Two new polls say Clinton has small lead over Sanders

“A great majority will be supporting her”.

As the Iowa caucuses near, Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Ted Cruz in a recent poll with a seven-point lead among likely GOP participants, according to a trio of new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.

A poll released by Public Policy Polling on Friday afternoon suggests that the reallocation process would result in Sanders gaining substantially more new votes than Clinton.

As Clinton faces another Iowa cliffhanger, there are echoes of her previous failed presidential bid.

The former first lady ramped up her attacks against the Vermont senator at a packed Des Moines rally yesterday, skewering his single-payer health insurance plan as an “idea that will never, ever come to pass”.

“It’s really easy to buy into crowds and see large crowds and assume that translates”, said Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis. She also said she’s sticking with Sanders. She’s locked in support of black establishment figures, including the majority of Congressional Black Caucus members and at least 50 black mayors.

She said the nation prospers more under Democratic presidents, comparing economic performance under Obama and her husband, Bill Clinton, favorably to the administrations of George W. and George H.W. Bush.

It came on a day when Sanders’ campaign conducted damage control in Nevada and released the senator’s medical records, something he had vowed to do before the Iowa caucus.

Obama has met previously with Clinton. Now he’s supporting Sanders, and he says his candidate doesn’t necessarily have to capture the same level of support among blacks as Obama did.

We’ll know soon enough; if Sanders wins Iowa Monday, the odds of him winning New Hampshire, perhaps by a big margin, are extremely high. Sanders, as expected, kept to his singular beat, though pointing out that just because Clinton has the experience doesn’t “means she’s always right”, and he emphasized her wrong decision on Iraq. “They’re a thinking people, they don’t listen to the sound bites”, Sarandon said. There, college debt runs about $33,410 per student, 15 percent above the USA average, according to The Institute for College Access and Success, a nonprofit advocacy group. A December YouGov poll of South Carolina Democrats found Sanders under water by 60 points.

Snowy weather was expected to hit the Trump and Sanders campaigns hardest, as both candidates tend to draw support from younger, less reliable voters, Britain’s the Guardian reported. This, said one party official, would provide voters “ample opportunity” to hear from the candidates.

Clinton also said she was not anxious about an FBI investigation into her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state. “He had the ground game and the infrastructure in place”, said Elleithee, who’s not involved in either 2016 campaign.

O’Malley’s campaign said if the February 4 debate happens, he’ll acquiesce to Clinton’s demand. Obama allies bristle at comparisons between Sanders and the president. Moreover, like in 2008, Clinton would be a first as a female president.

BLITZER: “So I just want to be precise”.