Lowa for Trump & Hillary

Hillary Clinton is picking up an endorsement from the New York Times.

The kind words, under the headline “A Chance to Reset the Republican Race“, amount to an endorsement of Kasich’s bid.

Ted Cruz likes to boast of his poor relationship with the New York Times, and the feeling is mutual: New York City’s paper of record ridiculed him and Donald Trump Saturday as it endorsed John Kasich as the only “plausible” GOP candidate.

The New York Times’ editorial board on Saturday endorsed Hillary Clinton and John Kasich for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, a potential boost for the candidates two days before the Iowa caucuses.

The board praised Clinton’s term as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, and said she had shown a lifelong commitment to American workers, particularly women. The newspapers says it picked her over Bernie Sanders because of her experience and policy ideas.

Sanders also would not address reports that the Clinton campaign is training its caucus leaders to potentially throw some support behind long-shot candidate former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley in order to blunt potential Sanders gains as a means of exploiting the complicated Iowa caucus rules.

Trump leads Texas Sen.

The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll gives the billionaire businessman 28 percent of likely GOP caucus-goers, with Cruz at 23 percent. Sen. “I like the fact that I can get all kinds of newspapers to endorse me”.

Cruz led this poll in early January – but has been under constant attack from Trump and Rubio. Ted Cruz at 12%, Florida Sen. “The Iowa Republican party has done so in past elections and I will not apologize to anybody for using every tool we can to encourage Iowa voters to come out and vote”.

In the wake of last year’s church shooting in Charleston the killed nine people, Clinton said it was time to “tackle” the issue of guns “with urgency and conviction”.

The paper said that the campaign of Cruz, a first-term senator, “isn’t about constitutional principles; it’s about ambition”.

On the Republican side, Trump continues to hold more than double the support of his nearest competitor, while the race for second and third place remains muddled: Just 6 points separate the second place candidate from the one in fifth place.

She faced the prospect of escalating political heat from revelations Friday that the private email server she used when she was Obama’s first secretary of state contained top-secret messages that should have remained within proper, secured channels.