Joked moderator Rachel Maddow after that sharp exchange, “Obviously we touched a nerve”. The top two Democrats were face-to-face for the last time before the New Hampshire Primary.
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The New York Times’ lede: “In a caustic debate on Thursday night, Hillary Clinton accused Senator Bernie Sanders of leveling “attacks by insinuation and innuendo” against her integrity and her credentials as a progressive by portraying her as beholden to wealthy interests and corporations”.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are now virtually tied nationally, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Friday.
On foreign policy, Sanders and Clinton agree: She has more experience.
The poll also found that Sanders would fare better than Clinton in hypothetical general-election match-ups against Republican candidates Marco Rubio and Donald Trump.
“I am exhausted of the attacks on Hillary Clinton’s integrity”.
Asked if she would release transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street interests and others, Clinton was noncommittal ” “I’ll look into it”. But she will struggle with the Democratic electorate, especially young people, if she continues to equivocate on the measure of blame the financialization of our economy-which does transcend Wall Street, as she rightly says-deserves in rigging our dangerously unequal economy.
The two renewed their running debate over who is the real progressive, with Clinton accusing Sanders of quoting her selectively to diminish her credentials.
The dramatic national tightening comes after Monday’s Iowa caucuses in which Sanders lost to Clinton by a 0.2 percent margin, the closest race in the history of the Iowa Democratic caucuses, notes MSNBC.
“I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, who are not all that enamored with the establishment”, he said. Mocking Sanders’s approach as focusing on “one street” is a political mistake, and may be a substantive one, too.
But there is uncertainty about whether the performance will impact polls in the first in the nation primary state, where Clinton is behind by anywhere between 20 and 30 percentage points. “I’m so much into this, into New Hampshire, that I just – I don’t care about that anymore”, he told CNN Thursday in Manchester, New Hampshire, five days before the Feb 9 primary contest there. He’s tied with Rubio with each of them getting support from 43 percent of those polled.
This was the first month in the 2016 race in which Sanders surpassed Clinton in financial contributions.
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Jeb Bush, his campaign lagging, brought in mom Barbara Bush who once suggested the former Florida governor shouldn’t run because the country has “had enough Bushes”.
