To compare the 2016 primary race to 2008 is unavoidable. “I welcome Senator Sanders moving on one of the issues he was wrong on”. Not only does that state hold the first contest for them, but Clinton and Sanders are running neck-and-neck in both Iowa and New Hampshire, while she has held a commanding lead in S.C. polls.
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Sanders (represented by orange dots in the above map) has made a handful of visits to Greater Manchester, Clinton’s base eight years ago.
Bernie Sanders voiced his support on Saturday for legislation that would amend a law that protects gun manufacturers and sellers from liability after guns are used in crimes.
He recounted how Hillary Clinton negotiated with foreign leaders, such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, when she was secretary of state.
“It’s like a quarter flipping around in the air”, George Ensley, chairman of the Democratic party in Boone County, Iowa, said of the race in that state, where a comfortable lead Clinton enjoyed since spring has evaporated. I’m talking about the Democratic primary, although the Republican side is usually interesting in its own special way.
Hillary Clinton may have been the bête noire of the GOP debate last night, but the Democratic presidential hopeful got far more exposure-and publicity-on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon”. However, he only decided Thursday to support Clinton rather than Vermont Sen.
In the 2008 Democratic primary, Clinton won by large margins in several key towns and cities.
“We’re fighting on who would make a better President, not on who has a better Physical Fitness Test”, Podesta tweeted. And in New Hampshire, Sanders-a longtime senator from next-door Vermont-leads Clinton by six points.
Little noticed in last week’s Des Moines Register-Bloomberg Politics Iowa poll was this finding: A remarkable 43 percent of likely Democratic caucus participants describe themselves as socialists, including 58 percent of Sanders’s supporters and about a third of Clinton’s. He is proposing economic and institutional reforms further reaching than anything since the New Deal that would redistribute income and help democratize political power – breaking up the big banks, increasing the income and bargaining power of labor, taxes on Wall Street and the rich, campaign finance reform, single-payer health care and even reform of the most important and often unaccountable economic policymaking body in the country, the Federal Reserve.
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.
CNN asked for Sanders’ medical records in 2015 but the Sanders campaign did not respond.
Clinton and Sanders have talked about their roles in the civil rights movement and policies that could improve relations between black residents and white police officers as they compete for the black vote.
The day after her video posted, Clinton hit the campaign trail.
Then new polling news emerged. “I’d forgotten about some of those”, she said.
According to a poll commissioned by the New York Times and CBS News earlier this week, Sanders is narrowing the gap between Hillary Clinton.
PHOTO Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. And against Trump, she went from beating The Donald among women by 26 points in December to only 12 points in January.
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All of these factors combine to make Bernie Sanders not just a contender, but the actual likely Democratic presidential nominee. Clinton has accused Sanders of being weak on gun control, pointing to his repeated votes against the Brady Bill and in support of the so-called Charleston Loophole, which allows gun buyers to bypass a background check if it is not completed in three days.
