“I was really touched and gratified when I saw that”, said Clinton, who has touted her close ties with Obama on the campaign trail and cast herself as best positioned to build on the president’s policies.
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“We are all less safe as a result”, said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Although Hillary Clinton has not secured a public endorsement from President Barack Obama, she has stacked up a number of endorsements from his administration.
Hillary Clinton has a 6 percentage point lead over Bernie Sanders in Iowa, a new poll out just one week before the state’s caucuses shows. Some of the Republican candidates, such as Kentucky Sen. Sanders, meanwhile, implicitly suggests that Obama did not go far enough and proposes sweeping new government initiatives on state-run health care, regulating Wall Street and addressing income inequality.
Sanders is scheduled to speak at Monday night’s Democratic forum, hosted by CNN.
About halfway through her report, Vega explained that along Bernie Sanders consistently drawing bigger crowds than Clinton, “the grueling pace” was “seeming to catch up with her today” as Clinton paused and coughed during a speech in Des Moines to take a drink of water and tell the audience that “you do talk a lot in this campaign”.
Only independents and younger voters, however, give Sanders a significant edge over the former secretary of state. But on the town hall stage on Monday, she pushed back at Sanders’ judgment argument by evoking Obama, who remains popular with Democratic voters and was critical of her Iraq War vote when the two competed in 2008.
In the ad, Sanders says “there are those who say we can not defeat a corrupt political system and fix a rigged economy”.
The 74-year-old Sanders pledged to release his medical records before Iowa votes, saying there’s nothing in the papers that will surprise anybody.
“You’re ashamed all the time”, said Carrie Aldrich, 46, who teared up as she told Sanders about living on less than $10,000 a year as she struggles with a disability.
-Obama said Clinton “can start here, day one, more experienced than any non-vice president has ever been who aspires to this office”. She said she wanted to speak up because “I want people to know they’re not alone out there”.
“That has an appeal and I understand it”, Obama said, adding: “I think that what Hillary presents is a recognition that translating values into governance and delivering the goods is ultimately the job of politics”.
O’Malley was pushed on what his supporters should do on caucus night if – under the quirks of the Iowa process – they don’t reach a minimum level of support in their local precinct.
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But O’Malley said his message was simply: “Hold strong at your caucus”.
