Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Bernie Sanders are exchanging Twitter burns

For days, Clinton has cast Sanders as a less forceful advocate for gun control, honing in on a 2005 vote he cast that gave immunity to gun manufacturers. On Tuesday, she broadened her critique, arguing that if Sanders wouldn’t combat the National Rifle Association, the nation’s largest gun lobby, he can’t be trusted to take on other special interests. If she jumps behind Clinton, she will undoubtedly anger the legions of like-minded progressives who are powering Sanders’ insurgent campaign.

Briggs added, “He has also stood up to the National Rifle Association”, noting that Sanders lost a 1988 congressional race in part because he supported a ban on assault weapons.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made stops in Ames and Dubuque Tuesday and she’s telling audiences the campaign has entered the “let’s get real” phase. “I happen not to be one of them”.

Since being elected into Congress in 1990, Sanders has introduced his plan for single-payer health care 11 times, including a 2.2 percent increase on income taxes and as much as an 8.7 percent increase in payroll taxes in nine of those proposals. By raising the issue of Sanders’ alleged tax hikes, team Clinton is reminding Democratic primary voters that Republicans will do the same, times infinity, if Sanders is the nominee. The former secretary of state suggested in November that Sanders’ plan would raise taxes on the middle class. And this week, she characterized his state-based plan as a “risky deal” that would turn “over your and my health insurance to governors”. “In 2008, she was attacking Obama because Obama was attacking her because she was supporting universal health care”, Sanders said Wednesday on MSNBC.

“It is time for the United States to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide health care as a right to every man, woman and child”.

Like the Devil who is able to quote Scripture to suit his purposes, Chelsea Clinton’s statement contains a grain of truth – but it is not the whole story.

“She’s waiting way too long”, said one Democratic senator who asked not to be named.

The poll found that 48 percent of Democratic primary voters support Clinton, while 41 percent said they favor Sanders. Last month’s Quinnipiac poll had Clinton at 51 percent compared to Sanders’s 40 percent. Just a month ago, she had 20 percentage points on him nationally. He did not include health insurance on the list, but reminded Clinton that she once supported his ideas.

Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday morning that she’s “not nervous” about the recent gains by her opponent in Iowa.

Todd referred to the essential difference between the two campaigns as a “passion gap”, and said that the Clinton campaign has chosen to brush off its candidate’s lack of passion. Earlier in this election season, the group backed the “Run, Warren, Run” campaign aimed at urging Elizabeth Warren to get in the race.

On January 12, MoveOn reported that Bernie Sanders had won their endorsement, with more than 78 percent of the vote in an online poll with record turnout.