“Rubio betrayed our trust”, the Cruz commercial says. He compared serving in the Senate to being in elementary school.
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Bush’s Iraq invasion may rank as the worst foreign policy disaster in USA history – spreading chaos across the Mideast and now into Europe, yet polls show Democrats nationwide favor nominating Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war and backed it even after Bush’s WMD claims were debunked, recalls Stephen Zunes. But they’re looking now to the future: “Does Rubio come out of Iowa strong enough to get through SC and actually keep himself going?” said Erick Erickson, a conservative personality in close touch with the Cruz team.
Bernie Sanders kicked off the democrat filled night in Davenport.
That scenario has worked better for Democrats, as the national party has chosen the victor of the Iowa caucuses in the last three contested nomination races. Given the state’s large Hispanic population, voter turnout should prove interesting, considering Trump’s strident anti-immigrant rhetoric, including his idea to forcibly deport the roughly 11 million people in the US illegally.
In 2004, about 124,000 people showed up – with that year’s liberal insurgent, Howard Dean, particularly let down by the turnout, losing to John Kerry and never recovering.
But Rubio has inched up in recent Iowa polls, and the third-place finish that he is positioned for now looks more secure.
But at his Manchester rally, Ruth Lewin, a retired grocery store clerk and child care provider, said the latest news about Clinton’s emails reinforced why she will be caucusing for Sanders on Monday. Voter Mike Valde told Cruz his brother-in-law couldn’t afford health insurance until Obama’s law, but by the time he went to a doctor he was dying and couldn’t be saved.
Valde said after the event that promising to repeal Obama’s law is just a campaign slogan and he wanted to hear Cruz’s plan for a replacement.
“The water crisis in Flint is unconscionable”, the statement said.
“Overall, that’s a significant benefit to the people as a whole, not just those in Iowa and New Hampshire”. He said a federal EPA administrator said the state EPA had taken steps beyond what’s required. “That is, I think, a very serious issue”, Sanders said.
Tens of thousands of Iowans will put on their winter coats after supper Monday, wander out to public buildings across the state, and begin the process of picking a US president.
The Republican is focusing his efforts on the second state on the primary calendar.
In a sign of that promise, Kasich told a voter concerned about climate change that he’s committed to reducing carbon emissions. If the number of people in any group is fewer than 15 percent of the total, they can either choose not to participate or can join another viable candidate’s group.
A snowfall forecast to start Monday night appeared more likely to hinder the hopefuls in their rush out of Iowa – and to New Hampshire, with its February 9 primary – than the voters.
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He’s followed in the Republican field by Texas Sen. “Marco Rubio’s different, the Republican Obama who championed Obama’s amnesty and led the Gang of Eight”, a reference to failed immigration legislation in 2013 that would have provided a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
