Debate Takeaways: Clinton, Sanders mix it up over Wall St.

At the New Hampshire Democratic Party McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner dinner, Clinton noted that some question whether she should spend time in the state, given Bernie Sanders’ sizable lead in the polls.

The poll also found that Sanders performs better than Clinton when matched up against top Republican primary candidates.

“Sen. Sanders says he wants to run a positive campaign”, Clinton said to a crowd of 600 at the Johnson Theater in Durham.

“I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, who are not all that enamored with the establishment”, he said.

As for Bernie Sanders, he managed to stay calm during the whole Democratic debate, maintaining his point that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign was funded in part by banks.

“I’ve got their number”, she said, “the Wall Street guys”. “I think it’s time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out over the past few weeks, and let’s talk about the issues that divide us”. I’m exhausted of the attacks on Hillary Clinton’s integrity.

The failed 2004 presidential candidate threw labor unions under the bus during an interview on MSNBC on Friday while making a feeble attempt to defend Clinton against criticism over the millions of dollars she has earned on the corporate speech-making circuit.

Normalizing relations immediately would remove one of the biggest levers the United States has to pry concessions from Iran in the future, she said.

HILLARY CLINTON: Well, Tim, I actually co-sponsored legislation that would have sitting presidents reveal any donation to their presidential library, and I think that’s a good policy. Hillary agrees with Sanders that the influence of money in politics has to stop, but they are both firmly on separate ground when it comes to walking the walk.

It was a markedly more contentious tone than the two candidates set when they last debated before the presidential voting began in Iowa, and it signaled how the race has tightened five days ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary next Tuesday.

SANDERS: He’s winning the fundraising battle, the Wall Street Journal notes. “A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS”, Clinton said. “That is not arguable”, Sanders said.

Sanders countered that contributions by powerful interests had corrupted the political system and shaped government policy in countless ways, from the deregulation of financial institutions in the 1990s to the expensive cost of drugs today.

But the former secretary of state was stronger at deflecting attacks on what amounted to her turf.