Chelsea Clinton visits New Hampshire backing mom’s campaign

Sanders has opposed Califf over pharmaceutical prices.

McCaskill said it’s time for Clinton to more sharply show the contrast between the two of them.

With the Iowa caucuses 20 days away, the USA presidential contest was on the boil Tuesday, with several candidates barnstorming the heartland state and New Hampshire as they jockey for early bragging rights in the race to the November 2016 general election.

Clinton accepted the endorsement here of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and used the occasion to tear into Sanders for his 2005 Senate vote that gave immunity to gun manufacturers.

But momentum can be an unpredictable force in politics and at that point her entire theory of victory will be predicated on Sanders’ weakness with black and Hispanic voters.

If Sanders is to tout his willingness to stand up to special interests, Clinton said at her events that Sanders should “stand up to the most powerful special interest, stand up to that gun lobby”. But if I lived in a state that had a Republican governor, particularly a Republican governor who already turned down Medicaid expansion matching funds, I don’t think I would be comfortable, right?

“This is truly an existential moment for our country and for the country that we want to be”, Clinton said. However, among those who had caucused before, 52 percent support Clinton and 41 percent support Sanders.

“I’ve learned never to say no, but I can’t imagine one”. I have a plan and implementing it in Iowa and New Hampshire and feel good about it and now it’s two plus weeks until we know.

Clinton’s objection centers on ostensible concerns that by requiring states to administer their own single-payer systems, Sanders would leave residents of Republican-governed states behind.

Clinton compared her stance with Sanders on guns, health care and Wall Street. She also came out against the Obama administration’s raids targeting Central American immigrants who entered the USA illegally and ignored deportation orders. This is the first time she’s fallen below the 50 percent threshold in the CBS/New York Times survey.

“Given that Secretary Clinton had a solid 10-point lead over Senator Sanders in the last three Quinnipiac Polls in Iowa shows that things have changed”, Brown said. In 2008, she took third in the state behind both then-Sen. A Monmouth poll Tuesday found Clinton losing to Sanders by 14 points in New Hampshire – while a new Quinnipiac poll reported that Clinton was trailing by five points in Iowa. The same survey showed Clinton leading in a 51-40 percent match-up just a month ago.

Clinton has attacked her socialist challenger for voting against certain gun control measures, and has warned ominously of the political “revolution” that he promises.