Sanders, an independent senator from neighboring Vermont, is leading Clinton substantially in New Hampshire, the first primary state, which votes on Tuesday.
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The presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders is establishing offices across the state while Hillary Clinton has a stark advantage for Michigan’s presidential primary in the latest poll.
“I am exhausted of the attacks on Hillary Clinton’s integrity”, he said.
But Sanders renewed his attacks on Clinton for her Senate vote to authorise the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which she has since called a mistake.
In fresh evidence of the tightening race, Clinton reported that her campaign had raised $15 million in January – $5 million less than Sanders and the first time she’s been outraised by her opponent.
Sanders didn’t back down, pointing out the millions that Clinton has collected from financial interests in speaking fees and campaign contributions over the decades. That issue continued to put Clinton on the defensive, including over $675,000 she received for three speeches to Goldman Sachs after resigning as secretary of State.
Clinton retorted: “A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS”.
Like 2008, Hillary Clinton is finding that frontrunners are inevitable, up until the point that they aren’t.
Sanders said that he would lead a “political revolution” but Clinton questioned his ability to get his proposals through a Republican-led Congress.
Clinton supporters have consoled themselves that, Iowa and New Hampshire notwithstanding, Hillary was better positioned nationally against Sanders for the nomination.
“Wall Street is an entity of unbelievable economic and political power”, Sanders said. Dean said. “I don’t hear anybody asking Bernie Sanders for his transcripts for some speech he made with a labor union”. She would go after “a broader target list” as president, including oil and pharmaceutical companies. “I’m so much into this, into New Hampshire, that I just – I don’t care about that anymore”, he told CNN Thursday in Manchester, New Hampshire, five days before the Feb 9 primary contest there. Clinton’s team was stunned by Sanders’ near-victory in Iowa.
Clinton further defended herself against concerns that her use of a private email server as secretary of state would result in more serious charges against her. “I am 100 percent confident”, she said.
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“We didn’t get to talk about the continuing struggles that Americans face with racism, with sexism, with discrimination against the LGBT community, with New Americans, with people with disabilities”, the former secretary of State was quoted as saying. “If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior”.
