“Clinton’s attacks on a Democratic Party rival over universal health care marks a very public flip flop by her and her campaign”, Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs wrote today.
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As Katrina vanden Heuvel has written, “The conventional wisdom is that [Hillary] Clinton benefits as voters grow more concerned about national security and terrorism”.
The Clinton campaign also held a conference call with reporters to ramp up the pressure on how the proposal would raise taxes. And the reason is simple: Virtually no one in the punditry universe believes that Sanders can win the nomination. In the same poll a month earlier, she was running away with the Democratic presidential primary with 52 percent to Sanders’ 32 percent.
Clinton’s campaign appears confident that Sanders will not be able to conjure up a similar brand of political magic this time around.
Warren has said previously she expects to give an endorsement, but it’s unclear when it will come. “She is now using the same Karl Rove tactics she once decried”.
Who wins this fight, if there is even a clear victor, will largely be determined on who wins the framing of it.
As part of her newly found opposition to single-payer on the merits, Hillary Clinton’s attacks on Sanders’ health care plan mischaracterize what he is proposing.
“What he’s promising right off the bat are tax increases that would adversely impact the take home pay”, Fallon said.
“Secretary Clinton, obviously now, sees herself in trouble”, Sanders said, pointing to his recent surge in polls. The fact sheet did not include Sanders’ healthcare plan, which Sanders says will ultimately save middle class taxpayers money. “And he had promised that he would roll out his tax plans before the Iowa caucus on February 1. Now we are in the sprint to the finish line”, she said.
Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, isn’t saying when those numbers will be released. “I feel that he is concerned with getting our country on track and not getting us in more wars”.
On Monday, Sanders dug up a two-year-old tweet from John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, that backed a single-payer healthcare system.
The former attorney general will campaign for Clinton in an upcoming swing to SC, accompanying her to a state Democratic Party dinner Saturday and a Sunday debate sponsored by NBC News and the Congressional Black Caucus.
The avuncular Vermonter often has an air of a disheveled professor when he preaches his message about income inequality, and the need to rein in Wall Street and expand health care to all Americans.
Polls show that both issues are important to black voters. “Clinton support also tumbled among suburban voters, dropping to 39 percent from last a month’s 50 percent”.
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Hillary Clinton speaks at the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum on October 23, 2015, in Washington, D.C. And while Clinton will probably never invoke the “S” word Republicans will have no qualms going after Sanders’ democratic socialism. You know what, I have a different rhythm about how a campaign goes and maybe it’s based on my experience compared to his.
