Hillary Clinton is deploying an all-star team of surrogates as she seeks to muscle her way to victory in Iowa and New Hampshire. “Give me one or the other”, he said of Sanders and Clinton. Sander has widened his lead over Clinton to 12.6 points in the state, according to an average of polls from Real Clear Politics (RCP). His latest ad, “America”, shows off his massive rallies and a genial image of the 74-year-old lawmaker to the tune of the famous 1968 song by Simon and Garfunkel. “In a campaign that is as spirited as ours”, she said, “we owe it to voters to draw contrasts”.
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On Tuesday, Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said Sanders’ arguments that he’s more electable are undermined by evidence Republicans would rather run against him than against Clinton.
“We need somebody in the Oval Office who really understands that NARAL and Planned Parenthood are not part of the establishment”, Clinton said without mentioning Sanders, who backed away from his initial comments on Thursday. Democrat Bernie Sanders is also campaigning in the Granite State. The campaign’s communications director, Jen Palmieri, said it’s obvious that Clinton is the candidate Republicans are afraid to face.
And she called Sanders’ statement in Sunday night’s debate – that he favors normalizing relations with Iran – “a fundamental misunderstanding of what it takes to do the patient diplomacy that I have experience in to be able to continue to change behavior, or at least to mitigate against behavior by Iran”. That hesitancy has changed in recent weeks.
Now, one Democratic presidential candidate wants to use Social Security and Medicare as building blocks for a health care system that, unlike the current one, won’t cost 50 percent more than any other nation’s while leaving millions uncovered.
Sanders is going negative in the process, calling out Clinton for taking money for speeches to Goldman Sachs as he channels some of the harsh talk of his top advisers and supporters.
For 32 years, there has been a Democratic debate after the Iowa caucuses, this year set for February 1, and before the New Hampshire primary, the letter says. “We like Bernie and he’s having a conversation we think is important so it’s not an easy thing to do”.
First, Sen. Sanders, boasting about a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll that shows him beating Donald Trump by 15 points at 54 to 39 (Hillary Clinton tops Trump only 51-41). Vermont has an open primary, which Sanders, of course, should win.
Both candidates find closer races in Iowa, which will go to caucus just over a week before New Hampshire’s primary. The larger numbers of minority voters in the later contests benefit Clinton, who’s consistently polled better among those groups.
I realize this is a depressing picture, one of four or eight more years of gridlock, with a hamstrung president who can do little more than preserve the policy legacy of the Obama administration.
“Sanders organizers seem to be making some headway”, said Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, who says he’s likely to endorse Clinton. Minnesota and Colorado, both of which caucus that day, are precisely the sort of white liberal that Sanders has attracted.
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Trent Lott, the former Senate majority leader, told the Atlantic he’d take Trump over Cruz if he had to choose. Evan Bayh, a Clinton fundraiser. The money exists, and it has been concentrated amongst the few at the detriment of the many for far too long.
