Hillary Clinton is joined by Demi Lovato at a campaign event in Iowa City, Iowa, on January 21, 2016. “He is just so new”, she said of Sanders.
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Polls in New Hampshire have consistently shown him leading Clinton in the state that will hold the first primary of the presidential campaign on February 9.
As recent as last month, Clinton led Sanders by 18 percentage points in a CNN/ORC poll, 54% to 36%. “I need you”, Clinton said Thursday during a speech where she acknowledged that she knows “what it is like to be knocked down”.
Clinton also has an overwhelming advantage among the so-called “superdelegates” of party leaders and elected officials. As Mashable explained, Hillary might have gone a little too far recently.
Among Hollywood’s Clinton supporters were Scandal star Tony Goldwyn and actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who will be traveling across Iowa over the weekend to rally support for Clinton, according to the Washington Post.
‘I feel very positive about the organization we’ve built, the enthusiasm and energy of the people who are literally showing up in below-freezing temperatures to canvass for me, ‘ Clinton told NPR in an interview Wednesday.
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer, for example, has even promoted Sanders as the victor of Democratic debates and has taunted the Clinton campaign for “getting schooled by a nutty [Vermont] socialist”.
CNN/ORC surveyed 2,002 Iowa adults by telephone January 15 to January 20, including 266 likely Republican presidential caucus-goers and 280 likely Democratic presidential caucus-goers. “I engaged in long, patient diplomacy to put together the sanctions on Iran that finally brought them to the negotiation table and actually began the preliminary negotiations that the President and Secretary (John) Kerry continued to completion”.
“In theory, there are a lot of things to like about his ideas. I am not interested in ideas that sound good on paper but will never make it in real life”, Clinton said to the audience.
In other words, whatever voters may think of the relative merits of shifting from the Affordable Care Act to a single-payer system, the notion of a complete overhaul is unrealistic. And the Human Rights Campaign has been in the forefront of making sure that LGBT Americans are not discriminated against. Accordinig to Slate, Sanders doesn’t care.
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After an Iowa town-hall event Tuesday, Sanders made the point to reporters that former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served under President George W. Bush, also had foreign-policy experience. According to the Huffington Post, it is a 60 second spot which includes the song “America” by Simon & Garfunkel. “Here’s an area where I think Secretary Clinton and I have a strong difference of opinion”. “Republicans win elections when turnout is low”, warned Sanders.
