Clinton seeks to cut into Sanders’ New Hampshire advantage

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a “Get Out the Vote” event at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, N.H., Saturday Feb. 6, 2016.

Speaking at a Democratic dinner in Manchester on Friday night, Hillary Clinton acknowledged the deficit she faces in the polls ahead of next week’s first in the nation primary.

In an Elle magazine interview, Chelsea Clinton talked about the importance of fighting for women and how young people should care about politics.

And despite Sanders’ far-wider lead, the sense of inevitability among likely Democratic voters that he will win is about the same as the expectations game on the Republican side for Trump: 66% say they think Sanders will win compared with 21% who see a Clinton victory as likely.

Clinton hopes to use a loss in this first primary state as a springboard into contests later this month in Nevada and SC, where she hopes a more heavily-minority electorate will build the foundation for a national comeback. Last Monday, Clinton narrowly beat Sanders in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, were also at the dinner, decked out in Bernie sweatshirts and they similarly praised Sanders for being “the real thing”. That’s two days before voters go to the polls in New Hampshire.

Clinton said on Thursday that she is “100 percent confident” the ongoing investigation will not find wrongdoing. In some surveys Clinton has trailed by more than 20 percentage points. “But you know what?”

Clinton has accused Sanders of “cherry-picking” from her past comments and said his questions about her Wall Street ties amount to “very artful smear”.

Sanders backers believe that as African-Americans learn more about the Vermont senator, they will warm to his liberal message. Earlier in the week, she said that she simply couldn’t imagine not campaigning in the state. The shift in rhetoric may raise questions about who and what Clinton really is.

This snowman, outside the Verizon Wireless arena in Manchester, N.H., shows some voters, regardless of the cold weather, are ‘Feeling the Bern, ‘ as Sanders supporters say.

“I think she’s paid her dues”, said Clemence Cote, 54, of Derry. They’ve known him for 30 years in Vermont and the pair came to New Hampshire to help him campaign.

Clinton called the server issue a “political ploy” before turning to news that former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are now facing a similar problem.

Bush spoke and took questions from town hall participants for 90 minutes and showed energy and emotion in front of the more than 700 people jammed into the Bedford school.

Hillary Clinton, accompanied by, from left, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, Sen. That’s particularly true since Clinton will benefit from the efforts of the formidable political machine of Jeanne and Billy Shaheen.