Considered to be vying with front-runner Donald Trump for Iowa victory Monday, Cruz denounced the next in line, according to polls, sharply challenging Rubio’s conservative credentials on the airwaves while ignoring him face to face with Iowans.
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Bernie Sanders rallied supporters in Iowa with political red meat Saturday, highlighting his ideological purity on issues of concern to liberals and saying he would not let Hillary Clinton “distort” his record.
Watch as Matt Smith anchors our coverage from Des Moines, including reaction from the candidates, Iowa voters and perspective from analysts on the ground in Iowa, along with a look at who’s made the trip from in to help the candidates and research this year’s election. Clinton’s campaign requested that one of the additional debates be held in Flint, Michigan, which has been dealing with a crisis involving lead contamination in the city’s water supply. Ted Cruz, R-Fla., greets people outside his campaign event in Ida Grove, Iowa, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016. Ted Cruz in what is likely to be the final major poll before the Iowa caucuses, while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are virtually tied.
“We have consistently worked with our campaigns to ensure a schedule that is robust and that allows them to engage with voters in a variety of ways, whether through debates, forums, town halls, but also leaving them the flexibility to attend county fairs and living room conversations in states like Iowa and New Hampshire where direct voter contact matters so much”, she said.
He credited “Jerry’s incredible spirit and endorsement”.
MANCHESTER, Iowa (AP) – In a final frenzy to inspire supporters to turn out for Monday’s Iowa caucuses, the presidential contenders scrambled to close the deal with the first voters to have a say in the 2016 race for the White House.
Bauer reported from Ames, Iowa.
Sanders, meanwhile, is enjoying his highest mark in a Bloomberg Politics/Register poll.
“We’ve come so far”, the email reads.
On Saturday evening, The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics survey found Trump leading Sen. “Especially when our numbers against Republicans are so strong”.
Forty-five percent said they could still be persuaded.
News on Friday that the State Department designated 22 of the emails Hillary Clinton sent or received on her private server as “top secret” gave Republicans fresh reasons to attack her as they compete for their party’s nomination.
“The desperation kicks in”, Rubio said in response. The rest have positive ratings below 50%. In testy statements, the Clinton and Sanders campaigns publicly aired their demands for site locations, underscoring tensions between the two sides in the days before Monday’s leadoff Iowa caucuses.
“For Trump to have come back to seize the lead, now that’s an interesting story, so he’s doing well”, said J. Ann Selzer, who conducted the Iowa Poll.
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Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign received a boost with the influential New York Times endorsing her in the Democratic presidential primary describing her as “one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history”. In the Democratic caucus, Clinton leads Sen. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, New Jersey Sen.
