Sanders does about-face on Clinton’s private email controversy

Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, speaks in Manchester, N.H. One year before Election Day 2016, Republicans are consumed by uncertainty and infighting while Democrats are coalescing behind Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Clinton has faced especially low dishonesty ratings in key swing states as she battles controversy surrounding her use of a personal email account while serving as secretary of state.

In perhaps the most memorable line of the first Democratic debate in Las Vegas, Sanders turned to Clinton and said, “The American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails”.

Similarly, the thing to watch for now is whether Sanders begins to stray into suggesting the e-mail story sows doubts about Clinton’s honesty or integrity.

Tad Devine, Sanders’ top strategist, said there is “absolutely” no plan for Sanders to start going after Clinton on emails and that his comments to the Wall Street Journal were not new.

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A Monmouth poll of likely Democratic caucusgoers released last week has Clinton holding a 41-point lead in Iowa, with the former secretary receiving 65 percent support compared to Sanders’ 24 percent. Seventy-nine percent said they viewed Clinton favorably. On Thursday, Josh Schwerin, Clinton’s campaign spokesman, issued a statement that took issue that Sanders’ comments to The Wall Street Journal.

Clinton went on to rack up several wins after the inaugural debate, including coming out on top at the end of an 11-hour appearance before the House Select Committee on Benghazi and receiving endorsements from a slew of congressional lawmakers and major unions, including AFSCME. “Let it play itself out”, Sanders said. If he’d said “The investigation should proceed unimpeded” during the debate, he might not have gotten such a round of applause, but at least he’d still be in the race.

Clinton says at a town hall that she realizes curbing gun violence is a “tough battle”.

If she was paying attention, Clinton would see she leads Sanders 46 percent to 32 percent with former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley polling 5 percent and 17 percent of likely caucusgoers undecided, according to a poll conducted for KBUR-AM radio in Burlington and Monmouth College. “We are building a strong team in SC and look forward to getting to know the voters in the Palmetto State”, O’Malley spokeswoman Haley Morris said.

Citing the shooting death this summer of a woman inside a Coralville mall, a somber Hillary Clinton called on her supporters Tuesday to make guns a “voting issue like the other side does”.