“I am the only Democratic candidate for president who does not have a super PAC, who does not go to the wallets of investment bankers in order to raise campaign funds”.
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Sanders’ Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has long had Secret Service protection as a former first lady.
Connie McGrane of nearby Lime Springs, said she recently retired as a secretary and that her pick for the caucus “will probably be Hillary”, because “she can hit the ground running, she has experience, won’t waste time-no learning curve”.
The Vermont senator and Democratic socialist said “the eyes of America, in fact much of the world” would be on Iowa, and the state could be a model for the nation and the future of American democracy.
Clinton’s campaign, by contrast, has the advantage among older, more experienced caucus-goers.
Ms. Clinton’s supporters argue that Mr. Obama struggled to pass a more modest agenda than the one Mr. Sanders has outlined, and there is no sign Republicans in the next Congress will be more tractable.
Clinton suggested that Sanders’ platform was based on unrealistic goals, and said she offered the opposite: “the more clear agenda that can actually produce results for people who can’t wait”.
“Now with the problems so serious, we do not have the luxury of on-the-job training”, said Wilensky, a tax attorney. “You fight to the last hour”.
The first votes for the 2016 presidential election will be cast Monday night at the Iowa caucuses, then following at the country’s first presidential primary eight days later in New Hampshire.
“We became close partners and real friends, and I have a high level of commitment to see his accomplishments get recognized”, Clinton said.
Both candidates urge action on climate change, worry about stagnating middle-class wages, and warn that a Republican president would undermine Mr. Obama’s legacy. “I mean, great – I want all that, too”. Instead, they will enter full get-out-the-caucus mode – dispatching herds of volunteers to knock on doors, deliver door-hangers and find ways to drive people to their local precincts if they can’t drive themselves. Just days before the first Americans start picking the parties’ nominees, Trump holds a commanding lead in the national polls in the election to be the Republican Party’s candidate in November. “I am, you know, anxious, if we can get something set up, to be able to be there”.
“We strongly encourage every Democratic candidate to leap at the opportunity to add an additional debate to the absurdly limited official DNC schedule and work to find other opportunities to make the presidential contest the fierce competition of progressive ideas that Democrats deserve”, DFA Executive Director Charles Chamberlain said. Clinton trails Sanders in New Hampshire and wants the proposed debate next Thursday to help her reach undecided voters before the state’s primary on February 9.
Sallee Garst Haerr, an O’Malley precinct captain in Fairfield, has already begun drawing up lists of Sanders and Clinton supporters she hopes she can peel away if O’Malley is only a few supporters short of viability.
“If thousands of people who were not previously involved in the caucuses come out on Monday, we win”. The non-mainstream candidate in the Democratic Party said the middle class is shrinking while most of the country’s income goes to the top one percent.
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“He plans on going after the drug companies, whereas I don’t think she will”, he said.
