Clinton responds to Trump’s personal attacks

An NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll indicated the former first lady led the liberal Vermont senator by just three points in Iowa (48 to 45 percent), with Martin O’Malley picking up just 5 percent of the vote. And Sanders holds wider leads in the states over current GOP front-runner Donald Trump.

In New Hampshire, where the race has always been more competitive, Sanders is leading Clinton by four points-50 percent to 46 percent.

Bill Clinton campaigns for his wife, Hillary Clinton, during a rally last week at the Hotel Julien in Dubuque, Iowa.

The poll of 1,006 registered voters was conducted January 4-7 via landlines and cellphones with an overall margin of error of 3 percentage points.

The ad then cuts to video of Clinton at her 11-hour Benghazi testimony and on the campaign trail.

The polls also show that Sanders performs better in head-to-head matchups with Republicans Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio than Clinton does, giving his campaign ammunition to rebut Clinton’s argument that she is more electable in a general election.

In New Hampshire, Trump leads with 30% support – more than double any other candidate’s backing.

In 2008, the Senate passed a resolution declaring Senator John McCain, a Republican presidential candidate, a natural born citizen.

President Barack Obama’s executive action on guns has sparked a new wave of attacks and counter-attacks between Sanders and Clinton on the issue. Though Clinton is extremely well known among voters, Sanders, Rubio, and Cruz are still building name recognition with voters.

New Hampshire pollers favored Sanders, putting him ahead of all major GOP candidates by at least 9 percent, but showed Clinton struggling against possible future opponents.

While Sanders aides expected the race to intensify, the sudden escalation surprised some advisers after months of a largely timid back-and-forth, particularly compared to the raucous Republican contest.

The endorsement continues a string of high profile Democratic endorsements for Clinton, who has effectively positioned much of the Democratic establishment around her.

“She was – some of the women have been totally destroyed”, he said.

Host Chris Wallace went on to say there are some questioning Trump’s strategy and that it could backfire, to which Trump added that she wasn’t a victim, but an enabler. Broaddrick called it a cruel irony that Hillary Clinton had pressed for “rape victims to be believed” while, Broaddrick said, Clinton had tried to squelch her husband’s accusers.