Hillary Clinton Poll in Iowa: Democratic Front-Runner Leads in Quinnipiac

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton bowed to pressure from Hispanic activists Tuesday and apologized for using the term “illegal immigrants” at a town hall earlier this month.

“Well, I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in”, Clinton said.

Her backers in the financial industry say they have little expectation her family’s personal profits will influence her policymaking, noting their own opposition to her plan to raise taxes on hedge fund and private equity gains known as carried interest.

Although the results show no gain for Clinton, Quinnipiac’s assistant director of polling, Peter Brown, said “she’ll take the status quo”.

Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent and avowed socialist, said that he would allow all undocumented immigrants who have been in the US for at least five years to stay without threat of deportation.

Whatever Trump’s and Carson’s thoughts on tracking immigrants are, Clinton’s comments on the campaign trail eight years ago are at clear odds with her current campaign rhetoric.

“Yes, I will. That was a poor choice of words”. The next day, Clinton said, while speaking at a Democratic women’s political forum, “When women talk, some people think we’re shouting”. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush faced blowback in August for repeatedly using the term “anchor baby”, a slur used to describe children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants.

According to a new Quinnipiac poll, Clinton has the support of 51 percent of Democratic voters, unchanged from a month ago.

The union could be an asset to Clinton in the general election because it has a large presence in several battleground states, including Florida and Colorado.

“My parents had a saying in Spanish – “Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres” – which means, ‘Tell me who you’re hanging with and I’ll tell you who you are, ‘” said Alma R. Gonzalez, an uncommitted superdelegate from Florida. “I go after the hedge funds, big insurance companies, shadow banking”.

Clinton, the frontrunner in the race, broke with President Barack Obama’s statement that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the group which has claimed credit for Friday’s attacks, is “contained” but said that she did agree with the notion that the us alone can not shoulder the fight against extremist groups.

Likely Democratic caucus goers – 47 percent – said Sanders would be the best steward of the economy, while 42 percent preferred Clinton.

I suggest that Hillary’s PC groveling over this issue and the term “radical Islam” only reveal her to be beholden to identity politics at the expense of the rest of us.

“People knew what they were doing back then, because of greed, and it caused me harm”, said Mr. Wittneben, the Democratic chairman in Emmet County, Iowa.