The former president placed second to Massachusetts Sen.
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When the former front-runner was asked whether she could win the Granite State’s February 9 primary – which polls heavily favor her to lose – Clinton answered grimly. She also cast her plans as more fiscally responsible.
Sanders has criticized Clinton for benefiting from a super political action committee and for accepting donations and speaking fees from Wall Street at a time when the United States still is struggling to recover from a recession.
That may be a tough sell for Casey Beat, a recent graduate of Franklin Pierce who came to see Sanders at her alma mater Saturday.
That generational rift was prominent in Iowa earlier this month.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) holds a news conference to announce their proposed legislation to strengthen Social Security March 7, 2013 in Washington, DC. He’s a registered Democrat and likes Sanders’ push for college affordability. Clinton was backed by almost 70 percent of those 65 and older.
It remains unclear whether his message can really propel him all the way to the nomination – Clinton still holds a clear lead in many upcoming primary states – but a big loss here would add to the sense that Clinton’s aura of invincibility is fading fast. A high turnout by those younger voters could help Sanders close the gap on Clinton.
“He won my heart from the start”, said Columbia College sophomore Andy Herrington, who saw Sanders in Columbia and was drawn to “the way he talked about finding jobs and college, helping pay for that”.
Many are bothered by Clinton’s posture toward Sanders, whom she has accused of engaging in an “artful smear” of her reputation. “The most important foreign policy issue in the modern history of this country was the war in Iraq”. “So I think it is not just experience, obviously she’s been Secretary of State… but it is judgement as well”. That’s not Hillary Clinton’s position. You have sort of a crack in the ceiling.
She says that in 2016, people are concerned that the economy and the government “aren’t working for them…and that’s causing a lot of the anger and frustration”.
CLINTON: This is not the only place where children are being harmed by what they breathe and what they drink.
RICK PLUTA, BYLINE: Hillary Clinton’s visit capped an hours-long church revival meeting filled with songs, sermons and a pastor with a sense of humor as he noted the packed seats at the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church.
The presidential candidates most appealing to Donahue are the verbal bomb-throwers, the men saying what she thinks needs saying, she said over coffee here last week. She was not just a typical first lady. What followed was a contentious 90 minutes including a question about Benghazi, her email server and why voters don’t trust her. And there was one from a young woman who asked Clinton about why she seemed so rehearsed and, quote, “boring”.
The billionaire developer did not specify what he would do to weaken or cancel the sweeping Trans Pacific Partnership between the USA and 11 other nations.
Both Clinton and Sanders campaigns are courting women and young voters.
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Sanders said that while his critics say his vision is “nice”, they have reservations about whether they could overcome opposition by the private insurance companies and drug companies to get legislation through Congress.
