The Democratic race has become increasingly heated in recent days as Sanders challenges Clinton’s lead in Iowa.
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But the Vermont senator’s support rests heavily on groups whose participation in New Hampshire primaries is less reliable – notably younger voters and those who aren’t registered Democrats. “And we are concerned that Senator Sanders has not thought throughthese crucial national security issues that can have profound consequences for our security”.
Still, they gained respect for her during her tenure as secretary of state and see her as the Democrat most likely to protect Obama’s domestic and foreign policy legacy. In the new poll, Clinton maintains a broad lead over Sanders as the more trusted candidate when it comes to ISIS, 55% Clinton to 26% Sanders, about the same as in early December.
But she said Sanders’ record showed a more lenient attitude toward the demands of the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby. “I want us to defend and build on the Affordable Care Act and improve it”, Clinton concluded.
The poll, conducted mostly before the Democratic presidential debate on Sunday, gives Sanders a notably larger lead in the Granite State than other recent surveys, many of which have found Sanders beating Clinton by somewhere between 6 points and 14 points.
“While Senator Sanders tries to make a case on electability based on meaningless polls, Republicans and their super PACs have made clear the candidate they’re actually afraid to face”, said Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri. Sanders is polling at 36 percent while former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is flailing with an abysmal one percent of the party vote.
Clinton is now being bested by rival Bernie Sanders by 27 points, according to the new WMUR/CNN poll, which came out this afternoon.
Sanders favorability among Democratic voters also remains “astonishingly high”, the poll found.
Sanders’s political “revolution” has kept Clinton on her toes. Al Franken, who endorsed Clinton over his Senate colleague Sanders.
“If you looked at the Republican debate, I would think it was not very personal at all”.
Clinton is the presumptive favorite again for what she described in her opening debate statement as “the hardest job in the world”.
Clinton also continues to lose ground with female voters, with Sanders cutting her lead in that demographic from 45 points down to 19 points.
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The next day, Bill Clinton was on the stump, campaigning at three stops near the Vermont border, which ABC News pointed out is an area where Sanders is seeing a lot of support.
