As primary race tightens, Democrats brace for a messy winter

The Democratic candidates will debate in Charleston, SC, on Sunday (Jan. 17).

Hillary Clinton responded to the tightening race with Bernie Sanders on Thursday by arguing early polls that showed her with a sizable lead were “artificial”. Iowa and New Hampshire hold primaries next month, but Connecticut’s primary is in April. It is a result of his intelligence, honesty and positions on the issues. Bill Clinton promised voters in 1992 that theyd be getting “two for the price of one” if they elected him to the White House, a presidential duo of the young Arkansas governor and his Yale Law-educated wife. I am confident the majority of the viewers will agree with me that he is the most qualified candidate of either party now running for president.

“I think you’ve nailed it”, she said. Clinton often appears more comfortable as an underdog than as a front-runner, and was most effective in the 2008 race after suffering several losses, though her resurgence came too late to overtake Obama.

David Axelrod, another veteran of Obama’s political team, said that while Clinton may have valid points about the feasibility of Sanders’ policy proposals, she risks once again being seen as someone who will work within the system, not someone who will remake it.

GOP front-runner Donald Trump has spent weeks criticizing Bill Clinton in his campaign events, calling the former president “one of the great abusers of the world” and “one of the great woman abusers of all time”.

“Among her very first sounds was Elmo”, Clinton revealed.

State polls should make Clinton even more nervous. For Clinton, a former first lady, USA senator and secretary of state, it’s all about whether the poise and polish accumulated during years of resume-building will prove a liability in a year when voters are more sympathetic to insurgents. When “Face the Nation” moderator John Dickerson asked Sanders whether the ad attacks Clinton’s character – something he pledged not to do – the senator suggested that’s not the case. “I have been working against inequality since I was right out of law school and I have worked hard to try to level the odds for people who are often left behind and left out”, Clinton said.

“We don’t represent the billionaire class, we don’t represent corporate America, we don’t want their money, we’re going to do it another way”, Sanders said to a cheering crowd.

The Clinton campaign is sensitive about this narrative and concerned about Sen.

Nationally, Clinton is still clearly in front among Democrats and Democrat leaners, according to this week’s NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll, which was conducted online – she leads 53 to 36 percent.

Sanders told reporters in New Hampshire that “They’re mad at me today, they’re mad at me yesterday, they’re mad at me tomorrow”.