Bernie Sanders’ potential upset of Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses is raising alarms for a former strategist to the last candidate to beat her there, Barack Obama.
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A snowfall forecast to start Monday night appeared more likely to hinder the hopefuls in their rush out of Iowa than the voters who will be flocking to the caucuses in the first contest of the presidential campaign.
The poll, widely respected as the most accurate in the state, has Trump leading with 28 percent support, followed by Cruz with 23 percent.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is the top choice of likely caucus-goers, with 45 percent, to 42 percent for Vermont Sen.
Linda Imsland, of Hubbard, said she supports Cruz, during his stop in her town 25 miles north of Ames. At Thursday’s debate, Cruz and Rubio clashed over immigration and other issues, and a new television ad targets Rubio’s past support for Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration legislation.
“This campaign is not about Republicans tearing each other up”, he said. Nine percent said they are still undecided while 30 percent said they can still change their mind.
Still, the sense of Trump’s inevitability has grown, and two-thirds of likely GOP primary voters now say they expect the businessman to win the state’s primary. Marco Rubio of Florida trails at 15 percent, with Ben Carson further back at 10 percent.
“I think it was because he didn’t want his record questioned”, Cruz said.
“We will lose the caucus on Monday night if there is a low voter turnout”, Sanders said.
And Our Principles PAC posted a full-page ad Sunday in the Des Moines Register which claims in part that Trump “has called for universal, single-payer, government-run health insurance”. “I think the race will narrow after a couple states”. The Latino politicians hosted a series of events urging Iowa Latinos to participate in the caucus process on February 1. In an early Democratic presidential debate, he declared that the American people were “sick and tired” of hearing about it.
With that, he tried to set expectations so that if Rubio finishes better than third, it can be proclaimed a great performance and if Cruz doesn’t win, it will be seen as a great failure.
“I just have to point out that the timing and some of the leaks that have led up to it are concerning”, Clinton said on ABC’s “This Week”. She made the trip to the Hawkeye State to knock on doors.
“I see a consistency in him that’s rare in most human beings and politicians”, said Koenig, who performed acoustic versions of Vampire Weekend songs “Saturday” and a duet of “This Land Is Your Land” with Sanders on stage.
Sanders’ campaign sought to claim financial momentum, saying it has raised $20 million in January, largely from small donors, suggesting he will continue to match front-runner Clinton’s vast resources.
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