Bernie sets Iowa goalposts: Obama ’08 too far

But on the town hall stage on Monday, she pushed back at Sanders’ judgment argument by evoking Obama, who remains popular with Democratic voters and was critical of her Iraq War vote when the two competed in 2008. It’s just the opposite in SC where the CBS Battleground tracker shows Sanders trailing Clinton by 22 points.

The president said Sanders would likely be subjected to more rigorous vetting if he wins early nominating contests in Iowa or New Hampshire. “In fact, I’ve heard from quite a few people my age that they think you’re dishonest, but I’d like to hear from you and why you feel the enthusiasm isn’t there”, the student said. In a podcast interview with Politico that aired Monday, Obama said that Clinton was facing unfair scrutiny and that she is disadvantaged because she is a known quantity. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday.

As for Obama, it’s pretty clear his choice for an heir is his former secretary of state.

Mrs Clinton faced the challenge of convincing Democrats not to be swayed by Mr Sanders’ populist rhetoric and to stick with her despite a clamour for candidates outside the political establishment.

Clinton is down from 54 percent in a Fox News poll two weeks ago, while Sanders and O’Malley are each down two percent from two weeks ago.

Besides their own competing commercials, Sanders and Clinton have hammered each other three times in the past five weeks in December, in the third Democratic primary debate, and then again in January at the fourth Democratic face-off and a third time, indirectly, at Monday night’s town hall event.

“This would be so unimaginable”, Sanders said. “And, as a outcome, you know, where they stood at the beginning probably helps to explain why the language sometimes is different”.

“Because that pipeline goes from Canada, the birthplace of, Ted Cruz, he was born there and now he goes all the way to Texas, maybe he has a conflict of interest”, said Trump.

“I’ve been around a long time, people have thrown all kinds of things at me”.

“We can not continue to have a government dominated by the billionaire class and a Congress that continues to work for the interest of the people on top while ignoring working families”, he said.

Sanders also pledged to release his health records before voting in Iowa begins as Cuomo noted that he’d be the oldest person ever elected president.

Limbaugh’s conspiracy theory comes after years of suggesting that Clinton had Vince Foster murdered while she was first lady.