Sanders, in the 30-second-long television ad which will air in Iowa and New Hampshire, indirectly contrasts his overhaul plan to Clinton’s, saying “there are two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street”. In a Wednesday conference call with reporters, the Clinton campaign pointed out that while Sanders told CNN Tuesday night he would “absolutely” outline funding for his health care plan before the Iowa caucus, the Vermont senator’s campaign manager Jeff Weaver said this week that Sanders would “not necessarily” release those details by February 1. “My plan: break up the big banks, close the tax loopholes and make them pay their fair share”.
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In the ad, Mr. Sanders revisits the themes he excoriated Ms. Clinton over in a Wall Street reform speech he delivered in Manhattan last week. In 2008, she decisively lost black voters to Obama, but in this cycle it is Sanders who is weak with non-whites, and who will therefore likely suffer as the campaign moves out of heavily-white Iowa and New Hampshire.
“He’s here for the people, I think we need some compassion in America right now”, said Norwich, VT resident Lulu Fairclough-Stewart. Clinton changes strategy National polls have shown Clinton the country’s top diplomat during President Barack Obama’s first term from 2009 to 2013 with a commanding lead over Sanders.
In an interview with Rachel Maddow airing Thursday evening, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doubled-down on an attack that 2016 rival Sen.
Sanders then started to turn his differences with Clinton, particularly on the consistency of the positions they have held, as a blunt object to hit her with.
For his part, Sanders says Clinton’s attacks are off-base and she’s flailing as polls show him leading in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Clinton is also suggesting that Sanders, who backs a single-payer health care system and free tuition at public colleges and universities, is pitching policies that are unachievable in a divided government. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the race for the Democratic nomination.
But does that mean Sanders’ campaign won’t go after Clinton on issues they think she is weak on?
Steve Rabinowitz, who runs a Washington communications firm and helped launch Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary, a pro-Clinton fundraising group, said an early Sanders win could capture younger Jewish voters, but that the important community of Jewish donors remains committed to Clinton.
Sanders responded by called Clinton “scared” and acting in self-defense.
Since the beginning of the campaign, Republican candidates have invoked the name of Hillary Clinton when making their case. The magazine, founded more than 150 years ago, has only endorsed candidates during primaries twice before.
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As the race has tightened, the two have stepped up the attacks against each other.
