Sanders’ 22-point victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton Tuesday in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary has shifted Sanders’ small-donor fundraising operation into an even higher gear.
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The Clinton campaign has worked since April to court Hispanic voters in Nevada, including holding a round-table discussion in the Las Vegas suburbs at which Clinton appeared alongside the children of unauthorized immigrants, and has promised to go further than Obama to overhaul the immigration system.
Sanders plowed some of his ballooning war chest into additional TV ads in New Hampshire, where he outspent Clinton on the airwaves in the final weeks before beating her resoundingly there.
Now that Iowa and New Hampshire are in the rear-view mirror, the Democratic presidential contest shifts to markedly different terrain in Nevada, where a largely urban and diverse electorate will test the breadth of Bernie Sanders’ appeal and the durability of Hillary Clinton’s coalition. I’d love to support a female candidate for president, but I have to say that some of Clinton’s background as a former First Lady and as Secretary of State leaves me wondering about her consistency and motives on women’s rights, alleviating poverty, and attacking corporate interests. However, after Clinton’s narrow win in Iowa, and now her deafening loss in New Hampshire, it’s apparent that the millennial generation and our wants can’t be brushed aside. Bernie Sanders worked to win over the black and Latino voters who will now be crucial to the outcome of their contest.
“We’re going to do everything we can to make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president, and we’re constantly assessing how best to do that”, said Guy Cecil, chief strategist for Priorities. He says Sanders and his supporters may not be advocating authoritarian rule like the Soviet Union. They are bullies, and they certainly own up to it.
Chelsea Clinton will stump in Boulder and Denver next week.
Superdelegates are party insiders of all sorts – they include state and national elected officials, as well as Democratic National Committee members.
But the Vermont independent said he will not change his tactics on stage as Thursday’s Democratic debate approaches.
She turned to old friends and advisers from the White House years and previous campaigns to help her better frame her candidacy to address voters’ discontent. “It would be great to be able to afford a house and have kids and not be still paying for my loans while I’m trying to get them through school”, said one voter.
Indeed, voters have raised those concerns repeatedly in early voting states.
“Her dishonesty over her email server has turned into a legal problem that keeps bubbling and bubbling and bubbling”, Myers said. Some donors said they would like to see Clinton retool the way she communicates her thinking to voters.
Once seen as an afterthought in the Democratic primary, Sanders took the Granite State in an impressive 60-percent victory over the former secretary of state’s 38.3 percent.
During the 2012 general election, Republican Mitt Romney was viewed as a strong leader and well-qualified to manage the economy.
We became somewhat spoiled in 2008 when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, along with Bill, were in every town and village competing for votes in that year’s primary, including Kokomo.
The Clinton campaign is in a battle for the nomination that it did not expect. But even as she diligently took notes on legal pads and asked probing questions about personal finances, the conversations often felt stilted and contrived.
Clinton is set to campaign with the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, unarmed African-Americans who died in incidents involving law enforcement officers and a neighborhood watch representative, respectively.
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Jeffries said that Sanders has chosen to focus on black issues now that he’s running for president in the “twilight” of his political career.
