Sanders and his wife arrived to the White House earlier Wednesday ahead of the scheduled meeting with the president.
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Rejecting Mrs Clinton’s charges that he is not prepared to be commander-in- chief, Mr Sanders aimed to show he was more closely aligned with the Democratic base and to contrast his positions with Mrs Clinton’s on issues on which she has pivoted. The president this week declared bluntly he doesn’t see Sanders’ upstart campaign as a reboot of his own battle against Clinton in 2008.
“I think my way – a hard, patient, persistent way – is the best”, Clinton said Monday during a town hall in Knoxville, Iowa. In the interview, Obama enthusiastically praised Clinton as a rival, a diplomat and a friend, declaring her experience made her as prepared as anyone could be on the first day of her presidency. In 2008, Clinton led the race until the end when then-Sen.
“It seems like in every caucus, there’s always the unique, there’s the new”, said Harkin, who beat Bill Clinton in 1992 to win Iowa.
As for Obama, it’s pretty clear his choice for an heir is his former secretary of state.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Vermont Sen. “When you’re in the White House, you can not pick the issues you want to work on”, she told the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines on Monday. Both parties were bracing for nail-biting caucuses that will determine which of their two leading candidates will carry the whiff of victory into New Hampshire and beyond.
They join in chants while waiting in the cold and snow to go through security checks: “It’s time, it’s time, it’s time for a woman in the White House!” Mrs Clinton blamed the attacks she has endured throughout her career. And they nod approvingly throughout her remarks as she ticks through economic and foreign policy proposals. “I feel like my future and the future of my children and other people’s children, only her hands are going to be able to take care of it”.
Supporters suggest such criticism is mainly the carping of political foes. “He started with Mexicans, he’s now with Muslims”, she said. “She’s been brilliant and she’s been accused of a lot of untrustworthy behavior”.
“Look, I’ve gotten to know Hillary Clinton really well, and she is a good, smart, tough person who cares deeply about this country”, Obama said in an interview with Politico’s Glenn Thrush, which was conducted last Friday and published on Monday.
“Bernie is not afraid to say what many Americans today think, but many politicians are scared to say”, she said.
On the Democratic side, Obama has sought to avoid showing explicit favoritism in the primary. I knew her before you knew her, before she was Elizabeth Warren. In part to try to prevent either of these things from happening, a number of former Obama Administration officials are working for the Clinton campaign.
The poll also shows Clinton’s supporters would be more welcoming of Sanders as the eventual nominee, as 43 percent say they would be satisfied with his nomination.
Mr Trump’s support stands at 41 per cent, according to the latest CNN/ORC poll. There were even a smattering of the Black Lives Matter protests that disrupted his presidential campaign in its earliest days.
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Clinton has in the past stated she suffers from hypothyroidism and seasonal allergies, and takes blood thinners after a clot was found in her head in 2012.
