It’s on: Clinton, Sanders to debate in NH Thursday

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) laid out how his faith intersects with his progressive beliefs during Wednesday’s Democratic Party town hall.

The race for the Democratic nomination, once seen as a sure thing for Clinton, intensified this week after Sanders held the former secretary of state to a whisper-thin margin of victory in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.

Sanders has increasingly highlighted Clinton’s acceptance of hefty speaking fees from major corporations and Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs, pointing to those speaking fees as evidence she can’t be trusted to take on well-funded interests.

Sanders acknowledged that many New Hampshire voters, particularly along the state line, are familiar with his record, but he also noted that she is an worldwide figure well known around the world.

“Here’s what I want young people to know: They don’t have to be for me”.

Clinton and Sanders square off before the first-in-the-nation primary vote-here’s how to watch online.

Like her husband, Bill Clinton, some 24 years ago. “She has the support of virtually the entire political establishment here in New Hampshire”. Despite claims of a home-field advantage for him, he says, Clinton is the one who has campaigned and won here before. “I mean, I think this is going to be a very close election here in New Hampshire”.

Sanders defended his Medicare-for-all single-payer health care plan when a man in the audience questioned if it would result in tax increases for the middle class.

Sanders added: “The Republican Party right now in Washington is highly disciplined, very, very well-funded, and adheres to more or less the Koch brother position”.

“Hillary Clinton has the drive, experience and enthusiasm to lead our country forward”, Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, said in a statement. Sanders presented his vision of free college for all, universal health care, campaign finance reform and a crackdown on Wall Street nonstop while campaigning for the last nine months, and yet he won liberals in Iowa only by four percentage points.

“I hope we keep it on the issues”, Clinton said Wednesday. “I don’t agree with Sen”.

“We are in this until the convention”, Sanders told reporters on Tuesday. So far, Sanders has refused to concede defeat.

It will be the first debate since former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley dropped out of the race, leaving just Clinton and Sanders competing for the nomination. Indeed, had it not been for the superiority of her ground operation in Iowa, many say privately that she would have been swamped by the wave of enthusiasm for Sanders. She said a “wider group” needs to be targeted, including the shadow banking sector and insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

Cooper asked: “Did you have to be paid $675,000?”

“Every person has to have two pockets and in each pocket they have to carry a different note”, Spira-Savett said, quoting Bunim.

The two campaigns have even skirmished this week over why Sanders is doing so well in New Hampshire polls.

COOPER: Do you still believe there’s a vast right wing conspiracy? “And it basically is practice the discipline of gratitude”, she said. The progressive community was pretty united in saying, ‘Don’t listen to Bush.

She said military force must always be a last resort.

“That can grip me and make me feel like there’s something I can do about that”, she said. It will take place at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, and will air on MSNBC. That was after Clinton’s campaign manager referred to New Hampshire as Sanders’ “backyard”.

The next Republican debate is Saturday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. (ET).

The campaign has a dozen offices in the states and thousands of volunteers. She has since become one of the network’s most recognizable faces and earned the show some of the network’s highest ratings.