“Bernie Sanders closes a 31-point gap to tie Secretary Hillary Clinton”, Tim Malloy, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, said in a statement released with the polling data. 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.
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Dean then criticized Sanders for implying Clinton is in the pocket of Wall Street after giving paid speeches for major financial firms in the past.
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. Asked whether she would release the transcripts of those speeches she said she was “willing to look into it” but didn’t commit to doing so.
On foreign policy, Sanders renewed his criticism of Clinton for her vote as a senator to authorize the war in Iraq, a vote she later said was a mistake.
While many Democrats swear against super PACs, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who supports Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, said Friday that labor unions are, in fact, “super PACs that Democrats like”.
In related bad news for Clinton, she was out-fundraised by Sanders $20 million to $15 million in the month of January. “I canvassed yesterday, and everybody that was home told me that they were voting for Hillary”, said Rebecca Herr of Bristol.
“Our campaign is committed to earning the support of every Michigan voter by making the case that Hillary Clinton is the one candidate with the toughness and the experience to do all parts the job of President”, said Hillary for America Michigan Press Secretary Clark Pettig. She demurred – “I think that would be a little presumptuous” – but said Sanders would have a voice in her administration. The Republicans are up next. While Sanders made a point of harping on his opponent’s disconnect with the American people, Clinton fought back hard last night in New Hampshire.
The pair tangled again and again during their first one-on-one debate of the 2016 race, battling over who is the best liberal standard-bearer for a party that’s moved to the left during President Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House.
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“Yes, let’s fix the VA, but we will never let it be privatized, and that is a promise”, she said. Almost a quarter of Democrats and two-fifths of Independents say they are still not that familiar with Sanders.
