A Quinnipiac University poll early this month found Sanders trailing Clinton by an insignificant 2 percentage points among moderate and conservative Democrats, a sharp shift from Clinton’s 24 percentage-point lead among this group in December.
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This photo provided by NBC shows, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, in an interview with host Jimmy Fallon during taping of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”, on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in NY. Gun control has emerged as a central theme in the race, with Clinton citing it as one of the major differences between the candidates. Polls show that the Iowa caucus is a tossup and that Sanders is ahead in the New Hampshire primary. She has an edge in Nevada, the first caucus state with a significant segment of Latino voters, and in SC, where black voters make up more than half of the electorate.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ campaign is fundraising off a report that an ally of rival Hillary Clinton plans to demand Sanders release his medical records.
To put the endorsement into context, this is only the third time that the liberal magazine has endorsed a candidate for presidency: the previous two times being its bid to support Jesse Jackson in 1988, followed by its support for Barack Obama in 2008.
“We need a president a Democratic president to succeed President Obama who has what it takes to get the job done”, she said. She added that the charges were “actually founded in what we can discern about what he would do” as president.
“What we must do is bring this country together around those provisions that the vast majority of people support”, he said. But the Clinton campaign has a fight on its hands-and anything smacking of politics-as-usual is more likely to lose votes than win them.
Sanders has declined to call the 2005 vote a mistake a number of times, citing the fact that he worries about the impact rescinding immunity would have on small, family-owned gun shops.
Sanders aides say the decision is not a flip-flop, arguing that he backed the 2005 law because of provisions that require child safety locks on guns and ban armor-piercing ammunition.
“I’m pleased that this legislation is being introduced”, Sanders said of Sen. That contradicted what Sanders had told CNN the night before and the senator doubled down on his pledge to release his health care plan last night.
Beyond the first two states, Clinton still has leads with non-white voters, who are critical to Clinton’s “firewall” in the South. But that firewall might not look as insurmountable if she loses one or both of these first crucial contests. They appeared together at a Des Moines high school Saturday night before at least 500 people, encouraging people to caucus.
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Clinton campaign chairman John Poesta said the team was pleased with the change, but that it was a flip-flop.
