Bill Clinton Says He’s Leaving It ‘All on the Floor’ in Iowa

Clinton, who famously came from behind to win New Hampshire in 2008, holds a small lead over Sanders here in Iowa, but the underdog populist continues to outpace her in Granite State polls.

But now that polls show Clinton may lose New Hampshire, and possibly Iowa, to Sanders, she is eager to have an additional platform to make her case in the final days.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, unable to turn it into a three-way race, ended his quest for the nomination. Despite the Clinton campaign’s efforts to put some question mark over his health, Sanders’ popularity is only going northwards.

“Before it was called Obamacare, it was called Hillarycare”, she said.

“A lot of people feel like the status quo is a machine that’s grinding them down”, said Sen. The hope is that by running up the score in Davenport, Cedar Rapids and Des Moines – more urban areas in a primarily rural state – Clinton will be able to pad her delegate total. “I feel like we’ve done everything we could”. “He wants us to start over – with a plan that will be very hard”.

“I have heard the stories, I have seen the news reports about the ones who were killed”, Clinton said.

Some young voters say it would be nice to have the first female president – but that’s about as excited as they get. “Clinton is committed to supporting sensible actions to address gun violence, including comprehensive background checks, cracking down on illegal gun traffickers, holding dealers and manufacturers accountable when they endanger Americans, and keeping guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and stalkers”, the campaign said in an email earlier this week according to the Guardian.

With just 76 hours until the Iowa caucus, Hillary Clinton leaned on a long-kept, family motto – “We’re all in this together” – on Friday, as she linked up with Bill Clinton at a joint campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa.

Some of Clinton’s backers like her focus on attainable goals.

Sanders, in the days before voters caucus, has enjoyed an surge of excitement, too.

Ted Mulcahy, 48, of Southampton, said he chose to travel to New Hampshire because Sanders, in his opinion, is “the only candidate who seems to be honest, who seems to be not corrupted by corporate money”. “She outweighs all of them”.

He says an election held today would be a “toss-up” against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, calling the race “virtually tied”. “That is, I think, a very serious issue”, Sanders said. “Maybe in the future”.

“I think gender always factors into elections and typically for the Democrats”, she said.

The debate will air on MSNBC in primetime Thursday and be hosted by Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow.

At last, it’s caucus day in Iowa.

Max Knauf of Des Moines predicts a Bernie Sanders win in Iowa.

She defends Obamacare as the hard-won most-of-a-loaf that Sanders would tear up in a vain and politically unrealistic yearning for an all-government-run single-payer system. Her voice a little ragged from campaigning, she championed abortion rights and called for raising the minimum wage and guaranteeing women are paid the same as men for the same work.

The DNC had said any candidates who participated in non-sanctioned debates would not be invited to the official six.

At Grand View, she bragged about the economic track record of her husband’s presidency and accentuated the positive of Obama’s (the vast gulf between the rich and the rest notwithstanding). “Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower”. “We have built, since April, (an operation) to do this on a statewide level so that we are engaged with, talking to and listening to Iowans no matter where they are in a number of different ways”.