“Sorry Bern boy. Don’t get me wrong, I love Senator Sanders -” she said, before her friend Tim LaPointe interjected, “but she’s the Eleanor Roosevelt of our time“. “I’ve been fighting for families and underdogs my entire life, and I’m not going to stop now”, Clinton said.
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But there’s little doubt her email usage has hurt her campaign. It was, in part, an acknowledgment that the issue has lessened Americans’ views of Clinton’s trustworthiness – and comes as chatter surrounding potential alternatives, including Vice President Joe Biden, heats up. “I don’t pretend this isn’t about politics”, she said.
The rock-star reception for Clinton masked growing concern among Democrats about a series of new reports that the FBI is investigating her communications setup, and a spate of polls showing her vulnerability to the insurgent candidacy of independent Vermont Sen.
Democrats in the first-in-the-nation caucus state gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a raucous reception at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding on Friday night, repeatedly interrupting her with cries of “Hillary!”
The fund-raiser was held at the Surf Ballroom, the venue where rock-and-roll legends Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, and Ritchie Valens played in February 1959 before they died in a plane crash here in Clear Lake.
She was followed by Sanders, who supported numerous same policies, but highlighted three positions of his that clash with Clinton: His opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and his opposition to the Iraq War, which Clinton supported in the Senate. I think the people of Iowa deserve more than one debate, and I think for the DNC is trying to insert itself into this process.
He also trained his fire at Republicans, accusing them of being “hell-bent to get us into other wars”. One day after Trump spoke at a Republican event in Birch Run, Democratic contender Martin O’Malley paused in Ann Arbor for a fundraising event Wednesday evening. He also touted his record as governor of Maryland and his relative youth compared to Clinton and Sanders as distinguishing factors in the race.
His refrain: “Action, not words”.
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“Today, our country faces new challenges – among them a changing climate, a justice system in need of reform, and an economy in which 70 percent of us are making less today than we were 12 years ago”, O’Malley said in a campaign statement.
