The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll of 602 likely Democratic Iowa caucus-goers showed Clinton had 45 percent to Sanders’ 42 percent, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent, meaning the two candidates were statistically tied. “I go around this state of Iowa, I can’t go to a meeting where kids do not tell me – not kids, middle-aged people – how much deeply, how much in debt they are in terms of student debt”, Sanders says.
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The Sanders campaign said “nearly all” the January take came from more than 770,000 online donors, whose donations averaged $27 apiece.
This is a change from what Sanders said in an October Democratic debate: “the American people are sick and tired” of hearing about her “damn emails”. “And I’m not going to politicize that issue”. Giffords’ husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, also joined Clinton, as well as her daughter Chelsea.
Throughout the dispute, Clinton has maintained that she did nothing wrong in conducting State Department business outside of an official server, arguing that it was permitted and that there was precedent for the practice.
“I just have to point out that the timing and some of the leaks that have led up to it are concerning”, Clinton said on ABC’s “This Week”. “We want to see them caucus and vote”.
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Sanders also pointed to the huge gains his campaign has made in Iowa, where he is now in a tight race with Clinton months after starting “50 or 60 points behind” in early polls.
