“I don’t pay attention to the polls”, Clinton insisted, even as she pushes back and rolls out some impressive firepower.
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Many said the success of the Sanders campaign comes as a surprise.
The tightening race – and Sanders’s slim lead in New Hampshire – has been reflected in more antagonistic campaign rhetoric.
Sanders, meanwhile, has wrestled with an earlier campaign pledge not to run negative ads against Clinton, raising the question of what counts as an attack ad. “One says it’s OK to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do”.
With less than three weeks until ballots are cast in the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton and Sen.
Sanders said that under his plan the typical family would save thousands of dollars a year in out-of-pocket health-care costs because they would no longer pay private insurance premiums, deductibles or co-payments.
While Sanders’ laser-like focus on economic inequality has been a constant theme of his career, his concern about wages has, at times, placed him on the opposite side of other Democratic priorities. Ted Kennedy from advancing to a vote, citing concerns that foreign guest worker programs would drive down wages and benefits for US employees.
Sanders aides said he voted against the legislation because it “lacked badly needed protections for immigrant workers”, noting that it was also opposed by Hispanic advocacy groups.
Sanders, an independent senator, says his rival is getting “very nervous” about his success in the polls, which reflect growing enthusiasm among young voters for the self-described democratic socialist.
That same March 2003 resolution also praised President George W. Bush for his “firm leadership and decisive action in the conduct of military operations in Iraq”. That’s one reason that Hillary Clinton has received support from that sector. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) single payer health care plan would “end all the kinds of health care we know”.
But Clinton became serious on the subject of the presidency.
Asked when he would release details of how his plan would be paid for, Sanders first said, “the truth is we already have a plan”, referencing his 2013 proposal for expanding Medicare, but later said, “certainly before Iowa”.
“She’s at her best when she’s fighting for it”, said Maria Cardona, a Clinton supporter who worked for the 2008 campaign.
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On health care, an issue that has dominated the Democratic primary in recent days, Clinton hoped to convince Democrats that Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is not feasible and warned it would destroy the status quo.
