But in recent days, Clinton has urged the party to add the televised forums, and Sanders purportedly has accepted the invitation to debate Thursday in exchange for Clinton agreeing to three more in Spring.
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“It’s virtually tied”, Sanders said, a reasonable summation of polls. The New York Times first reported Sanders’s January fundraising total. Clinton’s campaign requested that one of the additional debates be held in Flint, Michigan, which has been dealing with a crisis involving lead contamination in the city’s water supply. His goal: to ensure precinct captains show up at Monday night’s Iowa caucuses and rally support.
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta responded that there is “nothing worse than a debate about debates” and said the Sanders campaign’s demands had been met. He said they “apparently agreed” to May 24 in California. “What’s the matter with Brooklyn?”
That heat was coming from Republicans; Sanders earlier declared the email flap a nonissue in his mind. but it has still raised questions among voters about Clinton’s honesty and integrity.
“Now they refuse to take yes for an answer, apparently because they are intent on avoiding a debate in New Hampshire”.
Already scheduled are debates in Wisconsin on February 11 and Florida on March 9.
“I can’t keep up with what the Clinton campaign does”, Sanders said, before instead choosing to criticize the Clinton campaign over ads suggesting that Sanders attacked Planned Parenthood – whom Sanders qualified as the “establishment” recently despite his decisively pro-abortion rights record in the Senate.
Sanders, a senator from Vermont, had previously refrained from invoking the controversy over Clinton’s controversial use of a private email account on a private server.
In Iowa, Sanders and Clinton are locked in a statistical dead heat, with Clinton earning 45 percent support of likely caucus-goers compared with 42 percent for Sanders, according to a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg politics.
Bernie Sanders implored Iowa supporters Saturday to get on their feet in two days and turn their monthslong infatuation with his upstart campaign into actual votes – a call to action echoed by Democratic and Republican hopefuls in a frenzied weekend prelude to the first presidential contest of the 2016 race. “We will win the caucus on Monday night if there is a large voter turnout”.
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Clinton is leading among Democrats who say that they are “definitely” going to caucus, the poll found. Sanders is up with Democrats who say they’ll “probably” caucus on Monday.
