One day after lighting into her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination in Iowa, Hillary Clinton conspicuously avoided mentioning Bernie Sanders during an hour-long town hall meeting Friday in a Rochester, New Hampshire, opera house. Her latest tactic? Asking if he is now, or has ever been, a member of the Communist Party.
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The Sanders campaign has tried to flip that argument, pointing to a national general election poll that showed Sanders beating Trump by a wider margin than Clinton. They also overestimated Mrs. Clinton’s skill as a candidate.
The pressure on her Iowa operation was ratcheted up even more on Tuesday when a CNN/WMUR New Hampshire poll found Clinton down by 27 points to Vermont Sen.
“It’s really outrageous the way Republicans try to block everything we try to do”, she said, “to make progress and solve problems in our country”.
The comments follow days of criticism from representatives of NARAL, Planned Parenthood and other progressive groups that have endorsed Clinton that Sanders lumped in as part of the Democratic Party “establishment” in an interview withMSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night.
Earlier Thursday, Clinton’s campaign released a video where a senior policy aide argues the Vermont senator is unprepared on Iran. It’s the first step in the complicated Democratic process meant to rule out candidates considered to be un-viable.
“I don’t think there is a woman more confident than Hillary Clinton”, Lovato told the cheering crowd inside an auditorium at the University of Iowa. If O’Malley were dropped from the running in the caucuses, 43 percent say they would caucus for Sanders, while 20 percent would go to bat for Clinton.
“We have different records and different ideas”, she said. Some Republicans, reports USA Today, are using his success to embarrass Hillary Clinton.
“I know Senator Sanders cares about covering more people, as I do, but rather build on the progress that has been made, he wants to start over from scratch with a whole new system”, she said.
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Clinton needs to “rebound in a big way”, Markay said, or Sanders’ momentum could carry him to getting more donor cash. “It is not all fun and games”. Clinton won New Hampshire in 2008. “And when he does, it raises concerns, because sometimes it can sound like he hasn’t thought it through”.
