Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by 14% in New Hampshire
US Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton suffered a major setback in her presidential campaign as her rival Bernie Sanders took lead in the latest opinion polls in two key primary States of Iowa and New Hampshire. Bernie Sanders” “Field of Dreams, ‘ Peter A. Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a statement.
The Monmouth poll is the second poll to find Sanders with a commanding lead in New Hampshire, though the RealClearPolitics average of polls gives Sanders a much smaller 4.3 percent lead in the early primary state.
The advocacy group said that 78.6 percent of its members supported the Vermont senator, according to an online poll of more than 340,000 participants.
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaks during a camp … In Dubuque, Clinton said she hoped that Sanders “hurries up” and releases more details of his tax plan “because you deserve to see the comparisons side-by-side”. On Tuesday, pollsters at Monmouth University announced that they found Sanders leads Clinton 53-39 in the Granite State.
“A candidate who was originally thought to be the anointed candidate, to be the inevitable candidate, is now locked in a very hard race here in Iowa and New Hampshire”, said Mr Sanders on Monday.
She is also campaigning with high-profile surrogates – including the heads of Planned Parenthood and the Brady Campaign, highlighting her support on women’s health issues and gun control, as well as Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, who underscores Clinton’s ties to President Barack Obama’s administration.
“Today he clarified what he said and said he was talking about me when I was secretary of state”, Clinton said.
“I wish that we could elect a Democrat who could wave a magic wand and say, ‘We shall do this and we shall do that.’ That ain’t the real world we’re living in!”
Hillary Clinton is turning her stump speech into a near constant attack on Vermont Sen.
The Public Policy Polling survey asked questions of 580 likely Democratic caucus-goers between January 8-10 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, has pushed into the lead in Iowa less than three weeks before the caucus there.
Quite a few of the Bernie Sanders supporters out there say that they would never be able to support Hillary Clinton in the general election if she wins the Democratic nomination.
The candidate has herself sharpened her attacks on Mr Sanders, as more than one poll puts him ahead of her in the crucial state of Iowa.