President Obama To Meet With Sanders Ahead Of Iowa, New Hampshire Races

Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday that he believes President Barack Obama has remained neutral in the increasingly contentious Democratic presidential primary and emphasized that he has fought at the president’s side on most of his political battles.

“I think he and the vice president have tried to be fair and even-handed in the process, and I expect they will continue to do that”, Sanders said.

His private 45-minute meeting with Barack Obama at the Oval Office came just days before the Iowa caucuses, where, once unthinkably, polls show Sanders running neck and neck with Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

Bernie Sanders said he’s relying on voter turnout for his campaign’s success not just in Iowa, but in every part of the country, NBC News reported. The president cast Clinton as ready to go on Day One, and Sanders as a compelling political star, but also a “bright, shiny object” in need of some more scrutiny. “But we do have differences, and as you start moving toward the caucus I want you to know where they are”.

Sanders has based his campaign on the support of young voters, who tend to vote in the low numbers, so turnout will be essential to his chances.

Despite the apparent similarities between Obama and Sanders’ Iowa runs – including their pull with young voters – the President rejected any comparison in an interview taped last week. “In 2008, I did my best to see that he would be elected president, campaigned hard for him, as I did in 2012”.

“We have no plans to sanction any further debates before the upcoming First in the Nation caucuses and primary”, Wasserman Schultz said in a statement, “but will reconvene with our campaigns after those two contests to review our schedule”.

Color me skeptical that she will face criminal charges, especially after President Obama’s kind words for her. “I know that I will be a better president because of what I have learned in Iowa”, she said.

Clinton’s push for more debates signals her deficit in New Hampshire against Sanders, who has represented neighboring Vermont in Congress for more than two decades.

Harkin says the candidates who catch on as the “new thing” in the early campaigning often fail because their ground game in meeting Iowans isn’t good enough.

Determined not to repeat her losing effort, her campaign arrived in Iowa early previous year and quickly built up a sizable staff, led by some of the strategists who worked on Obama’s 2008 bid.

It was Mr. Obama’s comments to Politico that prompted the chatter that he supports Ms. Clinton, but a closer and complete reading of the interview shows the President keen to maintain his neutrality while appreciating the qualities of both Ms. Clinton and Mr. Sanders.

Furthermore, Media Matters America estimate Donald Trump reports received over 23 times the network coverage of Bernie Sanders. Then we’re going to New Hampshire. “And even though we didn’t get it then, we’ve got it now and I’m going to defend it and improve it”.