Obama and Sanders to hold private meeting Wednesday

Mr. Sanders also hit Ms. Clinton on her late responses to the Keystone pipeline and Trans-Pacific Partnership, accusing the former secretary of state of only supporting ideas when it is convenient for her campaign.

Sanders said he and Clinton are in a “nip-and-tuck” race in Iowa but predicted that, with a success, he would begin to see more support from establishment Democrats who have coalesced around the former secretary of state’s candidacy.

The above information leaves a lot open to interpretation. So his sit-down Wednesday with Sanders was being closely watched for any signs of the president’s leanings. Hillary’s camp will probably dismiss that idea.

“To my mind, we will win here in Iowa if the voter turnout is high”, Sanders said.

“There must be consequences”, Clinton said as she suddenly became stricken with the hack attack.

“I have to admit, I’m not the hippest guy around”, Sanders told CNN in an interview aboard his campaign bus. “I think what Hillary presents is a recognition that translating values into governance and delivering the goods is ultimately the job of politics”. The polls are giving Bernie Sanders, the 74-year-old self-described socialist, a slender lead in Iowa and an advantage of 19 percentage points in New Hampshire.

“What I said on a television program, and I did not say it well, is that sometimes the base of an organization looks at the world a little bit differently than the leadership”, Sanders said.

Dickinson says Sanders is trying to position himself as the candidate of hope, looking toward the future. Bernie Sanders has repeatedly said he has a better chance of beating the eventual Republican nominee in the November 8 general election than fellow Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s campaign had pushed for fewer debates earlier in the campaign, but now says she will participate in the forum if her competitors do.

“When you’re in the White House you can not pick the issues you want to work on, you’ve got to be ready to take on every issue that comes your way, including those you can not predict”, Clinton told the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines on Monday.

“Would I like her to come on board?” “So we’re working hard all over the state of Iowa, and I think that work will pay off”. Sanders is counting on enthusiastic younger voters to boost turn out at the caucuses to offset Clinton’s organizational strength.

Mrs Clinton attempted to deflect criticism of being a newcomer to the economic inequality debate that Mr Sanders used first to fire up grassroots liberals, making the Iowa caucus a far closer race.