Sanders allows he’d lose Democratic primary if held today

Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to attendees of a Democratic debate in Des Moines, Iowa, November 14, 2015.

“I want to do this right and get results”, Clinton said during a riff about the terrorist attacks that rocked Paris last week.

The next day, he endorsed Sen. “Well, it’s official”, she said.

The front-runner told Democrats gathered at a rally in North Charleston that she has the “toughest” proposals for dealing with Wall Street. “I go after the hedge funds, big insurance companies, shadow banking”. Sanders favors its restoration.

Clinton lived in Arkansas for almost two decades, which could explain a slight perceived change in her voice.

A few in the crowd had waited on their feet for hours after Sanders spoke to make their presence known during Clinton’s speech. But in campaign stops in Tennessee and SC, she focused on health care and a plan to give middle-class families as much as $5,000 in tax credits for unexpected out-of-pocket health-care costs. Sanders believes in “socialism”, O’Malley said, adding it was “a failed ideology from our past”.

“My parents had a saying in Spanish – “Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres” – which means, ‘Tell me who you’re hanging with and I’ll tell you who you are, ‘” said Alma Gonzalez, an uncommitted superdelegate from Florida. Provide living wages for working people. “These are major concerns”.

There is no way that Hillary Clinton is going to support single payer. She also proposes to make sure fines for corporate wrongdoing hit executive bonuses, and to pursue criminal prosecutions when justified.

Polls shows Sanders trailing far behind Clinton in SC, but he said he is making progress. “Let’s make this party what the country needs”, he said.

Among adults of all political persuasions, 42 percent now say they hold a favorable opinion of Clinton, up from 38 percent in September.

O’Malley also has his own problems.

At a forum Saturday in SC, Hillary Clinton sought to sharpen the distinctions between her candidacy for president and that of Sen.

During a speech at LeMoyne-Owen College earlier this week, a few people claimed the Democratic presidential candidate’s voice had something of a southern twang.

Bashing Wall Street is not an automatic win for Sanders, however.

Sanders and his team already are trying to tailor individualized strategies for winning states where the crucial early balloting will be held, a move that the poll suggests is a wise one; the latest findings reinforce the notion that the iconoclastic senator, who has drawn huge crowds with his populist message and non-blow-dried presentation, can’t count on a tide of curiosity and enthusiasm to carry him past the well- prepared, well-funded front-runner. “Absolutely”, she said. “That’s why I’m going to be fighting for tax cuts that help hard-working families get ahead”. Sanders has been criticizing “the corrupt economy symbolized by Wall Street greed” for decades, she said. “He walks the talk”.