Donald Trump Holds Lead, Bernie Sanders Pulling Ahead in Iowa — CNN Poll
Senator Bernie Sanders is on the rise in his Iowa and New Hampshire poll numbers, just as the Iowa caucus is less than two weeks away.
Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders has soared past rival Hillary Clinton in a new poll out of the first-in-the-nation caucuses state of Iowa.
The other key metric which showed a dramatic reversal was the way in individuals think Sanders does a better job of representing their own personal values as Democrats.
Read: When is my state’s primary? He leads Clinton in polling in the next state to vote, Vermont neighbor New Hampshire, on February 9. Democratic caucus-goers said they trust the Vermont senator over Clinton on the economy by 22 points, and 67% said they thought he would do more to help the middle class, as opposed to 30% who felt that way about Clinton.
Who doesn’t like Trump: In New Hampshire, meanwhile, the New York Times talks to voters who find Trump “arrogant” and baffled about where he’s getting his support.
Hillary Clinton’s attempt to appeal to young women in Iowa Thursday night left some voters feeling shortchanged – they had come to hear a presidential candidate speak about the issues and instead got a Demi Lovato concert.
“From this ad it seems black lives don’t matter much to Bernie Sanders”, Brock said. In the past, Sanders has backed legislation that gave immunity to gun manufacturers in gun-related deaths.
This far out from November, the reliability of general election polls are questionable, to say the least. We’ve got to make sure the Affordable Care Act actually works, and we can decrease costs. Sanders has proposed a single-payer health care program that drastically cuts the role private insurance companies.
Another 65.8% said they do not plan to see the newly released movie critical of Clinton’s role in the attack on the USA embassy in Libya, titled 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Clinton’s pollster dismissed CNN/WMUR survey as an outlier.
“We’re taking on not only Wall Street and economic establishment, we’re taking on the political establishment”, Sanders said.
The poll was conducted among 280 likely Democratic caucus-goers and 286 Republicans from January 15 to 20. The margin of error is 4.4 percentage points.