She also harkened back to her 1968 trip to New Hampshire to campaign for presidential candidate Gene McCarthy, an her experience working around the country to “expose racism in the schools” in Alabama, register Latino voters in southern Texas, and her move to Arkansas to work with her now-husband Bill Clinton. Her aides fear that a huge win here will help him make headway among women and minority voters, two key planks of the coalition that twice boosted President Barack Obama to victory. As is often the case in New Hampshire, things could change quickly.
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Clinton took questions for more than an hour, with some of the first being about the 2012 attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, and whether she mishandled classified emails on a private email server when she was running the state department.
Among democrats, the poll found Sanders remains ahead of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with 55 percent to her 41 percent.
“She won the Democratic primary back in 2008”, Sanders said.
The day before, during a blizzard in Manchester, she joined a fleet of female senators for a volunteer rally.
Ryan Hughes is the state director for the Sanders campaign. He has called for a revolution at the ballot box. Then she added, “A progressive is someone who makes progress”. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign stop at the Franklin Pierce University Fieldhouse, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, in Rindge, N.H.
Sanders headed to New York City for a cameo appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”, appearing with comedian Larry David, who has portrayed Sanders as an impassioned underdog shouting for revolution. He was quickly dispatched to SC for campaign events on Saturday with Erica Garner, whose father died in 2014 after a white NY police officer put the black man in a choke hold. Clinton is one of the best known political figures in the world and has strong backing among Latinos and black voters.
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When another questioner asked why Sanders had so much momentum, Clinton said she was pleased he had attracted so many young people to his campaign but made the case that her policy proposals on health care and college affordability was superior. “But if you look at Sanders he has been solid as concrete with regards to his passion for racial, social and economic justice”.
