Clinton and Sanders Set for High-Stakes Democratic Debate

“In the debates, she has shined, and while conventional wisdom says they offer no upside to a front-runner, she would benefit from more”, said Carter Eskew, a Democratic strategist who was a senior adviser to Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000.

Clinton enters the fourth Democratic debate looking to mimic the first.

Sanders said Saturday that he supports legislation that would weaken a 2005 law protecting gun manufacturers and dealers from lawsuits when their firearms are used in crimes. Due to the fact that the three previous Democratic debates were scheduled by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairperson and former 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign co-chair, to be on nights and at times that would produce as few viewers as possible, I urge everyone to tune in.

Clinton and Sanders are locked in a tight contest to win the Iowa caucuses just 15 days after the debate, and the New Hampshire primary on February 9. It will be held at the Gaillard Center, down the street from the Emanuel AME Church where nine African Americans were fatally shot by confessed killer Dylan Roof last June.

Politico reported that the call will be combined with continued criticisms of Sanders’s support of single-payer healthcare, which Clinton’s campaign says would require raising taxes on the middle class in order to fund.

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Sunday once again attacked rival Bernie Sanders over the issue of gun control, but instead of hitting him for being on the wrong side of the debate, she accused him of “flip-flopping” to the right one.

Clinton has been criticizing Sanders’s vote for the 2005 bill since October, but her criticisms-and his desire to shore up his credibility with on an issue that resonates with many Democratic primary voters-gained new urgency as Sanders gained on Clinton in the polls.

Winning South Carolina would set up Clinton to win the Democratic nomination, said College of Charleston political scientist Gibbs Knotts, adding a Clinton victory also is the most likely outcome in South Carolina, where some Democrats tend to be more conservative.

Also, Sanders performs better than Clinton against Trump in a general election match-up.

While the mainstream… hmm, I think this election will prove we are the mainstream, so let’s re-phrase that: While the corporate media wants you to still believe that Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president, evidence shows the opposite. Recently, it was over gun control.

“What we must do is bring this country together around those provisions that the vast majority of people support”, he said. “Either we stand with the gun lobby, or we join the president and stand up to them”.

As Hillary Clinton fends off a rising challenge from Bernie Sanders, his wife’s campaign aides are grappling with how best to deploy what she has described as her “not-so-secret weapon”.

“I’m not going there”, Bill Clinton said on Wednesday, when asked about Sanders at a campaign event in New Hampshire.

Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver rejected the idea that Sanders had changed his position on the legislation. The campaign plans to release a doctor’s note before the Iowa caucuses, according to an aide.

But Brock’s group is allowed to coordinate directly with the Clinton campaign and has mobilized against Sanders before, often doing the messy work that the Clinton team avoids doing itself.

Clinton dispatched a fleet of top surrogates to early voting states, including former Obama Cabinet officials, mayors, party leaders and her family, former President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea.