The Iowa Poll, published by The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg, also found Hillary Clinton with 45 percent support to Sanders’ 42 percent.
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Despite spending more days in Iowa than either of his rivals, the former Maryland governor and Democratic hopeful saw his polling drop to just 3 percent in The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg News Iowa Poll released Saturday – fueling questions about whether he’ll meet the 15 percent threshold at each precinct needed to win a delegate.
Asked whether Rubio could win or come in second, his senior strategist Todd Harris laughingly responded with an obscenity and said the goal in Iowa is third, behind the flamboyant Trump and the highly organized Cruz. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are moving closer to debates in March and beyond, though the party has yet to sign off. This followed the announcement that MSNBC and the New Hampshire Union Leader would host a debate in New Hampshire on February 4 before the Granite State’s first-in-the-nation primary.
Both candidates are likely to do well in Iowa, but even if they lose, the passion they have created has upended the race and perhaps American politics.
“Hillary is tough. Hillary is courageous”, said Giffords. “He is a fantastic dresser, ‘” Sanders dead-panned during a speech in Music Man Square in Mason City, Iowa. “We are inches away”.
On tap, on the menu, and on sale – before Iowans get serious about the caucuses, they’ve got to have a little fun with it. “You’ve got to get out there”. As I traveled around Iowa the last few months, I have heard about and read about what happens when children, young children, toddlers, kids in elementary school, find that loaded gun in the closet, or under the bed. “If you’re sick, you’ve got to get out”.
The poll marked the first time Trump had led in the Iowa Poll since August, but fell in line with other polls that showed him gaining on, and often surpassing Cruz. “I can take it to Hillary Clinton because my life is an open book”. He spoke forcefully against the “machinations” of the big-money in NY and Democratic Party that he sees as supporting Clinton. His mother was a citizen when he was born in Canada. “Essentially, you are all now on the presidential debate stage”.
“I’m going to (hockey) practice and there’s police cars around the rink, ” he said. Both have extremely high favorable ratings among likely Democratic caucus-goers (81% for Clinton, 82% for Sanders), and about seven in 10 each say they would be enthusiastic about either candidate (73% for Clinton, 69% for Sanders).
The details – where and when – remain unresolved, and the Democratic National Committee has not yet agreed to the arrangement, the Clinton and Sanders sources said. She was introduced by former astronaut Mark Kelly and his wife, former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords, who in 2011, was critically wounded in an assassination attempt in Arizona.
Sanders also praised President Obama as doing “a fantastic job” as Clinton tries to drive a wedge between Sanders and Obama.
Politico said that her final poll before the 2008 caucuses accurately predicted that a surge of first-time caucus-goers would help push Barack Obama to victory. Sanders, speaking at a college in Waverly, stuck to his familiar theme of reducing economic inequality and cited his fund-raising operation.
“I never sent an email marked classified”.
“(Republicans) have no understanding of what needs to be done to create more good jobs, put our people to work, and raise incomes. Not sure where? Laudner includes a special tool “to make this process as easy, and fun, as possible” – the “Republican Iowa Caucus Finder”.
Rubio portrayed himself as the most electable Republican who can challenge Clinton, but warned that internal feuding will only doom the GOP in 2016. Cruz is trying to bounce back from what many observers considered a rocky performance in Thursday’s debate. “A follow-up notice may be issued following Monday’s caucuses”.
In recent days the Democratic presidential race has been consumed by whether the party would hold additional debates beyond the six sanctioned ones already scheduled.
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Billionaire New York investor Paul Singer gave $2.5 million, making him one of Rubio’s most generous supporters. We’ll let you guess.
