Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton voiced her strong support for Israel, telling the Jewish Federation of Greater des Moines on Monday, “More than policy, it’s personal”. “There are those who say we cannot defeat a corrupt political system and fix a rigged economy”, Sanders says in the ad. “But I believe we need to lift our vision above the obstacles in place and look to the American horizon”. “I think they’re on our kitchen table”.
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An uncharacteristically confrontational Sanders, taking umbrage at the barrage of attacks from his rival’s campaign, launched into a spirited critique of Clinton’s career.
“That has an appeal and I understand it”, Mr Obama said, adding: “I think that what Hillary presents is a recognition that translating values into governance and delivering the goods is ultimately the job of politics”. The biggest shift in our results this week is among white evangelical voters – a key group in the 2012 and 2008 Iowa Republican caucuses.
Clinton was long the clear leader among Democrats, but in recent weeks Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has roughly drawn even with her in polls in Iowa.
“One of the most distressing aspects of this campaign has been the language of Republican candidates, particularly their frontrunner, that insults, demeans, denigrates different people”, Clinton said.
Former Secretary of State and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is 68.
The first example had to do with the Iran nuclear deal, which Clinton said she played a central role in shaping by garnering support for sanctions that would isolate Iran and bring it around to rolling back its nuclear program. But Clinton came in on an uptick, earning praise from President Barack Obama and picking up an endorsement from Iowa’s largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, which wrote over the weekend that “no other candidate can match the depth or breadth of her knowledge and experience”.
While Clinton has led the Democratic field for months, she’s being challenged anew by Sanders in Iowa, as well as in New Hampshire, which votes second in the primary contest. But he said his hope was that when voting began, Republicans “will settle down and say, ‘Who do we want actually sitting behind the desk, making decisions that are critical to our future?”‘ The overall decline in her favourability ratings over the summer a year ago, when she was asked tough questions about her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state, was driven by a sharp fall in approval among men. “Yes we will”, Sanders said.
Sanders, Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley made their arguments to Iowa voters at a televised forum hosted by Drake University and the Iowa Democratic Party, one week ahead of the Iowa caucuses.
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O’Malley said Iowa is “pointing the way forward” on the issue.
