A call to action from 2016 hopefuls: Please, Iowans, vote

Asked Sunday by CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” whether voters should interpret his refusal to engage Clinton on the email issue to mean that Clinton did nothing wrong, Sanders replied with a firm, “No”.

The poll also substituted Trump’s name for rival Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and found that Bloomberg’s numbers stayed about the same. And only Cruz, Carson and Rubio pull together majorities of likely caucus-goers saying they would enthusiastically back them should they win the nomination.

Asked whether Rubio could win or come second, his senior strategist Todd Harris laughingly responded with an obscenity and said the goal in Iowa is third, behind the flamboyant Trump and the highly organized Cruz. That call to action was echoed by Democratic and Republican hopefuls alike as they worked to motivate Iowans to attend the caucuses. Trump was keen to remind the public of Clinton’s impeachment over a sex scandal in 1998, and noted that Hillary Clinton will still face questions over that period as First Lady should she be the Democratic nominee. “I will apologize to nobody for using every tool we can to encourage Iowa voters to come out and vote”, he said. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), 2 percent, according to the Suffolk University Political Research Center survey of likely Republican voters in New Hampshire. What I have said is that there is a legal process underway right now …

The new MTSU poll shows Trump the top choice of 33 percent of registered Tennessee voters who identified themselves as Republicans, followed by Cruz, who is backed by 17 percent.

On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he would participate in the additional February 4 debate, just days before the February 9 New Hampshire primary, but only if Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley agree beforehand to three additional debates after New Hampshire. Bernie Sanders wants more debates. “And I will stand up to Republican attacks against him personally and his record”. Barack Obama in 2008.

Not only are the polls close in Iowa, but on Friday the Obama administration confirmed for the first time that the unsecured home server Clinton used while secretary of state contained some of the USA government’s most closely guarded secrets, censoring 22 emails with material demanding one of the highest levels of classification. “So if there is some kind of motivation, it’s not going to affect the fundamental facts because they remain the same”, she said.

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

But Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said in a statement that the Clinton campaign had not accepted debates his team proposed for March 3 in MI and April 14 in NY. He said his own campaign’s recent ad against the former secretary of state over speaking fees she received from Goldman Sachs was simply a matter of self-defense.