More Facebook and Twitter users were “feeling the Bern” following Sunday night’s debate between Democratic presidential candidates. ABC’s Cecilia Vega on the campaign for us.
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Whether it is Fox News or MSNBC, corporate media only covers a story when they smell blood, which is one of the reasons why Senator Bernie Sanders has previously seen so little coverage in mainstream news. “Today, the inevitable candidate does not look so inevitable as she did eight and a half months ago”, said the Vermont Senator.
The crowd roared in support.
Hillary Clinton must be feeling the Bern after a new poll placed Bernie Sanders ahead of her in the New Hampshire primary by 27 points.
“While Sen. Sanders tries to make a case on electability based on meaningless polls, Republicans and their super PACs have made clear the candidate they’re actually afraid to face”, said Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s communications director.
There hasn’t been much empirical evidence either way for the simple reason that very little polling has been done in the mostly southern and heavily African-American states that will begin weighing in once the cheering’s over in New Hampshire (there’s one state, Nevada, with significant Latino as well as African-American Democratic voters holding a caucus on February 20, a week before SC holds its primary).
On the stump, Sanders connects with the frustrations of liberal voters who are exhausted of Washington politicians and establishment politics in the same way that GOP front-runner Donald Trump connects with those on the right.
Some Democratic strategists say that Clinton’s recent headline-grabbing attacks on Sanders on issues such as guns, healthcare, and general election viability demonstrate the seriousness with which the campaign now takes Sanders.
Sanders has accused the former first lady of having cozied up to billionaires and said she would not be tough enough on Wall Street banks.
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“I don’t represent the billionaire class; I never have. But it’s just a poll and we take nothing for granted”, Sanders’s campaign manager Jeff Weaver said in a statement. On Sunday she added that the plan would shred President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which has helped 19 million new people get health insurance. Specifically, Clinton cited Sanders votes against the Brady Bill, votes for the “Charleston Loophole” that allows guns to be bought before a background check has been completed, and liability immunity for gun shop owners. The Republican National Committee blasted the Democrats for failing to focus enough on foreign issues. “He’s not bought and paid for”.
