Backers of the two Democrats led dueling chants of, “I-O-W-A” Martin O’Malley (or Hillary Clinton) ‘all the way!’ .
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As they simply chanted the Maryland Democrat’s last name, their cries were interrupted by Clinton supporters, yelling, ‘Madame President’.
“But here’s what I won’t do: I won’t get down in the mud with them. We can’t let them pull that same trick again”. What I intend to do as a candidate for president is to go to as many forums as I can.
“I learned that from my mother”, she said.
Instead she delivered the sort of rip-roaring speech that is needed, if she is to allay her slow slide in the polls, and will have her campaign aides sleeping more soundly in their beds. Her remarks came amid a federal investigation into the use of the private server and whether classified information was emailed from her private account.
Turning to her email controversies, Clinton said she would “do my part to provide transparency to Americans – that’s why I’m insisting 55,000 pages of my emails be published as soon as possible” and turned over the server.
“Early childhood and the environment and worldwide affairs”, she said.
The former Secretary of State was the first to take the stage.
The crowd had crammed into the Surf Ballroom, which became a rock “n” roll landmark on “The Day the Music Died” – when, after a 1959 performance there, musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were killed in a plane crash. Bernie Sanders, who has gained steam as a more liberal alternative to Clinton, received loud cheers when he pointed to his opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, which has been reviled by environmentalists, and his vote against the Iraq War in the Senate.
Senator Sanders, who follows Clinton in the Iowa polls but recently edged her numbers in New Hampshire, came out with enthusiasm and asked supporters to engage in what he calls a “political revolution”.
Both Obama and the 2016 Democratic front-runner plan to attend Vernon Jordan’s 80th birthday party Saturday night on the swanky Massachusetts island famous as a gathering spot for prominent Democratic figures.
Wilson did not make any visible attempt to take the stage during the Wing Ding event. He touted a progressive record as Baltimore’s mayor and Maryland’s governor, pointing to gun bans, the legalization of same-sex marriage, pro-family policies similar to those Clinton has touted and a state-level “Dream Act” allowing undocumented immigrants brought into the United States as children to stay and receive some benefits. What really got crowd reaction was his talk about a “grassroots” campaign.
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O’Malley argued that Sanders’s populism will not help him win their party’s coronation next election cycle. Their lenses were trained on Clinton, who had taken a seat in the crowd.
