Sanders leads in New Hampshire, Clinton still more electable

Sanders’ campaign has responded to the critiques by questioning Clinton’s judgment and noting her 2002 vote for the Iraq War, something that then-Sen.

Clinton lost Iowa in 2008, a setback that she never fully recovered from against Obama, who went on to win the White House. The Monmouth University poll shows Clinton with 52 percent support from Democratic primary voters nationwide and Sanders with 37 percent. Despite all those prepared strikes Secretary Clinton launched, it would seem Senator Sanders weathered it all fairly well, but also countered with similar strength.

Clinton took up the foreign policy attack in her 30-minute speech Thursday, criticizing Sanders’ suggestion to invite Iranian troops into Syria to help fight Islamic State militants, which she said was like “asking the arsonist to be the firefighter”.

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The Vermont senator said in the first debate that he couldn’t care less about Clinton’s “damn emails”, playing into the Clinton camp’s insistence that her use of a private email server while secretary of state, and the risk it posed to national security, are no big deal.

Sanders rising numbers have put Hillary Clinton on defense, and even republicans are taking him on: “Can you believe this?” Thankfully, Ms Clinton is a staunch votary to Mr Obama’s flagship healthcare legislation and vehemently supports the latter’s pet-issue of gun violence, while Mr Sanders has no alternative plan in this regard.

The effort is being organized by New Hampshire Debates, an organization that has been pushing for more joint appearances between the candidates. “Yet the overwhelming majority of voters have not seen you on one stage; jousting for the greater good”.

“Clinton’s message has always been more effective for a general election audience than the primary activist base”, said strategist Ben LaBolt, a former Obama campaign aide.

She said people “who are so adamantly opposed” to abortion rights “have no regard for what women’s lives are like”.

On the stump, Sanders connects with the frustrations of liberal voters who are exhausted of Washington politicians and establishment politics in the same way that GOP front-runner Donald Trump connects with those on the right.

Wins or close-wins in those states will be needed for him to have any kind of viable campaign following the New Hampshire primary.

“There’s no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans – they’re all establishment politicians”. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand of NY.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is challenging Bernie Sanders’ consistency on a host of issues in the run up to the Iowa caucuses, hitting her Democratic rival in an area that many of his die-hard supporters feel differentiates the two candidates. In New Hampshire, Clinton was introduced Friday by the state’s popular Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. signs autographs during a campaign stop, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Peterborough, N.H.