“There are those who say we can not defeat a corrupt political system and fix a rigged economy”, Sanders says in the ad, which begins airing tomorrow. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks at a campaign event, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, in Iowa Falls, Iowa. For Sanders, that experience is both sobering and encouraging: While it attests that his current lead in New Hampshire should be taken with a grain of salt, it also demonstrates that if he were to lose Iowa to Clinton, he may yet prevail in New Hampshire.
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Sanders offered a vigorous performance punctuated by calls for a progressive revolution.
“They throw all this stuff at me, and I’m still standing”, Clinton said. “That’s what Hillary Clinton represents on one level, to voters – that she would be the first female president, and there’s something special in that, especially when it comes to women’s issues”. She claimed that she is divorced and living off of disability checks. “Yes we will”, Sanders said, but added that American families would be better off overall as they would save money on private premiums.
But Brian Fallon, spokesman for the Clinton campaign, made the case on Monday that his boss would make an electability argument, speaking to reservations Democrats may have about Sanders’ capacity to win the election and perform effectively as president.
“I also believe that under her [Clinton’s] climate plan, the planet would literally burn up”, O’Malley said.
While Sanders is calling for sweeping government action to address health care, education and Wall Street reform, the former secretary of state is pitching a more incremental approach that seeks to build off President Barack Obama’s administration. Tensions were high ahead of a CNN town hall forum in Des Moines when they, as well as former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley who is languishing far behind in third place in all the polls, were to be given half an hour each to answer questions from the audience.
“The Democratic party is running a retread from the 90s” between a candidate who is under “serious FBI investigation and an avowed socialist”. I’m not just going to accept the two of them because polls say I should.
“We will raise taxes, yes we will”, Sanders said, delivering a response that pundits quickly suggested would find itself in ads.
When asked whether he sees Sanders’ campaign as comparable to his own 2008 battle against Clinton, a comparison Sanders’ supporters have embraced, Obama wasn’t buying it.
While Clinton has led the Democratic field for months, she’s being challenged anew by Sanders in Iowa, as well as in New Hampshire, which votes second in the primary contest.
“We are touching a nerve with the American people who understand that establishment politics just aren’t bold enough”, Sanders said Monday.
Right now, national polls show us that the two candidates with the most support across the country are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Aldrich said a neurological disorder and joint deterioration prevent her from working and she is trying to get disability benefits.
Your vote is your business, but please, think it through and make up your mind quickly, or you’ll be giving away the hard earned democratic power that you have in your hands. Perhaps her biggest weakness as a candidate is that she generally campaigns in prose.
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Clinton took the criticism in stride, saying that she’s not surprised to hear that many young people don’t trust her because she’s been under attack from Republicans for decades.
