Susan Sarandon feels the ‘Bern’ in Iowa

A super-PAC founded by Republican billionaire Joe Ricketts is making its first foray into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, spending $600,000 on a television ad in Iowa calling Sanders “too liberal”, according to The New York Times.

The Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday found Sanders, the Vermont Senator, leading Clinton, the former Secretary of State, 49%-45%, within the poll’s margin of error.

The New York Times recently reported that, as Sanders surged in early state polls, several Clinton advisors expressed regret over not pushing for more debates.

“We have no plans to sanction any further debates before the upcoming first-in-the-nation caucuses and primary, but will reconvene with our campaigns after those two contests to review our schedule”, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in response to the proposed debate. “One in March, April and May and none on a Friday, Saturday or holiday weekend”, Weaver said.

“Whoever the Democratic nominee is going to be is going to view the president as a critical asset, and someone they are going to want to see on the campaign”, Simas said.

Asked whether he thought that Clinton had overplayed her closeness to the president, Sanders said, “I think the people of Iowa will make that decision in a few days”.

“What the president has tried to do, what Vice President [Joseph] Biden has tried to do, is to be as evenhanded as they could be”, Mr. Sanders said at a news conference, held later outside the West Wing of the White House.

She’s challenged Sanders to one more debate, hoping that her strength as a debater will give her the much-needed edge over the 74-year-old self-described socialist.

“[The Iraq war is] where Hillary Clinton lost me”, Sarandon told the outlet Wednesday night at the conclusion of Sanders’ Mason City rally, “because there was plenty of information that even I had that said there was a real problem with the logic involved”. “I wish we could but I don’t think we can”, he said.

While campaigning, Clinton has defended her husband’s support of the Defense of Marriage Act while he was president, saying it was a “defensive action”.

NBC and the Union Leader announced on Tuesday that they will host and partner on a Democratic debate on February 4, in between the two critical early state contests.

“We will win Iowa if there’s a large voter turnout”, Sanders told Lester Holt Wednesday in an exclusive interview with NBC Nightly News.

Clinton and Sanders have been deadlocked, and if Clinton wins in Iowa on Monday, it may mean the beginning to the end for Sander’s entire campaign.

He’s anxious about being excluded from future debates if he breaks the DNC’s rules. Sanders has called for more debates. Why is that? The answer is obvious.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who has long criticized the DNC’s debate schedule, supports adding the debate in New Hampshire. The other takes aim at a central vulnerability of Clinton, her Wall Street ties, by contrasting Sanders’ vision for overhauling the financial industry with Clinton’s.