Clinton: ‘We’re going to take stock’ on campaign

“Just about everything she did had Republican support”. In a campaign appearance in Milford, N.H., on Sunday, Mr. Clinton ripped into “sexist” and “profane” attacks on his wife and supporters of her presidential bid by Sanders backers.

“He has tapped into something that is fundamentally wrong and concerning about this country”, Patrick Manion said, “and that is why so many people are feeling the fervor, are embracing the movement and understand that it’s time to take the country back”.

Deriding Sanders’ health care plan, which would raise taxes in order to scrap premiums, the former president said the state he once “campaigned in really cared that you knew what you were doing, and how it was paid for”. The problem with shifting explanations and shifting descriptions is that they are usually signs of motivated dishonesty. “We’ll do everything that we can and I think we’ve tried”, said Sanders in response to the accusations his campaign is engaged in what Clinton has called “artful smears”.

Bill Clinton played bad cop, scolding Sanders supporters for what he portrayed as mindless opposition to the powers-that-be.

David Axelrod, a CNN contributor and former top adviser to President Barack Obama, suggested that the blame lies at the top.

Sanders has provided Clinton with a stronger challenge than many in Clinton’s orbit anticipated and has shown an ability to raise large sums of money online.

“She does need to be careful about her surrogates and the people who are talking for her. We don’t want it to be [that] young women don’t know what they are talking about; that’s not fair”, Dittmar said.

“Hillary Clinton will always be there for you”.

Tad Devine, Mr Sanders’ chief strategist, said: “It’s disappointing that President Clinton has chose to launch these attacks”. The self-described democratic socialist from Vermont can not afford to stumble in New Hampshire, which neighbors his home state. And I want to get things done. Clinton said she regretted that it had been used as a “great political issue”.

Her first question came from a young man who asked about how she responds to people who distrust her in light of controversies over the Benghazi attacks and her use of a private email server at the State Department.

He then mocked Bernie Sanders’s core campaign idea that America needs a political revolution. Mr. Sanders remains 12 points ahead of Mrs. Clinton in New Hampshire, according to the most recent RealClearPolitics average of all polls. Jeanne Shaheen said on Friday, standing alongside equal-pay activist Lilly Ledbetter, Emily’s List President Stephanie Shriock, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan and U.S. Sens.

Clinton’s second-place finish in New Hampshire, almost a quarter-century ago, in 1992 helped revive a campaign dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct.