Iowa voters trust Bernie Sanders more than Hillary Clinton.
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With less than three weeks until voting begins, much of the enthusiasm in the Democratic race appears to reside with Sanders. Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign has started to openly attack Sanders, criticizing his votes on guns as well as his health care position.
Sanders and his aides acknowledge Clinton’s advantage among black Democrats, and the Vermont senator has concentrated ad spending in the state on radio stations aimed at African-Americans.
Trust issues are plaguing Hillary Rodham Clinton owing to the many scandals in her carreer dating all the way back to her days as a lawyer in Arkansas. “And what all of the studies indicate is that payment under a Medicare-for-all single-payer system will be significantly less than what middle class families today are paying for health insurance”. “He’s introduced legislation nine times that laid out a very specific plan to take everybody’s healthcare and roll it into a great big bundle and hand it to the states, but my view is we shouldn’t be ripping up Obamacare and starting over, we should be building on it”.
However, the assumption Sanders was simply good debating practice for Clinton disappeared quite a while ago.
“One says it’s OK to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do”.
Sanders, speaking to reporters in Hanover, New Hampshire, dismissed the Clinton charges. In the survey, 48 percent of Democratic primary voters supported Clinton compared with 41 percent for Sanders.
Clinton campaign senior strategist Joel Benenson said the Sanders ad marked a “new phase” in the campaign but would not commit to responding in turn with a similar ad. The campaign noted that Sanders pulled a digital ad in December that the senator felt fell into a “gray area” of negative campaigning.
Earlier this week, Clinton’s campaign also released a television ad that implicitly went after Sanders.
Clinton campaign aides said scoffed at the notion that the ad is not directed squarely at Clinton, with some feeling the Wall Street line is more of a personal critique of Clinton – questioning her commitment to her platform – than an attack on a policy position.
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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.
