Hillary Clinton: “I’m not intimidated by Donald Trump”

The contest was certain to intensify this weekend, with the Democratic candidates gathering in Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday night for a party dinner and the annual fish fry hosted by Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. Then there’s the Sunday night debate, the final one before the Iowa caucuses on February 1.

The debate was scheduled to take place just blocks from the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where nine parishioners were killed in a mass shooting last summer. In 2008, she was already trailing at this point in the race.

Advisers to Hillary Clinton, believe that her campaign made serious miscalculations by forgoing early attacks on Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and failing to undercut his message before it grew into a political movement that has now put him within striking distance of beating her in Iowa and New Hampshire. Like Thursday’s Republican debate, the Democrats also are meeting in SC, an influential state early in the nominating process.

“I wish that we could elect a Democratic president who could wave a magic wand and say, ‘We shall do this, and we shall do that, ‘ ” Clinton said this week in Iowa.

Democrats close to the Clinton campaign claim that the results in Iowa can be influenced by a wave of first-time voters and liberals. Brock, a former conservative journalist who cozied up to the Clintons in the 2000s, frequently appears on TV to defend Clinton.

But should Sanders prevail in those first two states on the 2016 campaign calendar, Clinton’s bid to succeed President Barack Obama may mean a much longer and messier path than her supporters once envisioned. She added that the charges were “actually founded in what we can discern about what he would do” as president.

Sanders, for his part, has said Clinton would not be tough enough regulating Wall Street banks and said he would be more likely to win against a Republican in a general election in November. “Almost everybody in America understands that we have got to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them”.

Students will have the opportunity to meet with Sanders and his campaign officials as well as with influential Black leaders in their communities. “Your campaign is essentially fighting with him now in a way that is casting aspersions on his character, calling him dishonest”, Maddow told Clinton. Her campaign has attempted to make the vote a major issue in the race, along with Sanders’ proposal for a single-payer health care system, which Clinton has attacked as unrealistic.

Over the past several months, Sanders has repeatedly said he’d revisit his 2005 vote for the PLCAA, which protects gun manufacturers from most lawsuits created to hold them liable for gun deaths. This compares to the results of a December 15 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University showing Clinton at 51 percent, with 40 percent for Sanders.