The poll also shows that if the general election came down to Clinton and Marco Rubio, voters said they would vote for Rubio over Clinton, 48 to 41 percent. She trailed by 31 points at the beginning of the week. “I don’t know the status”.
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Sanders, who is challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, will appear on “SNL” alongside host Larry David – who has done a near ideal imitation of Sanders. However, his lack of dedicated foreign policies has been his biggest shortcoming this election, and his only defense when asked about foreign policy is that he voted against Iraq.
Sanders held the former secretary of state to a whisper-thin margin of victory in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses, and polls show he has a big lead in New Hampshire. She noted, correctly, that she urged Wall Street revisions before the Great Recession, as proof that she goes against the interests of finance.
Sure, the campaign run by Bernie Sanders has been passive-aggressive to say the least, but that’s politics. While one of the debate’s most intense confrontations arguably stemmed from Clinton’s accusation that Sanders’ campaign was engaged in an “artful smear” of Clinton’s relationship with Wall Street, both agreed to avoid dwelling on media scandals involving the two candidates.
“When folks talk about the revolution, the revolution is electing the first woman president of the United States”, Stabenow said to a small but fired-up audience.
“There is a reason why these people are putting huge amounts of money into our political system”, Mr. Sanders said. “Honestly, Senator Sanders is the only person who I think would characterise me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment”, she said.
Clinton leads Sanders 48 percent to 45 percent among Democratic voters, according to the poll of 512 Americans, conducted February 2-5 following the Iowa caucus.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa … wow”, Bernie Sanders mumbled during one of the exchanges – surely many watching had a similar reaction last night. She had struggled a day earlier to explain why she accepted $675,000 for three speeches from Goldman Sachs. “Because that’s what they offered”, she said.
“Honest to goodness, this beggars the imagination”, she said. “So it’s an issue in this campaign, and it was an issue that she responded to, and most people think very effectively, in the debate”.
Sanders allowed that while Clinton had been secretary of state, “experience is not the only point”.
She tried that tactic again Thursday. Free public college tuition?
But Sanders pointed to decision-making as what’s most important.
In the public mind, many of those points have been pushed aside.
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It was a markedly more contentious tone than the two candidates set when they last debated before the presidential voting began in Iowa, and it signaled how the race has tightened five days ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary next Tuesday.
