Is Hillary Clinton qualified to be president? At one point she also let Fallon pull her hair, a dig at Trump’s hair … When a pitchfork-populist billionaire is leading one party’s race and a self-described socialist is rapidly gaining ground in the other, I think it’s safe to say we’re somewhere we haven’t been before.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders denies that his latest campaign ad – which slams one of “two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street” as too soft on big banks – is a negative spot, and refutes that it targets rival Hillary Clinton in any way.
During Clinton’s unsuccessful 2008 campaign, she faced criticism for having Mark Penn as her top adviser, while his public relations firm represented tobacco, oil, pharmaceutical and gaming companies. Fallon reportedly inquired the politician how she communicates with her followers or supporters and Clinton replied through Snapchat. The question is whether Clinton, in faulting the idea of middle class tax hikes to fund Sanders’ single payer goal, is in effect attacking the idea at the core of single payer, which could alienate Democratic primary voters.
The former secretary of state conceivably could lose Iowa and New Hampshire but quickly regain the upper hand in the nominating contest by winning in SC and several other Southern states that follow.
“People in Iowa, they want to aspire”, Axelrod said.
At an afternoon event in Keene, voters recalled the Clinton presidency fondly, as a time of prosperity. After all, many Americans look back on the Bill Clinton era as a time of relative peace and prosperity, especially in contrast to the record of the last Republican president, George W. Bush.
Still, some of those economic achievements face a skeptical re-examination within a party that’s grown more liberal under the Obama administration. Democrats, she said then, should be united on the issue.
After Iowa and New Hampshire, the calendar seemingly swings in Clinton’s favor. The Democratic field is (or used to be) nearly the direct opposite: There were four white men (one of them is Jewish, though) and Hillary Clinton. “But I ought to get some credit for knowing something about how to run the economy”. Barack Obama. But unlike eight years ago, when his comments about Obama “playing the race card” angered black voters, he made no mention of his wife’s primary opponent.
“We’ve kind of known all along that this was going to happen”, says Doug Deaett from Hanover, who has been volunteering with the Sanders Campaign.
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“I have been working against inequality since I was right out of law school, and I have worked hard to try to level the odds for people who are often left behind and left out”, she said. “Once you get into it, this is a Democratic election for our nominee and it gets really close, exciting”, she said. “But Bernie is telling the truth about the economy”.
