Clinton exudes confidence ahead of Iowa caucuses

Sanders countered recent attacks from Clinton claiming he doesn’t support pro-choice or gun control.

Clinton has panned Sanders’ call for scrapping Obama’s Affordable Care Act in favor of a Medicare-for-all universal health care system that eliminates private insurance companies. Before they left, Sanders had the air of a victor, a scrappy underdog capable of shaking up – and perhaps overtaking – the political establishment.

Clinton and Sanders are in a tight race before Monday’s Iowa caucuses and Clinton trails the Vermont senator in New Hampshire.

“If it weren’t for Gov. O’Malley, none of the other candidates would be speaking about immigration”, said Gabriella Domenzain, O’Malley’s deputy campaign manager. Clinton and Sanders are separated by only 3 percentage points, within the margin of error, on the Democratic side.

“Are you guys ready for a radical idea?” To reach rural Democrats, the campaign started running ads in November in weekly and small-town daily newspapers across Iowa.“He utilized advertising in weekly newspapers in a way Ive never seen in my career, ” said Burns, the co-owner of the Carroll newspaper.

HILLARY CLINTON: Well, look, I think that we had a lot of challenges organizationally. “I think that’s one of the reasons he’s a nervous wreck, too”, Trump said at a rally in Nashua, New Hampshire, where the real estate magnate was already looking past Iowa.

Sanders acknowledged he’s trailing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in polls of likely Iowa caucusgoers, but cited an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showing Sanders outperformingClinton in a hypothetical general election against GOP front-runner Donald Trump.

The Holiday Inn crowd was boisterous, and viscerally angered by the Clinton message. “I understand that. That’s the way they are”.

At one point in Clinton’s remarks, some people yelled “You are a liar!” Emily Isaac is a University of California, Davis, student who heads her campus’s pro-Bernie group, which has been teaming up with other California college supporters to phone bank voters in neighboring Nevada.

While it wasn’t immediately clear how well Sanders did with first-timers, he performed best in the younger parts of the state, including Polk, Linn and Johnson Counties. The past two Republican caucus winners – former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen.

He said that Sanders would be pleased to debate Clinton in Flint, Michigan, before the Michigan primary as long as Clinton will agree to one in Brooklyn, New York, on April 14.

That heat was coming from Republicans; Sanders earlier declared the email flap a nonissue in his mind.

On Friday, I trekked over to Sanders’ state headquarters in Des Moines.

With just two days remaining before Monday’s caucuses, the Vermont senator appeared at a rally here at the University of Iowa, where he shared the billing with several popular bands, including Vampire Weekend.

Sanders’ senior strategist Tad Devine projected total confidence after Sanders’ speech, portraying the virtual tie as a Sanders victory. Sanders said the economy has improved under Obama, but added, “what we have got to do is to involve people in the political process in a way that we have not done”. “I know none of you know anything about marijuana”.

“Today in Iowa, some kid is being picked up for possessing marijuana”, Sanders said as the crowd booed.

“No, I’m not”, he replied when asked if he was predicting a win on caucus night.

“Hillary goes out and works with what we have to work with”.

New Hampshire residents will vote in the state primary on February 9.

“We are delighted to partner with CNN on Wednesday’s town hall here in New Hampshire”, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Raymond Buckley said. “And if conservatives come out, we’re going to win tomorrow”, the Texas senator told “Fox News Sunday”.