Facing tight race, Clinton questions Sanders’ party ties

Clinton’s campaign expresses confidence that she will maintain a strong lead among superdelegates even as she focuses on upcoming primaries. “And I got to tell you, I look at our last two Democratic presidents – were they ideal?”

Asked about his vote against immigration reform in 2007, Sanders said that bill had a guest worker provision that was “almost akin to slavery”. “To all the Bernie Sanders supporters I say, God bless you, because I know you’re doing a lot of good for this country”. She has forged an important partnership with President Obama.

Neither had a solution.

But they also answered some tough questions. “I’m not looking at Venezuela, I’m not looking at Cuba – I’m looking at countries like Denmark, Sweden”, he said. They thought he was fantastic. Of those surveyed 66 percent had a favorable opinion of Clinton and 25 percent had an unfavorable opinion, while 9 percent were undecided.

“You know where I stand because I’ve been in public standing here the whole time”, Clinton said, adding that she is “glad” that she has evolved on the issue.

Reaching out to Hispanic voters, Clinton released an emotive political ad showing her comforting a 10-year-old girl who confesses her fears that her parents could be deported.

Both candidates were also asked about other matters, including Apple refusing the FBI’s request to extricate data stored on a cellphone used by the attackers in the San Bernardino massacre.

The last two Fox News polls show Clinton’s drop-off has been most striking among women (she has gone from 28 points ahead of Sanders to just 3 points up, for a shift of minus 25 points), whites (-13 points), and regular Democrats (-14 points).

Several members of the audience weren’t feeling Hillary Clinton’s criticism of Bernie Sanders at tonight’s MSNBC Democratic Town Hall in Las Vegas.

Priorities spokesman Justin Barasky said the superPAC’s messaging is the same as it would need to be for the general election: Promoting Clinton and attacking Republican presidential candidates.

Sanders, a Vermont senator, has introduced legislation to end the use of private prison corporations to detain immigrants.

Sanders also defended his self-described Democratic Socialism.

Bernie Sanders pose for a photo before a debate earlier this month. She leads 481-55 over Sanders, according to AP’s count.

In South Carolina, Clinton’s lead is larger, at 56% to Sanders’ 32%.

New Hampshire, which Sanders won by 22 percentage points, has eight superdelegates. Now that NBC News has released the new data from their own national polls, in a joint effort with the Wall Street Journal, the tide seems to be swaying against Clinton and into Sanders’ direction. Nevada was particularly hard hit and had the highest monthly foreclosure rate in the US for five years until February 2012, according to the data firm RealtyTrac.

“It is absolutely incomprehensible that we have Republicans in the U.S. Senate – my colleagues in the Senate – who refuse to honor the Constitution of the United States”, Sanders said at the meeting.

“Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don’t have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists”, she said.