Despite a 30 percent-plus lead over Sanders in the summer in many polls, Clinton’s lead has shrunk drastically in recent months as she continues to be dogged by doubts about her candidacy, while Sanders continues to gain strength in key states and across the U.S.
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“It says there’s two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street …”
“One says it’s OK to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do”.
Speaking about his ability to beat Clinton, he said: ‘The newest poll just came out today where I’m beating her easily and substantially. “I have stood up to Wall Street, and I believe that when you have a handful of financial institutions with so much economic and political power, they have got to be broken up”.
Conducted Jan. 7 through Sunday for Bloomberg Politics and the Des Moines Register by Selzer & Co., the Iowa Poll of 503 likely Democratic caucusgoers has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
As polls in the Democratic contest have tightened, the Clinton campaign has criticized Sanders both for middle-class tax increases included in his 2013 bill and for not sharing his updated plan sooner. She has stepped up her criticism of her rival, a self-described democratic socialist, after carefully avoiding that during the campaign.
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”.
“He’s a lot more obsessed with me than I am with him”, Clinton said.
“I love to fast forward through it”, Clinton said of the Republican Debate that aired earlier that night. And also explain why, after this historic achievement of President Obama, we’ve been fighting to get some kind of affordable care since Harry Truman. You see every day this week they’ve done something.
“In an anti-establishment time”, Axelrod said, “you’re essentially branding yourself as the establishment candidate”.
“She’s at her best when she’s fighting for it”, said Maria Cardona, a Clinton supporter who worked for the 2008 campaign.
“We do think it is fair for him to offer contrast on positions and issues between the two candidates”, Weaver added.
Clinton and Sanders have talked about their roles in the civil rights movement and policies that could improve relations between black residents and white police officers as they compete for the black vote.
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“Is that a coincidence, you think?”
