Though for O’Brien, and for most attendees at the time, Sanders was far from a familiar face, especially when compared to the popularity of the known Hillary Clinton – who O’Brien supported before reading about Sanders.
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Carin Savel, of Longmeadow, meanwhile, said she decided to make phone calls for Clinton’s campaign because she believes “she is what this country needs”.
A woman in the crowd yelled out, “Anger!”
“I want you to understand that this is for me a personal commitment”. With the 2016 Iowa results behind him, Trump is now focused on New Hampshire’s caucus results.
But just days before the New Hampshire primary, amid calls to release transcripts from her closed-door speeches, Clinton hasn’t been quite as forthcoming. She cited nagging concerns about Clinton’s role in the Benghazi attacks and her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state.
On the cusp of victory, Sanders has largely been sticking to his script, wary of any changes that might threaten his edge in the state. “How do you think it went?”
The former First Lady, whose husband, President Bill Clinton, later travelled to Keene on the Vermont border to make her case, has been battered by claims from the Sanders camp that she is beholden to Wall Street and soaked in its money. I can’t do some kind of, you know, personality transformation.
“A lot of people think you know that’s ultimately her decision”, said Sanders.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, at right, answers questions during a student town hall at New England College in Henniker, N.H., Saturday Feb. 6, 2016.
“Our government belongs to all of us, and not just a small number of wealthy people”, he said.
Like Clinton, Sanders is also looking past the Granite State.
“Hillary Clinton is on the waiting list and about nine months from now the United States is going to give birth to a president, and I am praying that it is going to be a girl”, the pastor said, adding later that he was “just proud to have Hillary Clinton in our city”. By refusing to tell the public what she tells Goldman Sachs’ bankers in private, Clinton is leaving too much to the imagination: what could she possibly have promised bankers that is too damaging to release to her constituents?
Sanders’ backers believe that as African-Americans learn more about the Vermont senator, they will warm to his liberal message, pointing to a endorsement this week by former NAACP President Ben Jealous. However, it’s interesting that both Sanders and Clinton complained about the alleged discrepancies.
“She has made this a handsome, lovely day for the hope that we would hope that we would have had from our government here in the state of Michigan”, Matthews said.
“Our most important task is to make certain that we have a means by which the needs of the people filter on up top and when we do that, we change America”, said Sanders.
For its part, the Sanders campaign said in response, “We’re glad that, for the first time, Secretary Clinton has indicated that she will join me in expanding Social Security benefits”.
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Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, hit back at the former president Sunday in Manchester. “And if they can’t, we’re going to try to help them”. And a RealClearPolitics poll put Sanders up by nearly 17 percent in New Hampshire ahead of the primary.
