Sanders Fires at Clinton Over Email Controversy
Clinton’s advantage was especially strong with African-American voters.
Only 15 percent said they would vote for U.S. Sen.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who has struggled to gain traction in a field dominated by Clinton and Sanders, has also pushed for more stringent gun control.
“African Americans constitute one of the most important constituencies for the Democratic Party”, said Winthrop Poll Director Scott Huffmon.
Of the Clinton supporters polled, 72 percent said she is a solid choice.
“Sanders is not so much declining, but has maximized his potential support and bumping up against his ceiling”, said Ken Goldstein, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and polling analyst for Bloomberg Politics. How many senseless acts of violence do we have to endure as a people before we stand up to the congressional lobbyists of the National Rifle Association? He is also ramping up the attacks on his No. 1 competitor, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In response to the Clinton campaign’s statement, Sanders spokeswoman Symone Sanders (no relation) said: “Bernie Sanders has always said in this campaign that voters deserve to hear about candidate’s position on issues”.
Even though he has attracted large crowds on the campaign trail, Sanders seemed to admit that he is still the underdog in the race, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Well, there is a process that is going on now”, Sanders said.
It is one of the most memorable pieces of political theater thus far in the 2016 Presidential cycle: Bernie Sanders seemingly coming to the defense of Hillary Clinton regarding her email scandal with Bernie saying in the first Democratic debate, “the American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails!”
832 South Carolina residents participated in the telephone survey poll between October 24 and November 1. Subgroups have higher margins of error. The point of that was, Darren, you and the people of Vermont know this. 79 percent of likely Democratic primary voters have a favorable opinion of Clinton, compared to just 10 percent who view her unfavorably. Twenty-three percent speculated that Trump would be the hardest foe for the Democratic nominee, while 38 percent thought he would be the easiest to beat. PPP found she would lose to frontrunner retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson 47 to 43 percent and to Florida Sen.
South Carolina was a crucial win for Barack Obama during his successful 2008 bid for the Democratic nomination. That’s a slight shift since an AP-GfK poll conducted in December 2013, when 52 percent of Americans said gun laws should be made stricter.