Sanders Camp: Clinton Only Wants New Debate Now That ‘Race Has Changed’

The New York Times recently reported that, as Sanders surged in early state polls, several Clinton advisors expressed regret over not pushing for more debates.

“I think he and the vice president have tried to be fair and even-handed in the process, and I expect this would remain to be so”, Sanders told reporters after the encounter.

“Sen. Sanders is happy to have more debates but we are not going to schedule them on an ad hoc basis at the whim of the Clinton campaign”.

The New Hampshire poll surveyed 568 likely Democratic primary voters and 612 likely Republican primary voters between January 17-23.

Obama said he had a “good meeting” with Sanders and noted that he had previously met with Clinton during the campaign.

Clinton was taken aback by “the amount of concern that people have about addiction and mental health” she explained in an interview with AOL.com in Cedar Falls, Iowa late Tuesday.

“We do not represent Wall Street, we don’t represent corporate America, we don’t want their money”, Sanders said. Sanders asked, adding: “What leadership means is not simply following the majority”. The Clinton campaign has said that if all three campaigns agree to participate in the debate, the DNC would have to sanction it.

“As we come in to the final days, we are focused on turning our people out… focused on increasing and maximizing support and… making sure we are in the right places”, said Matt Paul, Clinton’s Iowa campaign manager.

Sanders told the Associated Press that he is proud of the moves and gains his campaign has made and believes he will make it to the convention with a win.

The DNC sanctioned six debates and has drawn a hard line against adding any more to the schedule.

Sanders is trying to upset Clinton in Iowa, where her advantage has narrowed in recent weeks, and then claim victory in New Hampshire, where polls show him with a steady lead in the February 9 primary.

The phenomenon has at least as much to do with Clinton as with Sanders: Democrats are eager for an alternative to her inauthentic politics and cautious policies.

Later in the evening, the Democratic presidential hopeful blasted Clinton even more directly.

Though many Democratic strategists still predict she will capture the nomination, they now expect the race to continue into the spring.

But what if all three candidates participated in the unsanctioned debate? If they bar all three of the candidates, they will have no debates. “We were always concerned that this would have been the first time in 32 years without a Democratic debate before the New Hampshire primary”.