Hillary Clinton knows she has a fight on her hands for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Bill Clinton’s almost 50-minute stinging attack at an event in New Hampshire was markedly different from the milder language that he has used to attack the campaign of the Vermont senator until now.
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President Clinton launched his offensive in a speech on Sunday in which he criticized Sanders’ policy proposals, including universal healthcare and free public colleges, as unrealistic. And asked again if Clinton should disavow what Albright and Steinem said. “And they raised a million dollars!”
“I think she’s at her high water mark”, Jealous said of Clinton’s current poll numbers, especially in the South and among African-American voters.
Former US President Bill Clinton on Sunday unloaded on Sen. A single digit loss would allow Clinton to use the same comeback narrative that Bernie Sanders employed after his near loss in Iowa.
In the stretch run before the New Hampshire primary, the former president accused Sanders’ supporters of slinging vitriol toward Clinton’s female supporters, citing the tale of one female blogger who was bullied online. “A lot of people say you shouldn’t count it for or against her that she’s a woman, but she’s had it count against her her whole life”. Instead, the 69-year-old lashed out at the Sanders campaign for what he described as inaccurate and “sexist” attacks on his wife.
In an interview with News 9, Clinton reflected on her many trips to New Hampshire over the long primary season and talked about the trustworthiness issues raised by her email controversy.
Hillary Clinton is trailing Sanders badly in New Hampshire in recent polling, but is hoping to narrow the lead on Election Day and call it an expectations-surpassing-win.
In 2016, the term “establishment” has come to reflect an insinuation about Hillary Clinton’s character, a way to unfairly impugn her integrity. She also said her plans were more fiscally responsible. She barely eked by Sanders in last week’s Iowa caucuses, winning the pivotal contest by 0.25%, and is virtually certain to lose New Hampshire.
Bill Clinton isn’t the only surrogate who’s stepped up his rhetoric in the closing days. They expected the Clinton campaign machine to show up, they said. “We can’t get in a place where we get so mad we demonize anyone who is against us”.
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“He is a political attack dog and I happen to like Hillary Clinton but I am astounded by some of the people that she has hired including David Brock”, Sanders said on CNN. In an echo of her difficulties against Barack Obama in the 2008 primary, she has faced a passion deficit among younger voters.
