Sanders, Obama to hold Oval Office meeting

Sanders’ 4 percentage point lead as the race enters the finals days of the that will culminate at the February 1 first-in-the-nation caucuses is just within the poll’s margin of error and virtually unchanged from Quinnipiac’s early January results when Sanders led 49 percent to 44.

“There are very different visions, different values, different forces at work, and you have to have somebody who is a proven fighter”, said Clinton.

Clinton and her aides have accused Sanders of wanting to throw out Obamacare to pass his single-payer health care plan and have knocked him for saying that groups like Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign, which endorsed Clinton, was part of the “establishment”. “I don’t think that is the same as in 2008”, Continetti said.

Clinton, in a television ad released Tuesday airing in Iowa, argued she’s spent her life fighting and won’t stop now. “He started with Mexicans, he’s now with Muslims”, she said.

As Sanders left Iowa and Minnesota for his meeting with Obama on Wednesday, it was being watched for signs of the president’s leanings.

The national poll by CNN//ORC found that four out of ten Republicans now say they wold back him to be the president. Both parties are bracing for close contests in Iowa that will determine which of their two candidates will carry the momentum from a victory into the New Hampshire primary and beyond.

Obama has met with Clinton, his former secretary of state and 2008 primary opponent, periodically.

“Her strengths, which are the fact that she’s extraordinarily experienced and wicked smart, and knows every policy inside and out, sometimes could make her more cautious and her campaign more prose than poetry”.

“I think it’s fair to say I have a 40-year record in going after inequality”, said Clinton, adding that she’s also fought inequality on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientation.

Hillary Clinton at the CNN Democratic Debate at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Tuesday, October 13, 2015. But he defended the proposal and tried to turn the tables on Clinton by questioning her support for expanding Social Security benefits. John Kasich, focusing nearly exclusively on New Hampshire, was touting recent endorsements from the Boston Globe and Concord Monitor, while Chris Christie sought to capitalize on his nod from the nearby Boston Herald.

Clinton aides, and the candidate herself, were overjoyed Monday when Politico published an interview with Obama where the president pretty clearly dismissed the idea that Sanders is carrying on his legacy. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won’t tell you.