Clinton Campaign Underestimated Sanders

Fallon grabbed a clipboard and got right down to it, asking the former secretary of state and current presidential hopeful how she heard about the position.

“We need a president — a Democratic president — to succeed President Obama who has what it takes to get the job done”, she said.

Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders is going back to school in search of black voters with just two weeks before the Iowa Caucuses. “One says its OK to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do”.

“If that’s the case, we’re gonna win every state, if Bernie Sanders is the nominee”.

And after an influx of donations that campaign officials say they receive following Clinton’s attacks on Sanders’s health care plan and gun stance, Team Sanders it not only determined to remain competitive with Clinton on TV in the early states, but is thinking about expanding the number of states where its advertising.

“Your campaign, in my estimation, set its hair on fire a little bit”, Maddow told Clinton, assessing the decision to cast Sanders’ latest campaign ad as his first negative ad of the campaign to be a bit of a reach with only days to go before the first votes of the cycle.

The two candidates, along with former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, will meet Sunday for the last debate before voting begins in the Iowa caucuses — a match-up that’s expected to be far more contentious than their previous three forums. But no names are named, so some sort of plausible deniability is maintained.

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John Podesta, Clinton’s top campaign aide, tweeted Saturday that the campaign “welcomes Senator Sanders’ debate-eve conversion, reversing his vote to immunize gun manufacturers”.

Some leading Democrats are increasingly anxious about Hillary Clinton’s prospects for winning the party’s presidential nomination, warning that Sen.

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.

“You know he’s been fringe for a while, but he’s gaining momentum now, and definitely is now viable as a candidate”.

In the past week, Clinton has shifted course in apparent response to Sanders’ strong poll results.

For the true believers this is no surprise.

Sanders has also been on the campaign trail with author and professor Cornel West, which Salon called”the radical alliance that could change everything”. “That’s not even an issue”, Kasich said, laughing. “You really do have to work hard for it”.