Sanders Backs Gun Control Legislation Ahead of Democratic Debate

Bill Clinton, widely credited for helping Barack Obama win a second term in 2012, is now regularly headlining wife Hillary’s campaign trail especially in New Hampshire, where she trails Bernie Sanders in several recent statewide polls. Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, a very distant third in the polls, will be the wild card in the debate.

He recounted how Hillary Clinton negotiated with foreign leaders, such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, when she was secretary of state. In fact, MSNBC had a headline, hours after news came out that Bernie Sanders had moved ahead in Iowa, that Trump and Clinton maintained frontrunner status nationally.

Most Clinton advisers and allies speak on condition of anonymity to candidly assess her vulnerabilities and the Clintons’ outlook on the race. The candidate has made near-daily television appearances where she has challenged Sanders’ stances on health care and gun control.

Obama “just was the kind of guy I could get behind. I think Hillary will be president at the right time”.

If he can’t expand his base, Sanders can tout all the polls he wants that show him doing better than Clinton in hypothetical head-to-head contests with Republicans, but he won’t be the Democratic nominee. Bernie Sanders beats her out among women ages 18-34 that identify as either independents or Democrats 50-31.

The Sanders campaign – with more than 50 paid S.C. staffers and offices across the state – says its volunteers have knocked on more than 165,000 doors statewide and attempted to reach 500,000 voters, roughly the number of ballots cast in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. A majority of Americans, including 73 percent of Democrats and 52 percent of Republicans, said Bill Clinton does not factor into their opinion of Hillary for president.

Sanders tends to get support from liberal Democrats while centrists prefer Clinton, but the endorsements this week don’t fit that pattern precisely.

Instead Clinton, who entered the race as the prohibitive favorite, played it safe, opting for as few debates as possible, scheduled at times when viewership was likely to be low, like a Sunday on a long holiday weekend. The Sanders stock is trading in the 60 cents range, Clinton is in the 30-40 cents range.

The Sanders campaign had raised more than $3 million since Tuesday, when Clinton ratcheted up her health care critique.

Furthermore, creating even more echoes from 2008, Sanders has raised more individual contributions to his campaign than anyone in history. Clinton insiders have said in numerous reports this month that the campaign failed to take Sanders seriously enough.

Clyburn, who is not endorsing a candidate before his state’s primary, said Clinton aides in SC had expressed misgivings to him about the state of her campaign. “If we’re trying to attract the Hispanic vote, where are they?” he said, looking around the room at scores of fellow white voters. Bernie Sanders next week in Iowa and New Hampshire, CNN has learned.

It’s tempting to look for parallels from 2008: Clinton had the backing of the party establishment, but an insurgent named Barack Obama beat her in Iowa and ran away with the nomination.

For much of the past year, Clinton led Sanders in national polls by more than 20 points. This ad is an indictment of the Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party, ” he said.

Almost 500 people showed up in Coralville Friday night for a Clinton rally.