Hillary Clinton unloads on Bernie Sanders

These Democrats said Clinton should call for more debates so she can prosecute the case against Sanders.

Americans may end up electing an “establishment” candidate in November 2016, but the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries open up an opportunity for the self-proclaimed socialist to win the Democratic nomination.

“Count me in as one person, if Secretary Clinton and Gov. O’Malley want to do it, I’m there”, Sanders told MSNBC.

Over the past few months, Katy Perry, Lena Dunham, Abby Wambach and “Scandal” star Tony Goldwyn have all hit the trail on Clinton’s behalf – a move meant to woo youth voters, many of whom have rallied behind Sanders.

Clinton is in the midst of a campaign swing through Iowa today, where she’s been escalating her attacks on Sanders.

The Sanders campaign fired back in a statement to the AP, saying Clinton should be “ashamed” of her association with Brock.

“I am not interested in ideas that sound good on paper but will never make it in the real world”, Clinton said.

Brock, a longtime Clinton supporter who runs several super PACs aiding her candidacy said Thursday that a new Sanders ad was a “significant slight to the Democratic base”.

“At the end of this process we need a president who can do all aspects of this job”, she said. Driving the foreign policy message, Clinton released a new ad on Friday, in which the narrator says, “She’s the one leader who has what it takes to get every part of the job done”.

Iowa’s importance has only increased in recent days, given a string of polls that show Sanders leading in New Hampshire.

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. “And maybe Bernie’s theories have enabled her to step a little more to the left in what she talks about”. Meanwhile, 67 percent of those surveyed said they thought Sander’s policies would help the middle class, while only 30 perecent felt the same about Clinton. It’s a disparity that reflects her strategy of trying to distinguish herself there from rival Bernie Sanders, who leads in polls in New Hampshire but not in Iowa, said Tim Hagle, a political science professor at the University of Iowa. “Here’s an area where I think Secretary Clinton and I have a strong difference of opinion”.

“No. They aren’t. They’re standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought”, he said.