Bernie Sanders gets first presidential endorsement from member of Congress

“Asked and answered. Time to move on”, tweeted senior Clinton adviser Karen Finney recently after Clinton faced questions on “Meet the Press”.

And Tuesday night in Las Vegas, when Democrats meet at the CNN-hosted debate, he’ll face his biggest test yet: going toe-to-toe with the former secretary of state.

“People might or might not like what he has to say“, Grijalva said via an interview with the Guardian, “but the fact is he has said it repeatedly with people and it’s resonating with people, and I think his message is something that I wanted to reinforce”. In Bloomberg focus groups earlier this week, voters cited Sanders’ championing of middle class workers as a reason for his appeal. And third – and most importantly – Clinton will be formidable in states with lots of African-American and other minority voters who are the backbone of the Democratic coalition.

“She communicates well with other countries…it isn’t just us, it’s the world, and we have to remember that”, Laurie Koester, 64, told the Field Poll.

“He doesn’t have the connection with the community that Hillary Clinton does”, Joe Trippi, a longtime Democratic strategist who managed Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, told Fox News Latino. Hailing from the rural, mostly white state of Vermont, Sanders has a thinner background on racial issues and voted against a few gun control measures in Congress.

Speaking in Iowa, Clinton said Wednesday she doesn’t believe the trade deal announced Monday meets “the high bar I have set”. She also likes Clinton’s environmental views and how she handled Republican attacks on her trustworthiness, “with grace and aplomb”. The president of the AFL-CIO has said that labor’s enthusiasm with Clinton was directly related to her position on TPP.

Sanders has the support of 25.3 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, second to Clinton’s 43.5 percent, according to the HuffPost Pollster, which aggregates opinion poll data.

Sanders has long highlighted differences with Clinton, from his anti-Iraq War vote (Clinton backed the war but has since expressed regret) to his support for a $15-an-hour minimum wage.

“He’s going after corporate America, which I haven’t seen in my lifetime, in my generation”, Montiel said. In particular, Luis Gutiérrez, a Democratic congressman from Illinois who supports Hillary Clinton, said in June of Sanders: “I don’t know if he likes immigrants because he doesn’t seem to talk about immigrants”.

Sanders has proposed breaking up the biggest banks and reinstating Glass-Steagall financial regulations that separated commercial and investment banking activities.

“She sees a place where she can stake out a position that she feels is further to the left of Sanders”, Chamberlain said.

“Mrs. Clinton does not possess the retail political skills of her husband, nor can she easily rouse a crowd with a lyrical speech like President Obama”.

On trade, Democrats say in many cases her role required her to advocate for the Obama administration – and now she’s running for the top job.