For Democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could say she won the state, though she had only 49.9 percent of statewide delegate equivalents (bringing to mind her husband’s two presidential wins with less than 50 percent of the popular vote).
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The real estate mogul argued for a “new election” or for the Texas senator’s results to be “nullified”.
Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!
Sanders, an independent USA senator from Vermont who is running as a democratic socialist, is polling more than 15 points ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire, but is trailing her nationally by roughly the same amount.
Sanders set the battle lines for the impending clash in a series of pointed tweets Wednesday, slamming Clinton’s self-declared progressivism as a matter of political expediency and an attempt to co-opt a movement at odds with her record on the Keystone pipeline and history of taking Wall Street’s money.
“I am a little bit amazed that Secretary Clinton does not want to have a debate in the state that she represented”, said Sanders. “That’s just not progressive”.
Clinton says that is a dirty trick created by those opposed to her becoming president.
“I mean, we are liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark”. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night – just barely. “I know where I stand”. It will take place at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, and will air on MSNBC.
A member of the audience asked Clinton about the former and what the former NY senator had learnt.
In an interview with CNN, Sanders accused Clinton of being a progressive only “on some days”. “I hope we keep it on the issues”. I’m out here every day saying I’m going to shut them down, I’m going after them, and I’m going to jail them if they should be jailed.
Clinton called the comments “kind of a low blow”. Here are the top moments. And then, I guess, she is not a progressive.
Sanders elaborated at the town hall. That’s despite a press release before the news conference that cited Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount as evidence that “how a person conducts his life or campaign is an indication of who he is”. “Some of my best friends are moderates”, he said.
Polls in New Hampshire suggest the primary will not be as close as the nail-biting Democratic caucuses in Iowa.
“We are in this until the convention”, Sanders told reporters on Tuesday. The reason: Theirs is a fight for the Democratic Party’s core liberal voters.
In Iowa, Sanders’ appeal with young voters was evident: More than 8 in 10 Democratic caucus-goers under 30 came to support him, as did almost 6 in 10 of those between ages 30 and 44, according to surveys at the precincts.
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Clinton believes in change through incremental steps: toughening financial regulation, building on Obamacare, expanding access to scholarships and grants without making college free for everyone. I’m going to jail them if they should be jailed.
