It’s on: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will debate in New Hampshire

The former secretary of state has accumulated millions of dollars in speaking fees from financial firms, many of which have links to Wall Street, and Sanders has said a progressive would not take that much money from the financial industry and share corporate interests. “I can not even imagine not being here”. “I never thought that I’d be on a standing on a stage here asking people to vote for me for president”, she added. “I think that we have a chance to eat into that margin and have a good showing”.

“We are thrilled to welcome our Democratic presidential candidates to Michigan”, said Brandon Dillon, Michigan Democratic Party Chair in a release.

“I am here and I will be here all week, in small groups and large, making my case, answering questions”, Clinton said Tuesday night in Hampton.

Sanders pushed back on the suggestion that Clinton is a better general-election candidate than he would be.

What value is there in Clinton dabbing on Ellen, creating t-shirts that read “Yaaas, Hillary!” or offering reasons she’s “just like your abuela” if she’s not committed to the restoration of those neighborhoods and the people who birthed that dance move or live and breathe that language everyday?

Still, Sanders insisted that he’s the underdog in the Democratic race despite his commanding lead in New Hampshire polls. “And I hope you will choose with both your heart and your mind”.

While the news brings an end to a week of uncertainty surrounding the New Hampshire debate, it hardly signals an end to the disagreements between the two campaigns.

In 2012, Santorum won Iowa in 2012 and finished third in SC.

Jim Demers, Obama’s 2008 New Hampshire co-chair and a noted gambler, offered this when asked if he would bet on Clinton: “First of all, I am a betting man. Second, I would look at the odds”.

Reveling in a victory margin of less than half a percentage point after you started 40 or 50 points ahead in the polls hardly seems likely to generate enthusiasm for the long slog ahead.

Bush is banking on voters in New Hampshire to lift his struggling campaign.

“The historical record does back up this feeling that the neighbor usually wins here”, said Demers.

And in one of the more revealing exchanges of the night, Cooper asked Clinton what would be wrong with the so-called “political revolution” that Sanders frequent calls for. The Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate slammed Hillary Clinton for going too soft on financial regulation and pledged to break up the “too big to fail” banks and insurances companies within his first year as president if he wins the White House.