Clinton, Sanders, O’Malley Speak To A Full House In Iowa

While campaigning in Clear Lake, Iowa, Friday, Clinton made a forceful defense of her handling of the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attacks and her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

“I told him as soon as Hillary and Sanders got in, they’d suck up all the oxygen”, said Hodgden, who has not committed to a candidate but said he considers O’Malley “the kind of person we need to lead the country”.

“I love Iowa – a great place”, said Trump, who has climbed to the top of a crowded 2016 Republican presidential field in recent polls.

Clinton announced the plan at a town hall meeting in Dubuque, Iowa, as she continued to highlight her platform to make college more affordable. Clinton turned the server over to the FBI recently to investigate the security of her email setup.

Clinton also offered a light take on the email probe when she talked about launching a Snapchat social media account. “If you look at their policies, most of the other candidates are just Trump, without the pizzazz or the hair”. “We’re only four months into this. I’ve been fighting for families and underdogs my entire life, and I’m not going to stop now”, Clinton added.

Harkin said Clinton is “doing everything right” by being “personally involved” and focusing on issues that are “reaching the people“. “Being a Razorback fan, I guess it would be appropriate to say, go hogs”.

Clinton, who at one point quelled a coughing fit with a drink of water, sought to take on twin controversies that have buffeted her presidential campaign while presenting herself as combative, tough Democrat prepared to fight Republicans in the race to succeed Obama. “I love it – those messages disappear all by themselves”, she said. She has been in Iowa the last couple of days really forcefully defending herself on that topic in speeches and everything. One way he would turn the country around would be to build up the U.S. military and take better care of the nation’s veterans.

“In tougher times than these, Franklin Roosevelt told us not to be afraid”. He was thronged by supporters as he walked the fairgrounds and eschewed the soapbox – where Iowans are encouraged to shout questions to candidates – in favor of often random interactions with voters.

When one man told him that rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders are too old, the 52-year-old O’Malley noted the man was standing among a group of people wearing red AARP T-shirts.

Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee tells Iowa voters at the State Fair on Saturday that the main justification for the Iraq War was “all a hoax”. Republican Donald Trump’s helicopter circled the fairgrounds in the air above.

“If I had gotten in in January, if I had gotten in the day after I got out of being governor, I still wouldn’t be a socialist”, O’Malley said, referring to Sanders. “We left the helicopter at home”.

But the normal rules of politics don’t apply to Donald Trump, who broke all of them during his visit to the Iowa State Fair on Saturday.

In the Agriculture Building, Clinton walked past plates of carrots, beets and large cabbages and peered at a pair of the fair’s famous butter statues – a cow and a tribute to the board game Monopoly.

“Well, we have a lot of people”, Clinton replied surveying her entourage and the enormous scrum of press and supporters following her around the fair. Both dined on pork chop, on a stick.

But after her 20 minutes were up, Sen.