Questions about Clinton’s authenticity probably hurt her in Iowa, where the former secretary of state squeaked out a narrow victory over the Vermont senator in Monday’s leadoff caucuses.
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Hillary Clinton is shedding some of the caution that has been a trademark over three decades in public life as she urgently tries to surpass rival Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire.
Sanders has previously attacked Clinton for her supposedly cozy relationship with Wall Street. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign stop at the Franklin Pierce University Fieldhouse, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, in Rindge, N.H.
Campaigning for Sanders in SC on Saturday, Jealous called the Vermont senator “a movement candidate”.
Once president, Obama named Clinton his secretary of state. As a general rule, Clinton’s “vote for me because I’m a woman” theme during this election cycle has always struck me as an incredibly weak argument because it assumes that female voters think only in terms of gender and that they should simply get in line and support Clinton already.
In recent days, she has used the state as a testing ground for new campaign messages targeted at specific groups, with pledges to break “the highest and hardest glass ceiling” and promising young voters that she would “be for them” even if they support Sanders. Sanders’ strength with younger voters only heightens the threat he poses to what was once Clinton’s decisive national lead.
Part of that strategy means cutting into the double-digit advantage that Sanders has enjoyed in New Hampshire for several months.
Mr Lovell, a 17-year-old student from NY and a supporter of Mr Sanders jumped to his feet seized the chance to ask the first question: after all the controversy over Benghazi and her use of a private email server, just why should people – especially young idealistic people – trust her?
Trump said during Saturday night’s ABC Republican debate in New Hampshire that he would reinstate waterboarding if elected and “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding”. I love it because the interactions you have with voters in every setting is so rewarding, and voters in this state take a first, second, third, fourth look at you.
“I want you to know that I am truly glad that you are involved in this process and in the Democratic Party. We will do everything we can, and I think we have tried”. Citing the state’s record of voting for women, including Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Governor Maggie Hassan, who were among the women leaders who joined Clinton on stage, Clinton suggested that an upset might be possible, if Granite State voters focus on her experience and concrete plans. But she said “that’s not the only problem we have in America”, and the nation needed to address “all the barriers that are holding people back”.
The daughter of Eric Garner, a black man who died in 2014 after a white NY police officer put him in a choke hold, is also campaigning on behalf of Sanders in SC.
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“We’re not giving up at all. How it comes out is in the hands of the voters”, said Billy Shaheen, a veteran of multiple New Hampshire campaigns and the husband of Sen.
