Sanders needs a decisive win to help him peel away Clinton supporters in more diverse states, where he trails. There, she debuted a thoroughly revamped stump speech after her razor-thin Iowa win that strikes a more populist tone.
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An aide to the former president told MSNBC that Bill Clinton’s sharper tone was in response to Sanders escalating his own attacks on Clinton’s integrity and Wall Street ties, to which he took offense.
The noticeable shift to one of Sanders’ key messages – inequality and the lack of upward mobility in the country – isn’t an accident. Hillary Clinton’s 2008 victory in New Hampshire likewise helped revive, for a time, her unsuccessful campaign against Barack Obama.
Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea introduced Clinton and campaigned for her through Monday.
“Well, I think he’s been inaccurate”. I’m very confident in the people that I have.
Hillary Clinton gets a hug from her daughter, Chelsea, as her husband, Bill watches at a rally at Manchester Community College on Monday.
“When you’re making a revolution you can’t be too careful with the facts”, Clinton said, deriding Sanders’ oft-mentioned call for a political revolution.
The Clinton camp has sought to downplay expectations, even after Clinton herself rejected advice to leave New Hampshire early to get a head start in Nevada or SC, important primary states with votes on February 20 and 27, respectively.
His comments come a day after he dramatically escalated his critiques of Sanders, saying the senator exists in a “hermetically sealed box” and suggesting he was not qualified to be president. The latest, from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and 7 News, shows the Vermont senator enjoying a 16-point lead over the former secretary of state. Paul Tsongas in 1992. Once the primary reaches SC, it will kick off a run of states that Clinton will be favored to win.
‘And they are just as mad as the ones who aren’t, ‘ he noted. “Where everybody who is on the other side is part of some mythical establishment”.
More importantly, that woman has to be the right candidate. “Obviously the race has changed in New Hampshire and elsewhere in recent days”.
Bernie Sanders surged ahead a few months ago, and is holding on. “I don’t think so”, he said.
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“It’s no longer unimaginable that there would be a woman president”, she says. Clinton was pretty strong as usual, but she has done this kind of thing for years. The self-described democratic socialist from Vermont can not afford to stumble in New Hampshire, which neighbors his home state. “It’s a trust factor”. The candidate blamed her team for not getting her out of the mess quickly, and her team blamed Clinton for being stubbornly unwilling to take the advice of campaign chairman John Podesta and others to apologize, turn over her server, and move on. It’s a grass-roots movement.
