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”.
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If Hillary Clinton can’t fend off the insurgency from Bernie Sanders in Iowa, Colorado would become a more important battleground in the race for the Democratic nomination.
Speaking to a Dubuque crowd Saturday, Trump encouraged the group to attend even if a storm arrives early, saying: “You’re from Iowa”.
The billionaire reality TV star said he was confident of taking New Hampshire and many other contests down the road.
The mother of four could break for either party because Iowans can switch registration when they arrive at their caucus sites Monday night. Next was Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at 23 percent, down from 25 percent. Ted Cruz, whom he holds a slight lead over in the latest Des Moines Register / Bloomberg Politics poll.
The Republican poll by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center has businessman Trump with 30 percent, far ahead of U.S. Sen.
“The reason that I see conservatives uniting behind our campaign is they’re looking for a consistent conservative”, Cruz said.
“I don’t have to win it”, Trump told CBS’ “Face the Nation”, before adding that he believes he has “a good chance” of victory.
On the Democratic side, Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who caucuses with the Democrats, is depending on nthusiastic young voters to turn up in greater numbers at the caucuses.
Voters under 45 gave Sanders a big edge, while Clinton won among older voters.
$20 million in January: The Sanders campaign raised $20 million in January, “almoast all from online contributions averaging about $27 a piece”, the campaign announced Sunday. “But after 11 hours of testimony, answering every single question, in public, which I have requested for many months, I think it’s pretty clear they’re grasping at straws”. “I close the deal”, Trump added.
Trump attended services in the non-denominational First Christian Orchard Campus in Council Bluffs with his wife, Melania, and two staffers.
Melania Trump took Communion from a silver tray, but Trump thought it was a collection plate and reached into his pocket to donate before realizing his mistake.
The self-proclaimed democratic socialist said his campaign is starting to make the “establishment” nervous.
Today was Rubio’s last stop in Iowa. And “Cruz’s campaign isn’t about constitutional principles; it’s about ambition”, the Times said. He said Rubio “broke his promise to the American people” by walking away from the immigration bill he helped negotiate. “Amnesty. The Republican Obama”. Recent precedent shows that Cruz could overtake Donald Trump to capture first place. Rubio went on to say he’s the Republican Party’s best bet to expand their voter base. “We need someone who can lead us in a way that looks out for all our interests”.
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And Pete D’Alessandro, who directs Sanders’ Iowa operation, said that “when Sen”.
