A Saturday poll by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics found Clinton with a 3 point lead over Sanders, well within the survey’s margin or error.
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The DNC said it will sanction Thursday’s debate, as well as three additional debates in the following months, but will wait until after the Iowa caucuses Monday to iron out the details.
There is no sense of worry in Hillary Clinton or her campaign aides a day before Iowans decide who to caucus for on Monday night.
Iowa Republican caucus-goers are deeply unhappy with how the federal government is working, and half wanted a political outsider as the party’s nominee for president, according to entrance poll interviews of those arriving at caucus sites.
A surge in support for Mr Sanders at this stage could seriously undermine Mrs. Clinton’s aspirations for success, and release yet more funding and support for a more liberal Democratic vision. For the Democrats Iowa is the battleground for Hillary Clinton versus Bernie Sanders, with each candidate readying their supporters and honing their attacks.
It was by far the largest and loudest crowd of recent Hillary Clinton events, and after her husband left the stage she delivered a peppier, more partisan version of her regular stump speech. “Let’s not go around distorting a record that I am very proud of”. “We were concerned that this would have been the first time in 32 years without a Democratic debate before the New Hampshire primary”.
The Republican side is not surprising at all, as controversial magnet and outspoken Trump really got people talking about him as he captured 50 percent, compared to Cruz’s 23 percent and Paul’s 11 percent.
“When we started this campaign here in Iowa, we were 50 or 60 points behind Secretary Clinton”, Sanders said.
The town hall will take place just two days after the Iowa caucuses, which the latest polling shows is a tight race between Clinton and Sanders. The Donald came in with a distant second with 10,704 new followers, followed by Clinton with 6,210.
In perhaps his most pointed critique, Sanders then asserted that Clinton only came out against the TPP “kicking and screaming”, but then asked: “Where were you on all of the other trade agreements?”
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“I love you guys too”, she told several hundred people in Dubuque on Friday.
