Trump, a master of political theater, seems to be savoring the implications for later this fall of a startling turn of events in the Democratic presidential race that has thrust Sanders ahead of Hillary Rodham Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire while shrinking Clinton’s once sizable lead in the national polls.
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While the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll has Clinton leading Sanders by three points in Iowa, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll, Sanders up by five points against Clinton in Iowa and 15 points in New Hampshire according to the latest Monmouth poll.
Polls show that both issues are important to black voters.
The problem for Clinton is that a loss in Iowa might well be followed by a second defeat in New Hampshire, where Sanders has long led.
Besides about 60 degrees that’s been lost since July, Clinton’s lead is virtually gone, even after six months of campaigning.
“Titled I’m With Him, Clinton’s straight-to-camera ad continues her campaign’s knock against Sanders’ more conservative positions on guns”. Sanders supports Obama’s recent executive action to expand background checks on certain gun purchases, but he has also argued that rural communities, like those he represents in Vermont, rightfully view gun restrictions more skeptically than many urban residents, including many African-Americans.
Sanders has recently said he would release his tax plan before the Iowa caucus, but today his campaign put out a plan for how to pay for his policies that did not include health care.
“That’s just not accurate”, Sanders said, explaining that what he is advocating would be a “50-state program” that GOP governors could not block in their states.
After the Sanders’ campaign, rebuked Chelsea’s comments, Hillary Clinton defended her on ‘Good Morning America’.
Todd said that the Clinton campaign is running on electability, airing advertisements that assure voters Clinton is the best candidate because she will win. “It has to stop”, Clinton says.
“You know, I adore my daughter and I know what she was saying because if you look at Senator Sanders’ proposals going back nine times in the Congress, that’s exactly what he’s proposed”.
That’s a change from what Sanders first told Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” earlier this month that he would release his details for paying for his health care plan before the caucuses on February 1.
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Still, there’s no doubt Sanders’ unexpected strength has the Clinton campaign on edge. “Republicans always go after who they don’t want to be nominated in the primary”. “And where she is absolutely wrong: This is a plan that works in 50 states in this country, whether you have conservative Republicans or progressive Democrats. I would hope that Secretary Clinton will tell the American people, does she support universal health care?”
