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Bill Clinton: Hillary can reach across the aisle

It will feature Clinton and Sanders as well as former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.

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GOP front-runner Donald Trump has spent weeks criticizing Bill Clinton in his campaign events, calling the former president “one of the great abusers of the world” and “one of the great woman abusers of all time”. He’s been leading in the Granite State for most of the past few months, but his Iowa momentum is more recent – and the unique dynamics of the caucuses could give him an advantage over Clinton.

Bill Clinton may not be the “secret weapon” that Hillary Clinton needs in the US presidential race.

Finally, there’s the core issue motivating Sanders’s campaign and indeed his entire political career – his desire to check the power of the superwealthy and corporations.

Clinton’s troubles, which have anxious many of her supporters, come just as the Democrats prepare to face off Sunday night in their final debate before the February 1 Iowa caucuses and for the first time in 2016.

Hillary Clinton is anxious about Bernie Sanders.

Clinton insists she’s not nervous about her prospects despite tightening polls, but her campaign’s actions in the past two week speak louder than her words.

The latest Fox News Poll showed Clinton with a 15 point lead nationally. But he urged Democrats to choose an experienced candidate with a record of working with rivals on important issues. “Will people in the general election really go with Sanders in terms of his policies his Democratic socialism as opposed to something that might be considered more moderate?”

“What she’s trying to do is cast Bernie as, I don’t want to say a protest candidate, but as a message candidate against someone who is grounded in the reality of governance”, said former Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod. Shirley Ferrara, his wife, said that she would be supporting Hillary. Sanders has ridden an unexpected wave of enthusiasm to consistently edge out Clinton in New Hampshire, and is in a virtual tie with the former secretary of state in Iowa.

The Washington Post’s Philip Bump compared the 2016 and 2008 races and concluded that Clinton was actually doing better in 2008 than she is now. Underneath the photograph, Clinton wrote: “To Bernie Sanders with thanks for your commitment to real healthcare access for all Americans and best wishes – Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1993”. The campaign, savvy as it can be, often seems to be moving in different directions at once, with top aides contradicting each other and even the candidate himself.

After enjoying almost two years’ worth of frontrunner status, Clinton now finds herself neck and neck with Sanders.

“Iowa is critical for Sanders as he’s expected to win New Hampshire so if he does win there, it’s kind of a shrug”, said Hagle. The debate will take place in Charleston, South Carolina, and air on NBC.

There’s no quit in her, President Clinton said, affirming this sentiment as he recited details of his wife’s biography. Clinton’s new critiques, by contrast, are an attempt to make Sanders’s single-payer proposals sound costly and destructive.

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Since then, of course, the Affordable Care Act passed, shepherded by President Barack Obama, who shifted from his initial advocacy for a single-payer plan to saying he would favor one if we were “starting from scratch”, but did not believe the program was feasible in the circumstances.

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