Hillary Clinton Dials Back anti-Sanders Attacks as Iowa Caucuses Approach

The Democratic leader is committed to continue the work made during President Obama’s administration and fights for children and families as she has done in her political career, the same source stressed.

Clinton’s focus on urgency is a direct rebuttal Sanders and his supporters who view the former secretary of state’s pragmatism as a desire to go slow and compromise.

MARION, Iowa (AP) — To Bernie Sanders, President Barack Obama’s improbable victory in the 2008 Iowa caucuses was a testament to the power of an inspirational underdog. And, increasingly, they’ve been critical of one another on a range of issues.

The weekend disclosure from a source close to the situation that Bloomberg is laying the groundwork for a run that he could launch should Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton falter, sent shock waves rippling through the entire presidential field. “And I think the American people do not want to see our nation move toward an oligarchy, where billionaires control the political process”.

The message Clinton and her team sought to drive home was that her proposals are more realistic than those of Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist who has put taking down the financial elite and Wall Street at the heart of his campaign.

“I have no basis for this, but I don’t like her”, said Carolyn Ferry, a nurse from Eagle Grove, Iowa, who plans to caucus for Sanders.

Though other factors will matter, too, we expect Sanders and Cruz to benefit from the difference between a caucus and a primary in states like Iowa. The single best way to change an election is to change who participates, and our choices about electoral processes – caucuses or primaries – do just that. Sanders continued highlighting polls that show him outperforming Clinton against top Republicans in hypothetical matchups. Clinton and Sanders have been campaigning nonstop to woo voters in the remaining days, as has Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. She wore a red-white-and-blue “Bernie 2016” button on her jacket as she wrapped her arm around Clinton’s shoulder and posed for a keepsake photo. For those who think Trump can not win, remember that Ronald Reagan won twice, and George W. Bush won reelection. But, on the latter, Iowa changed that, he said.

“You made it happen, you made history”, Sanders said. And he said he doubts voters will find anything “radical” with policy reforms that benefit low- and middle-class Americans.

Sanders has also begun showing a little more personal depth on the trail – proving that he may be crotchety, but at least a few people love him. To Hillary Clinton, Obama’s win over her eight years ago proved the importance of a robust and refined political apparatus.

“It doesn’t matter which one of these two Democrats win, they’re coming after them full”, Hare said. We make an effort to protect discussions from repeated comments — either by the same reader or different readers. “We’re going to be working to get our people to the polls”. Clinton went on to say, “I am not interested in ideas that sound good on paper but will never make it in the real world”. Among Democrats, Clinton has a lead of 47.9 percent to 41.5 percent for Bernie Sanders in the same tabulation.

Clinton, Iowa, is a small city of 27,000 and named for the sixth governor of the state of NY. He said he is the candidate who can get people behind goals like going to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would be able to “remake Washington in his own image”.