Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders hold solid leads in Iowa, CNN/ORC poll finds

In the Thursday CNN poll, Sanders grabbed 51% support among likely Iowa caucus-goers to Clinton’s 43%.

Clinton needs to “rebound in a big way”, Markay said, or Sanders’ momentum could carry him to getting more donor cash.

“I think she’s a smart lady and I think she has a lot of experience and she could really do a lot of great things for us”, she said.

New polls in Iowa and New Hampshire show Clinton losing her lead in the early voting states, and her campaign is bracing for a possible upset when the voting begins in less than two weeks. A CNN/WMUR poll released Tuesday found Sanders trouncing Clinton in the state, 60% to 33%.

While speaking to a crowd of roughly 600 people at Simpson College in Indianola on Thursday, Clinton said she wants to build on President Obama’s work with the Affordable Care Act to get more Americans healthcare coverage.

“I try not to pay too much attention to the polls, because right now they’re all over the place – some have us up, others have us down”, Clinton said in the fundraising email. “People will not be focused on improving what we have achieved”, Clinton said.

A series of polls have shown the race in the New Hampshire primary favoring Sanders, the Vermont senator who has made a concerted effort to solidify his base in the state by spending over a month campaigning. His campaign released a feel-good television ad portraying his bid as an optimistic populist movement that is generating far more enthusiasm than Clinton is. That is like asking an arsonist to be the firefighter.

A last minute town hall-style debate will pit Hillary Clinton against her leading Democratic rival Senator Bernie Sanders. “I engaged in long, patient diplomacy to put together the sanctions on Iran that finally brought them to the negotiation table and actually began the preliminary negotiations that the President and Secretary (John) Kerry continued to completion”.

Clinton also has an advantage over Sanders among Iowa’s registered Democrats, pollsters found. She receives 54 percent support to his 42 percent.

“I know what it’s like to run from behind in New Hampshire – and I know what it’s like to come from behind and win in New Hampshire”, she said, to a standing ovation. She backs that one.

“It is not about Senator Sanders”. “But normal relations with Iran right now?” Just 27% say that about Sanders. “For example, he suggested we invited into Iranian troops into Syria”.