“While Trump, Clinton and Cruz wallow in a negative favourability swamp, by comparison, Rubio and Sanders are rock stars”, Malloy said.
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It took place in New Hampshire, days before the primary in that small, northeastern state.
Mrs Clinton, 68, is now hoping to shave his New Hampshire lead and regain some momentum going into friendlier territory later this month in Nevada and SC.
“Someone running for president who stands up and says ‘I know who you can blame, blame those Mexicans, blame those Muslims, ‘” she said, in apparent reference to the billionaire businessman.
He told reporters on a conference call that Sanders is a “trustworthy candidate” who has the “best plan” to end mass incarceration and the “courage” to confront “institution racism”. Her Iowa campaign manager, Matt Paul, wrote a post online earlier Friday titled, “Hillary Clinton won Iowa”.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal/ Marist poll released hours before the debate gave Mr Sanders 58 per cent support among likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire and Mrs Clinton 38 per cent. Clinton supporters pointed to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll Friday which pegged Sanders’s lead at just 9 points – a significant, but not insurmountable number – but other polls suggest Sanders has a much larger lead, as The Fix’s Philip Bump pointed out today. Coin flips are not used to decide which candidate wins a state convention delegate or national convention delegate. Clinton and Sanders went head to head on Wall Street money, foreign affairs agenda and the United States education system.
The poll also found that Sanders would fare better than Clinton in hypothetical general-election match-ups against Republican candidates Marco Rubio and Donald Trump.
In fresh evidence of the tightening race, Clinton reported that her campaign had raised $15 million in January – $5 million less than Sanders and the first time she’s been outraised by her opponent. For Clinton, who revived her campaign here in 2008 after a bruising Iowa loss, the final sprint in New Hampshire offered an unpleasant reckoning with reality: Once again, the former first lady is locked in a bona fide contest for a nomination most Democrats had thought was hers for the taking.
The change acknowledges the need to reach out to Sanders’ backers and comes at the same time that Clinton is calling for unity within the party and telling voters that the most important thing is that they beat Republicans in November. Sanders countered that Clinton “does represent the establishment”. Before New Hampshire votes, the Republicans planned one last debate showdown on Saturday.
“I never sent or received any classified material”, she said.
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As for Sanders, he said he will not politicize the issue.
