Democratic presidential candidate Sen. The money, Sanders has suggested, undercuts Clinton’s ability to push for the kind of Wall Street reforms needed to avoid a repeat of activities that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis – a notion she vigorously disputes.
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Prior to her loss in Iowa, Clinton held a strong lead in all the other early voting states, including New Hampshire. A new Clinton ad says she would build upon President Barack Obama’s health care law, “not start over”, and defend Planned Parenthood, “not attack it”, messages that reinforce charges she has made against Sanders.
“We will win if the turnout is large”, Sanders said at a Bloomberg Politics breakfast in Des Moines.
Meanwhile in Iowa, Sanders roused Democrats with a moving television ad, one of the best in decades, based on the theme of the Simon and Garfunkel song “America”. If Secretary Clinton wants more debates that’s great.
“Our economy works for Wall Street, because it’s rigged by Wall Street, and that’s the problem”, the narrator says.
“It’s a cynical political ploy in a primary that had until recently been characterized by a respectful back-and-forth about the issues, and it’s not one that’s going to go over well with Iowans”, Paul said.
It came on a day when Sanders’ campaign conducted damage control in Nevada and released the senator’s medical records, something he had vowed to do before the Iowa caucus.
Leaders of the powerful Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas – which remains neutral in the race – condemned Sanders’ campaign staffers who falsely claimed an affiliation with the union as a way to gain access to its members at casino employee dining rooms.
The letter notes that Sanders has, over the years, been treated for conditions ranging from gout to hypothyroidism to diverticulitis. He underwent hernia surgery earlier this year.
Spokesmen for Clinton and Sanders did not respond to emails asking if the two campaigns were now in agreement.
“You are in overall very good health”, Dr. Brian P. Monahan wrote in a letter to Sanders dated January 20.
If Sanders takes the White House, he would be 75 upon inauguration and become the oldest president elected in US history, according to USA Today.
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What the insider Washington Democratic establishment fails to understand is that the issues Sanders raises have great appeal to the broad nation: a free public college education paid for through a Wall Street transaction tax; an increase in Social Security payments (now frozen at least year’s rate for the new year); breaking up big banks and re-instituting reforms initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; dramatic reforms of the criminal justice system.
