Wins by Sanders in Iowa and New Hampshire could be game changers, proving – as President Barack Obama did by winning Iowa in 2008 against Clinton – that Sanders is electable and shift the tides in SC in his favor, Sanders’ S.C. director Chris Covert says.
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It’s an issue he will have to address beginning at Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina. Finally, she was definitely not prepared to see Bernie Sanders gaining so much popularity between young voters and independents, especially women, whom she initially relied a lot on.
Sanders tends to get support from liberal Democrats while centrists prefer Clinton, but the endorsements this week don’t fit that pattern precisely.
In the past week, Clinton has shifted course in apparent response to Sanders’ strong poll results.
“He’s definitely my favorite president”, Blen Alemayehu of Iowa City said about the former president who has been busy on the campaign trail as the as the race has tightened in the closing weeks. Read my report from Sanders events in Iowa to learn more about what’s happening there.
But the Clintons also believe she can survive losses in both places because of the strength of her political organization and support in the February 27 primary in SC and in many March1 Super Tuesday states.
Sen. Bernie Sanders seems to have thrown a tough challenge at the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Rep. Adam Schiff, one of the Democrats behind the new bill to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), said Sanders’s backing of the bill puts him among those trying to correct a “serious mistake”.
Both say they support Obama’s actions expanding the number of background checks before gun purchases by requiring more sellers – including those at stores, gun shows and on the Internet – to get licenses. Hillary Clinton is concerned about her “rational message”, which isn’t necessary adequate for a restless Democratic primary electorate.
Clinton and her husband believe she can still win the February 1 caucuses in Iowa and the February 9 primary in New Hampshire even though Sanders is virtually tied with her in many polls.
“I’m pleased that this legislation is being introduced”, Sanders said in a statement. “Will they like me?” In national polls, as The New York Times noted recently, Sanders has eclipsed Clinton’s once seemingly insurmountable lead. Monday, he will appear at a King Day rally in Birmingham, Alabama, with Cornel West and Nina Turner, a former OH legislator who made waves when she jumped from Clinton to Sanders last fall.
“The best economic times for my family were when Bill Clinton was president”, said Madeline Smeaton, a graduate student in Keene whose father lost her job in the Great Recession.
Bernie Sanders is all the rage again. “She has responded to the populist temper of the times: questioning the sort of free-trade deals that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have championed; calling for reforms on Wall Street and tax increases on the wealthy; courageously defending Planned Parenthood; challenging the National Rifle Association; and supporting trade unions”, the editorial said. And he talked about how she worked with unfriendly Republican members of Congress when she was first lady and then a US senator.
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In 2008, Clinton and Obama split the party apparatus. She has stepped up her criticism of her rival, a self-described democratic socialist, after carefully avoiding that during the campaign.
