Bernie Sanders on Thursday stood by his pledge to outline his health care plan before the Iowa caucuses amid criticism from Hillary Clinton and conflicting statements from within the Vermont senator’s campaign about whether he will meet his own deadline.
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An ad released by Senator Bernie Sanders that condemns the system of legalized bribery that has given Wall Street billionaires unprecedented political influence is triggering a harsh reaction by his principle Democratic rival.
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.
The poll found that 42 percent of likely Democratic caucus attendees support Clinton, while 40 percent favor Sanders.
“What has happened over the last nine months is literally something I never, ever, ever would have dreamed of”, Sanders said. “Sanders, has articulated how she’s going to pay for the proposal”, Chelsea Clinton said.
Clinton’s campaign has aggressively attacked Sanders over his record on gun control and released a new ad itself drawing a contrast on the issue. However, the one bit of finger-in-the-wind punditry I’m comfortable dispensing this year is that comparisons with previous election cycles probably don’t mean much.
SANDERS: You know, I think what she simply – when she adopts the “Wall Street Journal” line that Sanders wants to spend $15 trillion more on health insurance, what she is forgetting to talk about is the substantial sum of money we save when people do not pay private health insurance. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), swiped at her in a television ad.
There are just a few more weeks until the race really begins, and with Sanders gaining momentum each day, Clinton’s long-projected run could come to a sudden halt. A new NYT/CBS poll this week showed Clinton with her smallest lead nationwide (Clinton 48 percent, Sanders 41). “One says it’s okay to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do”.
Clinton is trying to attack Sanders from the right, while pretending to attack him from the left.
Sanders said Wednesday that Barack Obama attacked Clinton in 2008 for supporting the same plan Sanders does now.
Clinton, meanwhile, has sounded more like the Republican candidates with her conventional forever war posture, her defense of the disastrous Libya intervention and her calls for an escalation of the war in Syria.
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“He’s speaking about ideas and solutions that this country’s hungry for”, she said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” last summer.
