“What we must do is bring this country together around those provisions that the vast majority of people support”, he said. “It’s a race where Hillary Clinton has significant advantages in the long run”.
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Sanders has defended his vote for the act, saying that while he supported some parts of the law, particularly the protections it offers rural mom-and-pop gun sellers, he was willing to take a look at the more controversial parts. Bernie Sanders for Democrats’ support in the February 1 Iowa caucuses.
“Will they like me? I think that’s all for the good”, Clinton added. But Brock’s group is allowed to coordinate directly with the Clinton campaign and has mobilized against Sanders before, often doing the messy work that the Clinton team avoids doing itself. In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders is surging. I am with him.
Clinton spoke after spending much of the week criticizing Sanders’s 2005 vote protecting gun manufacturers from legal liability, questioning the feasibility of his plan for single-payer health care, and demanding that he explain how he’ll pay for trillions of dollars of new spending.
“Don’t talk to me about standing up to corporate interests and big powers”, Clinton said of Sanders in Ames. For Clinton, it wasn’t supposed to be this way against a septuagenarian, self-identified democratic socialist who began his campaign with no national profile and no financial network. In an interview with CBS in September, Clinton said she “had no interest” in attacking Sanders. By contrast, Hillary Clinton has been stressing her electability and questioning the costs of Sanders’ ideas.
“The challenge of this election is to disprove the skeptics who believe (young people) don’t vote”, Tad Devine, Sanders’ senior adviser, told USA Today. “If we do a classic comparative ad, it’s over”.
Sanders has said he voted against the 2005 legislation out of concern about its impact on such “mom-and-pop” operations in states like Vermont.
Or, more simply, as Bernie Sanders himself has said, “Don’t underestimate me”.
RealClear Politics had Sanders up by 6.2 percentage points in New Hampshire, and Clinton up by 4 percentage points in Iowa on its website Saturday. “It’s not a fly-by-night thing”, Grant Woodard, a Des Moines lawyer said. “He is resonating in terms of the issues, but people have to know you and feel you”.
Before Trump accused Clinton of being the real sexist in December, her lead over Sanders averaged 24 points in 10 national polls. “Connecticut is the ATM that you hit just before you get to New Hampshire on the way up there”. Barack Obama came from behind to defeat Clinton, who was heavily favored to win at the outset of the race.
“First of all his record goes all the way back to 1981, and he’s never tried to check the polls first, then said what he thinks”, Andrews said. She then invited them onto a conference call with Sanders the next day.
“They’re very afraid of a repeat in 2008 and they’re getting very aggressive”, said Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver. “I have witnessed Sen”.
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Expect a great deal of discussion on the candidates’ health care positions at the debate. How will the candidates differentiate themselves on these problems?
