Bernie Sanders campaigns in New Hampshire on eve of primary vote
The war over Wall Street between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton escalated Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union”, where both candidates defended their records.
“The online campaign is, ‘anybody who doesn’t agree with me is a tool of the establishment, ‘” Clinton argued.
Responding to Bill Clinton’s attack, Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver told Bloomberg “It’s unfortunate that President Clinton is choosing to engage in the kind of negative attacks that he is on the eve of the New Hampshire primary”.
An analysis by CNN meanwhile showed that both Mrs Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had togeter earned more than $153m in paid speeches since 2001. He reportedly labeled Sanders as “the champion of all things small and the enemy of all things big”.
As a result, 15 percent of Democratic primary voters have not made a final decision about who they will support on primary day, while 4 percent of Republican voters could not say who they would vote for if the election were held today.
Clinton aides try to make the case that the heavily white and liberal electorates of New Hampshire and Iowa make them outliers in the nomination fight.
At a town hall for New England College students in Henniker on Saturday, a young woman asked Clinton why some people think she is too “drilled and rehearsed”. And here in New Hampshire, if we can bring out a decent vote on Tuesday, I am confident we’re going to win. Bernie Sanders maintaining a big lead over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while almost two-thirds of likely Democratic primary voters believe he will be the victor on Tuesday.
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Bernie Sanders promises voters a “political revolution” that will fundamentally remake the American economy and its education and health care systems.
“I think probably like 50-50”, Franks said. She came to Clinton’s nearby Concord rally still trying to make up her mind. Since launching her campaign in April, she’s rolled out dozens of policy plans, tackling issues from autism to the Islamic State.
Women in the state seem to be unfazed by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s recent call for females to back Clinton, having told “Meet the Press” anchor Chuck Todd “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other”.
In the hour-long speech, Sanders barely moved from his standard campaign promises. Instead, he should take this opportunity to stress to Democrats, who may be hesitant to get behind his campaign, that he is a candidate that can beat of the Republicans in the fall.
Sanders’ strength with younger voters only heightens the threat he poses to what was once Clinton’s decisive national lead.