Taking a page out of Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s playbook, Sanders has recently started opening his remarks with lengthy references to his improving poll numbers.
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“That’s not what I meant”, Sanders told NBC News in an interview during his campaign swing through the first-in-the-nation primary state.
Blitzer outlined the charges from the Sanders campaign that Clinton was part of the establishment, as evidenced by her endorsements from groups like Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign.
Conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, the poll surveyed 420 likely 2016 Democratic primary voters from January 13 to 18 via telephone.
Planned Parenthood does some of the most important work of any progressive-minded organization in this country, providing reproductive health services to millions of low-income Americans. She says this would keep refugees safe from ISIS and the Al-Assad regime. “Now I know that Senator Sanders cares about covering more people, as I do”. But with two weeks before the caucuses, she took her comments further, framing Sanders’s plan as an empty promise – and his record in Congress as the proof.
McCaskill is part of a vanguard of Clinton surrogates arguing that Sanders, who has gained on Clinton in recent polls, is unelectable against a Republican nominee.
In addition to a growth in support, Sanders’ net favorability has also gone up, with 91 percent of likely New Hampshire Democratic primary voters saying they have a favorable opinion of him, according to poll results. Clinton was expected to win the Democratic nomination easily but Sanders has mounted a serious challenge.
At Thursday’s speech here, at Simpson College, Emily Hutchison quickly volunteered that gender matters in casting her vote.
“Look, I think we have to do very well in Iowa. So we need to make sure that our voters come out across the state”, Weaver says.
While some of Clinton’s aides are sensing the urgency in the final 12 days, the former secretary of state responded by thanking the voters of Iowa.
“This is it. Here I am”, Sanders said as he closed an event in Iowa.
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“I am leaving here even more of a supportive than I was before”, said Reeder.
