The Sanders campaign has said it’s insulting to New Hampshire voters to suggest that they would only support him because he’s from the New England area.
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In the aspirationally-named “Rochester Opera House” – just down Main St from the local Clinton campaign headquarters where teenage girls prepared their “Ready for Hillary” signs – a boisterous crowd was getting ready to crown Bernie as a future president.
Sanders is taking a short break from the campaign trail in New Hampshire and planning to be in NY on Saturday night.
The two Democrats embraced a markedly more contentious tone than when they last debated before the year’s presidential voting began in Iowa, and it signalled how the race for the nomination has tightened five days ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire next Tuesday. “The more they are able to directly see her, the more we learn about her and I think that will translate and people will pick up on that”, said Rech. Voters in Iowa and New Hampshire are predominantly white.
Williams, also a military veteran, said in an op-ed posted online Thursday night that he sees the OH governor as the right candidate to be “responsible enough to command the world’s most powerful military” and that he is the “the best choice to root out corruption at the Veterans Administration”. Barack Obama, and has a long history of campaigning in the state dating back to her husbands presidential campaigns. That’s too simple. I don’t think people are motivated to heckle a sitting U.S. Senator speaking at a Democratic Party event named in her honor simply because she’s supporting a different candidate. “It may be inconvenient for the Sanders campaign that Hillary Clinton won the Iowa caucus, but it’s the truth”. Clinton supporters are hoping those who haven’t decided can be persuaded.
The retired school administrator touted Clinton’s credentials as a former First Lady, senator and secretary of state. “New Hampshire has never quit on me, and I’m not going to quit on you”, she said, pledging to fight for every vote here.
The Clinton camp is also trying to stoke subtle doubts – doubts about Sanders’ electability and his readiness for the job. Sanders has enjoyed a decisive lead in the polls for weeks.
The two camps were on either side of the stands at the Verizon Wireless Arena and their energy poured out in chants and applause. Comedian Larry David, who has played Sanders with uncanny precision this season, is hosting this week’s show, and Sanders is expected to make a cameo.
The former secretary of state testily responded to Sanders’ charges.
But Sanders’ small-donor network and his fundraising strategy have proved capable of competing with Clinton’s establishment backing.
Shkreli last fall sparked widespread outrage when his company raised the cost of Daraprim, a drug used to treat an infection that can cause brain damage in people with AIDS, more than 5,000 percent.
But Bernie Sanders could have more wind behind his sails.
Clinton shared a stage at a YWCA in Manchester with New York Sen.
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The 60-second spot is set to run Saturday in New Hampshire and features Santorum being stumped in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” when asked to list Rubio’s accomplishments in the Senate. And her advisers say she will not be thrown off message by issues that are not her primary concern, such as whether she will release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street banks, corporations, and nonprofit groups. That’s particularly true since Clinton will benefit from the efforts of the formidable political machine of Jeanne and Billy Shaheen.
