South Carolina, fourth in line with its primary contest, is seen as a possible firewall for the Clinton campaign because of its strength among minority voters, who make up a sizable portion of the electorate in the state.
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Clinton addressed how close the numbers now are between her and Vermont Sen.
“If – and it’s a very big if – Bernie Sanders wins both Iowa and New Hampshire, there will be a lot of heartburn”.
Citing the aspirations of Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman, Sanders said that all Americans have a right to health care.
“It’s about people in the Democratic establishment who believe you can take Wall Street’s money and then somehow turn around and rein in the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior”, Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs said in a statement shared with The Hill. But the Clinton campaign has a fight on its hands – and anything smacking of politics-as-usual is more likely to lose votes than win them.
With that story in mind, the jaw-dropping resilience of Bernie Sanders, and the eye-popping failure of Hillary Clinton to keep him from the door in Iowa and New Hampshire, seems not so astonishing after all. For Clinton, it wasn’t supposed to be this way against a septuagenarian, self-identified democratic socialist who began his campaign with no national profile and no financial network.
Sanders also noted that one of every two black youths is unemployed or underemployed, a statistic he said was appalling, and said as president he would increase investment in schools and job programs.
Though Sanders is doing well in Iowa and New Hampshire, polls show him running far behind Clinton in SC, primarily because of her overwhelming support among African Americans.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton answers a list of standard job interview questions while Jimmy Fallon evaluates her qualifications for President.
Those same allies and advisors told the Times, on condition of anonymity, that Clinton and her husband are so alarmed by the momentum Sanders has gathered that they are questioning their data and polling teams’ voter turnout models and analysis, wondering whether the support they’re counting on will really show up on February 1. Sanders is popular with liberals who are part of the coalition that Clinton will need to win the White House. “I think Hillary will be extremely strong in SC”.
Clinton has made gun control one of the central themes of her candidacy.
Additionally, it’s opened Hillary up to valid charges of hypocrisy; in the early 1990s, she supported reform that stopped just short of enacting single-payer health care, and she openly supported universal health care when campaigning against Barack Obama in 2008.
Sanders still has an uphill battle, especially after Iowa and New Hampshire. Daughter Chelsea Clinton has offered critical words about Sanders, leading to a back-and-forth over his health care plan. “But we won’t be negative on them”.
But Clinton’s campaign said Sanders, who has said he has never run a negative ad during his political career, had broken his commitment not to engage in negative campaigning.
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“I don’t think I’d make it past the first half hour”, Clinton said.
