Clinton reaching back into 2008 playbook
The Iowa caucuses are on February 1, and the New Hampshire primary is on February 9.
The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll released Thursday morning shows Clinton with the support of 42 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers, compared to 40 percent for Sanders. “And I think that that’s what raised some eyebrows”, Clinton said on MSNBC.
“The goal of Democrats holding on to the White House in 2016 is being made more hard every second the Clinton campaign continues to distort the facts on Bernie Sanders’s strong record against gun violence and attack a core progressive idea like universal healthcare”, Chamberlain wrote in a statement.
Campaign officials in ME said they’ve heard from people who are willing to drive to New Hampshire to volunteer.
Clinton has reiterated her support for the Buffett rule, named after billionaire investor and Clinton endorser Warren Buffett, which would institute a minimum tax rate of 30 per cent on those earning more than $1 million per year.
Bill Curry, a former advisor to President Bill Clinton, said that endorsements from groups like the Working Families Party, MoveOn.org, and Democracy for America gives Sanders a “field-in-a-box”.
Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said in an interview that the ad is not an attack. “You better believe it”. “I’m looking for a team”, she said.
The Clinton campaign this week has also gone after Sanders for his proposal to replace Obamacare with a single-payer health care system (some call it “Medicare for all”). Clinton changes strategy National polls have shown Clinton the country’s top diplomat during President Barack Obama’s first term from 2009 to 2013 with a commanding lead over Sanders.
Trust issues are plaguing Hillary Rodham Clinton owing to the many scandals in her carreer dating all the way back to her days as a lawyer in Arkansas.
And in a call with reporters on Wednesday afternoon, Clinton campaign officials called on the Sanders to reveal details about his health care plan before the Iowa caucus, according to USA Today.
Clinton’s situation in New Hampshire is also worse than in 2008.
Clinton campaign senior strategist Joel Benenson said the Sanders ad marked a “new phase” in the campaign but would not commit to responding in turn with a similar ad. The campaign noted that Sanders pulled a digital ad in December that the senator felt fell into a “gray area” of negative campaigning.