Contemplative Clinton hits Iowa in final sprint to caucuses

In an attempt to draw crowds, stir enthusiasm and perhaps bring in new supporters, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is releasing an “all-star” team of surrogates as she hopes to push her way to victory in Iowa and New Hampshire, The Hill reports. Sanders has an unusual draw in the state that could pull a large amount of voters who may have otherwise supported Trump’s more traditional Republican challengers come primary day.

In the past two weeks, the race for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination has evolved from relatively civil disagreement over policy into a contentious winter competition between Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont.

He will need to establish new alliances with black and Latino voters who overwhelmingly back Clinton, particularly in the South. This will possibly be the most hard part of the primary, and Sanders has recently been working to try to crack the “firewall” in Clinton’s southern support.

All the candidates are in Iowa or New Hampshire today except Donald Trump. To that, Clinton said she would help defeat ISIS, and send advisors to help train troops and supply air strikes, but would not allow ground troops to be involved in the war.

“We have different records and different ideas”, she said.

Clinton, meanwhile, plans events for tomorrow. Sanders polls higher among women and Millennials, who were previously thought a solid voting block for Clinton.

It is against this backdrop that Ms. Clinton went the whole hog in embracing the Obama legacy in the Democratic debate recently, followed up with her essay. “Certainly, Sen. Sanders has been drawing lots of contrast for quite some time – which it won’t surprise you to hear me say, I think are not particularly well-founded, but nevertheless, that’s his right”.

Clinton said she wants to reinforce the Affordable Care Act, for example, while Sanders has proposed a single-payer insurance system.

On foreign policy, Clinton said that Sanders’s statements should raise concerns, particularly his recent statements on Iran.

“It never occurred to me that so many countries were paying attention to our politics”, Clinton said.

Mr. Sanders has described Mr. Clinton’s affairs “disgraceful”, but has also stated “Hillary Clinton is not Bill Clinton”. And Clinton leads Christie 45 percent to 42 percent. “And maybe Bernie’s theories have enabled her to step a little more to the left in what she talks about”.

The reception that Bernie Sanders gets in the South may be like the reception Sanders got when he spoke at Liberty University, a very conservative and religious Southern Christian college.