Hilary Clinton Gets Last Laugh at GOP Debate on Tonight Show

The three candidates have sparred in past debates, but with the temperature rising and candidates launching full-frontal attacks against each other regularly on the campaign trail, Sunday night’s contest will likely have a sharper tone.

With the Iowa caucuses a couple of weeks away, there are few levers Clinton’s campaign can pull to slow Sanders down.

Winning Iowa remains paramount at this moment, and there is still confidence among Clinton loyalists that the ground operation there is sturdy enough to withstand the challenge from Sanders.

Polls now show Sanders with a comfortable lead in New Hampshire. He’s made reinstating Glass-Stegall, a Depression-era banking law repealed under Bill Clinton’s administration, a central attack line of his campaign.

There are several reasons why Bernie Sanders could easily be seen as the more electable candidate than Hillary Clinton, making a Bernie Sanders presidency, some believe, inevitable.

Clinton’s campaign complained this past week when Sanders aired an ad that suggested Clinton wouldn’t be tough enough on Wall Street. Given her many advantages, like rich donors and widespread support from Democratic Party elites, she is also surprised Sanders’ fund-raising has rivaled hers and that her experience – along with her potential to make history as the first woman president – has not galvanized more voters.

Just as Republicans in North Charleston talked a lot about Iowa, Democrats have reason to do so, too.

After enjoying nearly two years as the front-runner in the Democratic nomination race, Clinton now finds herself neck and neck with Sanders in Iowa. Although Clinton has maintained a strong national lead in the primary race, a new Monmouth University poll revealed that she is trailing the Vermont senator by 14 points in New Hampshire, an important early voting state. But it wasn’t until the primary season was well under way that Clinton began overtly picking apart Obama’s plan, which, unlike hers, did not call for a health care insurance mandate (as President Obama would later support a mandate.) In 2016, Clinton isn’t pulling any punches.

That’s a weird claim to make about Sanders – a self-described socialist who has long supported a single-payer, (i.e., the government) health care system.

Fallon did, however, give Hillary Clinton the same sort of mock job interview he gave Trump earlier in the week. But in this glorious country of ours, We The People still matter, and due to that inconvenient truth, Democrats are now panicking as they watch a repeat of 2008. In Hillary Clinton’s case, damaging investigations are occurring in the middle of her campaign.

MARK HALPERIN: Let’s see what happens in the first two states.

It didn’t hurt Sanders either that Biden told CNN the Vermont senator is doing a “heck of a job” and has “authenticity” and “credibility” on income inequality. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley in a Sunday evening debate, meanwhile, told Fallon that she finds it “exciting” to be in a close race for the party’s nomination.