In SC, Sanders acknowledges he’d lose Democratic nomination if

“I would hope every candidate would join me in saying finally, finally, health care must be a right for all people”, Sanders said in a not-so-thinly veiled jab at Clinton.

SC is Sanders’ most dire early state.

When Sanders was running closer to Clinton, he could afford to run a campaign that focused on his issues and ideas, but now that he is trailing by double digits in Iowa, SC and Nevada, Sen. Clinton and her campaign have not provided many specific details about the policy, but they have characterized it as part of a platform focused on the middle class.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is spending the coming weeks promoting a series of tax benefits that she says will help boost the take-home pay for middle class families. The survey predicts 72% of voters will cast their ballot for Clinton, 15% percent for Sanders and 2% for O’Malley. “I intend to win the general election”.

“Well, I think everybody in America should be able to afford health care”, he told reporters. Her campaign has pointed to a bill proposed by Sanders in the Senate in 2013 to create a single-payer health care system that would have increased income taxes and payroll taxes to pay for it. “You don’t need tax credits if you have a cost-effective health-care system….” Kirsten Gillibrand’s Family and Medical Leave Act.

“Some of the Hillary supporters that I’m friends with, they were making fun of me at first”, said Wright, who has voted with the Green Party in the past.

“When a working-class woman has a baby, she should not be forced to go back to work a week or two later”, Sanders said.

Since the last Bloomberg Politics National Poll, Clinton has faced her chief rivals, Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, in two nationally televised debates and won positive reviews for her performance during a day-long grilling by Republicans investigating her handling of 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, including a US ambassador.

Sanders, in his speech, made an effort to emphasize his commitment to criminal justice reform and O’Malley, who ditched his suit jacket and tie, continued to draw a sharp contrast with the other candidates.

On Saturday, O’Malley flatly said his campaign was not taking on debt to pay for travel and staff. “Well guess what, you’ve got three”, he told the crowd. “And we are not such a poor party that we can’t afford to have three choices”.