“No”, she replied without hesitation. The race between Clinton and Sanders has tightened significantly in those two key states and each side has intensified attacks against the other. The Democratic National Convention is more than six months away, and even if Clinton were to lose both in Iowa and New Hampshire, those defeats would not amount to a campaign death sentence.
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TheNew York Times reported that the MoveOn endorsement of Sanders was “not a surprise, given the time that the group has spent trying to find someone who could be a strong challenger to Mrs. Clinton from the left”, referring to the earlier MoveOn effort to draft Sen.
During a mock job interview with Fallon, the former secretary of state, meanwhile, argued that she has the right experience and references to take over the White House. “It really shows we’re going to have a pretty insane last few weeks here”, he added.
Martin O’Malley will also be appearing onstage Sunday night (just barely), though obviously the spotlight will be on the fight between Sanders and Clinton.
“It’s about six months of communication versus 20 years”, said Marcus Ferrell, who is Sanders’ African-American Outreach Director, comparing Sanders to Clinton. “Almost everybody in America understands that we have got to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them”.
Sanders has declined to call the 2005 vote a mistake a number of times, citing the fact that he worries about the impact rescinding immunity would have on small, family-owned gun shops. “He’s a lot more obsessed with me than I am with him”, she said laughing.
John Podesta, Clinton’s top campaign aide, tweeted Saturday that the campaign “welcomes Senator Sanders’ debate-eve conversion, reversing his vote to immunize gun manufacturers”. And since Chelsea Clinton’s gross mischaracterization of Bernie’s single payer health care proposal, he has actually gained momentum and is getting more supporters as Hillary loses them.
Jeff Weaver, Sanders campaign manager, said earlier this week that his plan, including details on how he would pay for it, would likely not come out before the Iowa caucuses on February 1. So at Sunday’s NBC News Democratic Primary Debate we can expect her to talk not just about gun control, health care and the economy, but also electability.
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From her opening statement, Clinton took every opportunity to ignore her rivals onstage and go after what she believes is the true opposition. There was a time when Democrats fretted about Hillary Clinton¿s presidential campaign becoming a coronation, leaving her without the tests of a primary season to prepare for a general election matchup against the Republican nominee.
