Clinton Takes 25 Point Lead Over Sanders In National Poll

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during the First in the South Dinner at the Charleston Mariott Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016, in Charleston, S.C. Candidates had to average at least 5 percent support either nationally or in the first three nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire and SC “in the five most recent polls recognized by NBC News”, NBC reported.

The NFC playoff game isn’t the only rumble going on in the Carolinas’ tonight, because tensions are expected to reach their an all time boiling point between Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and former New York Senator, Hillary Clinton (D-NY).

Clinton’s once formidable lead in Iowa has dwindled and Sanders has maintained a steady advantage in New Hampshire. Clinton’s daughter said that Sanders wants to eliminate Obamacare, the children’s health-care program and Medicare, which is not his position.

Sanders has a passionate following among young voters and liberals.

The debate will air on NBC at 9:00 pm ET.

Hours before Sunday night’s Democratic debate, Sanders announced his support for legislation that would reverse a 2005 law, which he supported, that grants legal immunity to gun manufacturers.

In the past week, Clinton has shifted course in apparent response to Sanders’ strong poll results. Clinton’s team has retooled her schedule to add stops in Iowa in the week ahead.

As the race has tightened, Clinton has been on the attack.

Sanders faced a similar quandary.

Podesta’s belated comment also came after the Sanders campaign issued its own fundraising plea off of this report, calling it “a new, vile super PAC attack on Bernie”.

Sanders’ campaign has moved quickly to fundraise off the attacks, including a reported call on Saturday from a top Clinton outside ally for the 74-year-old senator to release his health records. Sanders has gained steam because of his clear message on Wall Street and income inequality.

Confident of her strength and of the eventual outcome, the Democratic establishment began to consolidate around her long before she even formed her campaign committee.

Clinton aides say those critiques miss the larger picture of wage growth, job creation and a balanced budget. A central theme to Clinton’s sales pitch for his wife involves her ability to find common ground with the GOP – something he suggests her competitors won’t be able to do, should they win the White House. The accused Charleston shooter, Dylann Roof, was able to buy the gun used in the shooting in part because of the provision. Clinton offered a forceful endorsement of President Barack Obama, casting herself as his natural heir. So far, the former president has played a hands-off role in his wife’s campaign for the Democratic nomination. “But I ought to get some credit for knowing something about how to run the economy”.

Lately, it’s been health care and guns.

Clinton has tried to dismiss Sanders’ proposals as unrealistic and disingenuous.

“There are two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street”, Sanders says in an ad. “One says it’s OK to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do”. Her once-comfortable lead over Sanders in Iowa is now just four points, pretty much a toss-up.

The former Maryland governor barely qualified to appear on debate stage and has been unable to break out of single digits in preference polling.

Now, with the two neck-and-neck in Iowa just two weeks away from the caucuses there, both candidates are squarely focused on each other – and they aren’t holding back their attacks.

Clinton was referring to the fact that an Federal Bureau of Investigation background check should have denied Dylann Roof the gun he purchased before killing nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June.