Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is lashing out at Marco Rubio and Donald Trump on immigration while facing New Hampshire voters for the first time since his Iowa caucus victory.
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The 2016 Iowa caucuses are over and Hillary Clinton won.
“I think it’s definitely a wake-up call to the other candidates and to people who doubt him that it’s closer than you think”, says Paige Price, a sophomore at Ball State University in Munice, Ind.
“The debate is on”, he said. “That’s just not progressive”.
“Some days, yes. Except when she announces that she is a proud moderate, and then I guess she is not a progressive”, replied Sanders.
But Clinton’s team clearly sees an opening in Sanders’ comment.
“I’m a progressive who likes to get things done”, Clinton countered at the CNN forum, at which she and Sanders appeared onstage separately.
Even Terry Shumaker, the co-chair of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and an unabashed Clinton supporter, was fawning in his assessment of Sanders, arguing that the senator had “captured the imagination and support of particularly the more idealistic people in the Democratic Party and we have always had a strong, progressive liberal elements within the New Hampshire Democratic Party”.
In Iowa on Monday night, Clinton admitted breathing a “big sigh of relief” after escaping the state she handily lost to Obama in 2008. President Clinton will be back later and Hillary Clinton will be here as well.
Sanders, who trailed Clinton in Iowa by 30 points three months ago, told a raucous crowd chanting “Bernie, Bernie” that his campaign made stunning progress.
“I respect the fact that I have work to do”, said Clinton. “And it basically is practice the discipline of gratitude”, she said.
“I read that parable and there was a line in it that became just a lifeline for me”. She said, however that it is incumbent upon those in the public arena to be “as self-conscious as possible”. Asked why voters thought Clinton was stronger on terrorism, Sanders said it was because of her experience.
“We have had some success, still have some way to go”. It’s set to take place Thursday at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H. It is sponsored by MSNBC and begins at 9 p.m. (ET).
On the stump Wednesday, Clinton sought to frame the race as a choice between one candidate with a record of accomplishments and another offering worthy but unachievable goals.
According to CNN, Sanders said, “you explain to me how a major network on the evening news has 81 minutes of Trump, 20 seconds of Bernie Sanders”.
Her wonky stump speech was still heavily laden with policy, but Clinton offered voters a more nuanced argument for her candidacy, focused on “heart”. “We’re knocking on doors, we are doing outreach in churches and moving around every corner of the state”. But they’re deeply concerned about her struggles with young people, a key part of the coalition that propelled Barack Obama to the White House – and a coalition Clinton hopes to replicate in a general election. Sanders also received Secret Service protection Wednesday for the first time – an indication of his growing viability. And, with double-digit leads in New Hampshire, anything short of a victory next week would be disastrous for his campaign.
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Ronna Romney McDaniel, chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, has accused Clinton of using Flint as a “political prop” to bolster a struggling campaign against Sanders, a democratic socialist from Vermont. “We are going to win some states, we are going to lose some states”, Sanders told reporters on Tuesday.
