This development, underscored by a CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday that showed Sanders leading Clinton by 27 percentage points in New Hampshire, has many in Clinton’s campaign now feeling an Iowa victory is needed to thwart Sanders’ unexpected rise from a self-described democratic socialist senator from Vermont to credible presidential challenger. Now, it’s Vermont Sen.
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Sanders also has astonishingly high favorability ratings among New Hampshire’s Democratic primary voters, and is broadly seen as the candidate with the “personal characteristics and qualities a president should have”.
“This is a woman that, from Day 1, I said, ‘If I ever do this, I have to get her support, ‘ ” he said.
Clinton said she has learned from 2008, not just tactically, but about herself.
Poll by poll, Sanders is emerging as the left’s very own Trump – a rabble-rouser who eschews white papers and pragmatism for visionary pronouncements and unrealistic ideas.
It was the latest volley in a Democratic race that has become increasingly heated in recent days as Sanders challenges Clinton’s lead in Iowa.
“The Sanders argument falls apart when the GOP spokesman is trying to help him and the Republicans run ads trying to stop Hillary Clinton in the primary”.
Less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Clinton is now facing the possibility that Sanders could win the first two states in the nominating contest, something that would have been considered outrageous months ago.
Following up on their debate clash Sunday night, Speaking on MSNBC Tuesday night, Sanders hit Clinton for belonging to the party establishment, suggesting recent endorsements of her by Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro Choice America and the Human Rights Campaign reflect loyalty, not progressive values. Yes, Sanders now has a campaign bus – it’s blue, emblazoned with his slogan “A Future to Believe In”.
“Look, I’m going to do well and hopefully not win because of establishment support”.
“Jim Crow and its legacy were not merely problems of disproportionate poverty”, Coates writes.
The criticism coming from liberal intellectuals dovetails with Clinton’s criticism of Sanders as a candidate without a broad base of experience and expertise-her campaign is circulating a letter Tuesday from 10 diplomats that knock his ability to handle national security and ISIS. “If that’s what you want, you should vote for John Kasich”.
“The race is tightening”, a top Democratic strategist unaffiliated with any 2016 campaign told Business Insider last week. In addition to his shots at Clinton’s evaporating inevitability, he relishes pointing out the big-money speaking fees Clinton received from Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street giant that’s a frequent villain in Sanders’ speeches. “It was nothing like what I’ve seen in the past”.
“Everyone wants to say he is not Obama, he is not good-looking or charismatic or a great speaker like Obama, but there is a fraying of confidence toward traditional leaders and everyone is ignoring it and praying that it goes away”, Kofinis said. Sanders’ clashes with the Democratic National Committee – from the inconvenient weekend scheduling of the debates to temporarily cutting off access to the DNC’s voter database – have done little to blunt his support.
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But much like the 2008 election where a fresh-faced senator touted his opposition against the war in Iraq, Sanders reminded the audience of Clinton’s voting record on the matter, saying that she dutifully listened to Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
