Democratic Presidential Candidate Slams Hillary Clinton’s ‘Credibility Issue’

So, for those of you who think it is not too early to be studying polls with tiny samples and huge margins of error, here is why I, at least, care about the Iowa State Fair.

This is the joke from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that cuts right to the issue dogging her presidential ambitions at the moment.

And at the state fair, Trump’s Iowa staff took turns at the Iowa Republican Party booth and stomped through the fairgrounds with pledge cards in hand.

“Nice to be here!” She said, “It’s a family-friendly environment”.

“It’s the Donald!” yelled an onlooker, as eyes shifted to the sky. The pandemonium followed him around for roughly an hour – including a stop for a pork chop on a stick.

“This is beyond what I expected”. Luckily for the presidential candidates stumping at the Des Moines Register’s Soapbox in long-sleeved dress shirts, there was also a slight breeze.

More than 1 million participants are expected to visit the fair which make it a ideal opportunity for presidential hopefuls from both parties to connect with the voters. Presidential candidates looking to test their message have stopped at the Iowa State Fair ever since the fair’s inception in 1854.

Also in the race are former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, ex-Sen. However while Sanders spoke a helicopter did fly over head. Rick Santorum, Donald Trump and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

“Sorry Bern boy. Don’t get me wrong, I love Senator Sanders -” she said, before her friend Tim LaPointe interjected, “but she’s the Eleanor Roosevelt of our time“. “I left the helicopter at home”.

The candidates have 20 minutes to impress the crowd at the Iowa State Fair on a soapbox – a wooden platform surrounded in hay bales and a mic.

Clinton pitched herself as a Democratic champion ready to take on the GOP and, as if to prove her point, spent much of her speech slamming her Republican opponents. As she walked around the building, children sat on their parents’ shoulders, and people cheered from the rafters above the expo. “Trump!” – Clinton either didn’t see it, or purposely ignored it.

Clinton referred to Trump on Friday evening as the “flamboyant front-runner” in the Republican race.

The new strategy has drawn skeptical glances from other veteran Iowa operatives who doubt that Trump can maintain his front-runner status in Iowa without getting out and covering more ground in the crucial primary state.

“Since the Bush years, I haven’t been interested in putting anyone in power”, Iowa resident Joe McNeley, a former Democrat, said of his support for the billionaire business leader. “He’s got lobbyists, I know them….”

Immigration reform? Build a wall!

“Does anyone want to take a ride?” he gleefully asked children in the parking lot upon his arrival, dressed in a suit and a bright red cap that read, “Make America Great Again” – Trump’s oft-repeated slogan. We’ve got to reach all of these people, and he can reach all those people.

Trump’s bona fides on conservative social values, so important to many in the Republican base, are also dubious. It destroyed him, so I don’t see how she’s going to possibly be able to run.