wiseman, a supply chain manager who in the past has supported the libertarians Rand and Ron Paul, said he was considering caucusing for Sanders even though he said there’s a lot of distance between them on fiscal issues.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen.
In the critical early-caucus race in Iowa, Clinton and Sanders are virtually tied in the polls as of now, CBS News reported.
On Monday morning, there was a town hall event held by Bernie Sanders’ campaign in Iowa Falls, Iowa.
A week before the Iowa caucuses launch the nominating process, Clinton is working to link her campaign more closely to the president and garner more support from his backers. Mr Sanders has gone a step further, block-booking fleets of rental cars and buses as part of his “Go Home for Bernie” drive to persuade college students to leave campus for a day and travel to their homes to vote and organise others to vote, which may be in conservative-leaning counties where he has less of a natural advantage.
When asked if Sanders reminded Obama of himself before his first term, in 2008, the president dismisses the comparison: “I don’t think that’s true”.
“I know both of the Democrats”, Clinton says with a knowing smile.
“We are going to have voter’s questions as opposed to pundits questions… he really connects with people in a very personal way”.
The Iowa contest is particularly important to Clinton, who lost the state in 2008, setting in motion Obama’s path to the White House.
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So far, Clinton has lined up a who’s who of SC endorsements, including two former governors, and about two dozen prominent African American lawmakers.
