With her numbers on the rise after a summer slump, Clinton finds herself increasingly targeted by her primary opponents – a tonal shift for a race that has been notably civil for much of the early primary.
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“Now for me, as opposed to maybe a few other unnamed candidates, the issue of Keystone was kind of a no-brainer”, Sanders said, in an an obvious swipe at Clinton.
Meanwhile, O’Malley, who is trailing in the national polls behind Clinton and Sanders, described his plans to take seven separate executive actions as president to curb gun violence earlier this week.
Sanders had narrowed Clinton’s lead from 57 points in May to 13 percentage points by the end of September. “I believe in the party of Franklin Roosevelt”.
The message intended for Democratic voters was clear: Clinton can not be trusted to fight hard for liberal values. “I am not asking millionaires and billionaires for large campaign contributions”.
Sanders noted that he was proud of the substantive debate Democrats were having on the important issues facing America. Aides say he hasn’t changed his position, arguing he long backed continuing the federal investigation into her use of a private server.
A day later, Sanders insisted that his comments are rooted not in personality politics but serious policy differences.
South Carolina’s February 27 Democratic primary will be the fourth nominating contest for Democrats in what’s become a three-way race between Clinton, U.S. Sen.
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Reid said, “At the risk of getting a hostile crowd going behind us one of the challenges that Bernie Sanders is going to have is that the case that has been made on his behalf by his supporter has included not exactly friendly confrontations with African-Americans over whether or not black people ought to be feeling the burn”. So, his next step will be Spanish-language radio ads in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, which tell the story of his father, who immigrated from Poland as a young man. The campaign is also planning radio ads on South Carolina stations popular with black voters, who comprise about half of that state’s primary electorate.
