Bernie Sanders Surges To Take The Lead Over Hillary Clinton In Iowa

Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.). So if Sanders can capitalize on this momentum, he might just stand a fighting chance against Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“You [Bernie Sanders] voted for what the NRA said was the biggest NRA priority giving them immunity, and he says, “Well, I’m from Vermont”, she said, according to the Associated Press. “I happen not to be one of them. You’re putting your word out there of what you want to do”, said Nebel.

The slim lead for Sanders in Iowa is fueled in large part to a gender gap.

“If that’s the kind of revolution he’s talking about, I am anxious folks, “Clinton told a crowd, critiquing Sanders’ health care plan”. My hunch is that Warren, by dint of her age, her stature among progressives, and her ability to neutralize Hillary’s “first woman president” shtick, would actually be running ahead of Sanders if she had jumped in early to fill the role of far-left challenger to the Clintons. I am stunned watching Chelsea Clinton go on the attack.

He disputed the notion, put forward by Chelsea Clinton, that his plan would give outsized influence to state governors, a majority of whom are Republicans.

On the Democratic side, Clinton remains the frontrunner nationally, but she is being tested by Sanders, an independent senator and self-described democratic socialist.

“This is truly an existential moment for our country and for the country that we want to be”, Clinton said. Last month, the same pollster found Clinton with 51% and Sanders with 40%.

Clinton began advertising in August, three months ahead of Sanders, and over the entire contest has outspent him by about $3 million, the CMAG data show. But on Tuesday, her speech was different, with more sustained and focused knocks on the unlikely front-runner in Iowa and New Hampshire. “Sanders’s proposals going back nine times in Congress, that’s exactly what he proposed – to take everything we currently know as healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, the CHIP program, private insurance and now the Affordable Care Act, and roll it together”.

No Democratic candidate has called out a rival by name in TV ads.

The moderators from news site Fusion, got right down to business when one asked O’Malley why more than 80 percent of his campaign staff is White. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign, noted that the two candidates diverged on the landmark Brady handgun bill, which imposed a five-day waiting period for gun purchases.

HEILEMANN: So Mark, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton beating up on Bernie Sanders.

Biden said Sanders is making improvements to his position. But in a Democratic forum on Monday night, he doubled down on his defense of his vote on the controversial bill.“Its not a mistake.

“It’s not a mistake”. Like many pieces of legislation, it is complicated, ” he said. “But on the issue of guns, let me be very clear I support the president”. On Tuesday, Sanders also claimed an endorsement from the liberal grassroots group MoveOn.org Political Action.

It appears that Clinton’s support has dropped, but according to Breitbart, she still has an edge over other Republican candidates – at least against Jeb Bush.