4 things to watch for in the Democrats’ debate

Senator Bernie Sanders in Pleasantville, Iowa, January 11, 2016: “Secretary Clinton and her campaign is in serious trouble.and I think a candidate who was originally thought to be the anointed candidate, the inevitable candidate, is now locked in a very hard race here in Iowa and in New Hampshire”.

According to Democrats close to the Clintons and involved with her campaign, Clinton and the former president are also unnerved by the possibility that Sanders will foment a large wave of first-time voters and liberals that will derail her in Iowa, not unlike Barack Obama’s success in 2008, which consigned Hillary Clinton to a third-place finish.

Her campaign is sending out top party representatives, starting with former President Bill Clinton, to make her case in early voting states.

Clinton criticized Sanders for his opposition to bills backed by supporters of gun control.

The Sanders campaign had raised more than $3 million since Tuesday, when Clinton ratcheted up her health care critique. The Kennedys, for example, deployed a horde of kinfolk for Jack’s campaign for president, then Bobby’s, then Teddy’s.

The Sanders campaign said it would also introduce an amendment to Blumenthal and Schiff legislation aimed at protecting small gun sellers.

The most recent SC poll in mid December by CBS News/YouGov gave Clinton a 36-point lead over Sanders, but that was before his latest surge in support and fundraising. The DC Media has done everything it can to make Hillary Clinton president.

Hillary Clinton has always been a problem-solver, though she didn’t always see herself as a future president, her husband told Iowans Friday.

But Clinton’s associations with big banks and Super PAC funding have left a sour taste in the mouths of Democrats looking for money to wield less influence in the country’s politics. Also, Clinton was winning in New Hampshire, whereas Sanders has maintained a sizable lead over her in that key state.

But when it’s the first time (as this was for Clinton the younger), the surrogate should be sure whereof she speaks, and had better stick to talking about her candidate, not the opponent. They are offered impossible choices: “Do they condemn their partners and thereby destroy the legacies and legitimacy they have helped to build, and if they do not, do they become culpable in those partners’ misdeeds?” says Rebecca Traister in Chicago Tribune. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, according a report in the New York Times. I know I just said that national polls are not as important at this stage in the game, but that being said, a respected poll by IBT/TMSS found Sanders within 4 points of Hillary nationally. She has stepped up her criticism of her rival, a self-described democratic socialist, after carefully avoiding that during the campaign. The Sanders stock is trading in the 60 cents range, Clinton is in the 30-40 cents range.

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.

An uncommitted superdelegate, David McDonald of Washington, said that compared with eight years ago, Clinton had a better political operation in his state. While BLM activists have not endorsed Sanders, they already have some common enemies with him, such as Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor, Clinton backer and longtime figure in the Democratic establishment.