Clinton still has a 2 percent lead over Sanders in the Quinnipiac University poll, released Friday, but that is well within the 4.5 percent margin of error the pollsters allowed.
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He then took aim at Sanders’ frequent campaign stump claim that he does not receive money from super PACs, which have become a target of progressives who support campaign finance reform.
Sanders’ rival Clinton appeared as Val the bartender alongside the cast member Kate McKinnon, who plays Clinton on the show.
“I’ve got their number on all that”, she said of “the Wall Street guys”. Clinton, who beat Barack Obama in New Hampshire eight years ago, is determined to at least narrow the gap before Tuesday’s vote.
“It was a useful exercise for me, because it also enabled me to think through, kind of, where I was in the assessment of what I would do next”, Clinton told MSNBC.
Dean snapped that it’s a “mistake” for Sanders to attack Clinton’s integrity.
The Quinnipiac poll is the first to be released since the Iowa caucuses and could represent a trend which will later be seen in more mainstream polls, according to CNN.
“Honestly, Senator Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment”, Clinton snarked.
The tone turned as Sanders once again questioned whether Clinton was truly a progressive and called her part of the establishment for raising money from Wall Street, drug companies “and other special interests”.
“I don’t think voters are interested in the transcripts of her speeches”, said Joel Benenson, speaking at a Wall Street Journal media breakfast in Manchester.
“Let’s ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there’s nothing the government can do to stop it”, Sanders said.
She acknowledged that the answer she gave about her paid speeches before big banks during a Wednesday town hall – that she took hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs because they’d offered it – may not have served her well.
Sanders’s platform has mainly been enveloped by the domestic economy and Wall Street.
Aiming to score a point five days before the important New Hampshire primary, Clinton questioned whether the Vermont Senator’s ambitious proposals were viable.
Now, having eked out a win in Iowa, it’s New Hampshire she could lose.
Sanders has a big lead in New Hampshire polls, but he was eager to lower expectations for his finish there, casting himself as an underdog.
“Well, we’re talking about it because Bernie Sanders has made it a campaign issue, and he is her only opponent”, Mitchell said.
“Senator Sanders has said he wants to run a positive campaign”. “A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS”, she said, referring to Sanders’ critique of her Iraq War support. But Sanders’ issues so dominated the debate that she never had a chance to use it.
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The New York Times’ Amy Chozick notes however that it was an uncomfortable night for the former secretary of state and that Mr. Sanders’ challenge has framed much of the narrative in the campaign so far.
