Clinton pushes for Iowa win in surprise town hall

Hillary Clinton did not bring up Bernie Sanders once in her first event of a day-long swing through New Hampshire on Friday, a dramatic departure from the tone she took on Thursday in Iowa.

This poll, which gave Sanders a 9-point lead over Clinton, came after a CNN/WMUR-TV poll earlier in the week said Sanders had a whopping 27-point advarntage in the same state. That said, 20 percent of these Democratic voters said they do agree with some of the things Trump has said. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be here in support of [Clinton]”, Lovato told the audience while introducing Clinton after her performance. We’ll all find out in 10 days.

She had a commanding lead over her nearest Democratic rival Sanders in Iowa until December.

New Hampshire-based American Research Group showed Sanders ahead, 49 percent to 43 percent, plus O’Malley at 3 percent.

On Thursday, David Brock, a top Clinton ally, criticized a new ad from Sanders, saying it presents a “bizarre” image of America, focused on white voters.

Ms Clinton made this one of her main lines of attack at a rally at a liberal arts college in Indianola, Iowa.

The former secretary of state would beat Trump 48 percent to 39 percent, according to the poll. “A candidate that they can’t control that really speaks to populist impulses that go beyond the normal power structures of Washington, D.C.”, Markay said.

Clinton says she supports a “no-fly zone” over rebel-controlled northern Syria, something Sanders and President Obama oppose. However, 60 percent thought Clinton had the best chance of winning in the general election in November.

The Sanders campaign attributed her attacks to the latest poll numbers in a state where she was once expected to win easily. The sample included 266 who were likely to participate in the Republican presidential caucus and 280 who were likely to participate in the Democratic presidential caucus.

The CNN/ORC International poll was conducted among 2,002 Iowa adults, including 266 likely Republican caucus-goers and 280 likely Democratic caucus-goers.

Pollsters surveyed respondents via telephone interviews with a 6.1 percentage point margin of error.

Clinton said Sanders would reopen the overall debate about health care, giving Republicans an opening to repeal what’s already in place.