Sanders says a Bloomberg bid would point to wealth imbalance

Me too. And I’ll bet Hillary does as well.

Bernie Sanders’ latest TV spot portrays him as a candidate of change.

“I voted against the war in Iraq”, said Sanders.

Clinton, who lost the Democratic primary to Obama in 2008, was for months the clear front-runner to be the party’s nominee this time around, but opinion polls have showed a surge of support for Sanders in recent weeks.

The refrain was a shot against Sanders, who Clinton aides and advisers believe is promising pie-in-the-sky plans that he wouldn’t be able to deliver on if he gets to the White House.

“Obama in 2008 ran a campaign which is really going to stay in the history books”, Sanders told reporters here following a packed event at a union hall.

In addition to decrying economic inequities, Sanders called for a $15 minimum wage, free tuition at state colleges and universities, campaign finance reform, and repairs to a “broken criminal justice system”, the Star Tribune says.

Her team wants to present her as tested, tough and proven.

Florida senator Marco Rubio, who has emerged as the favourite of the party’s more moderate establishment wing, polled at 8 per cent nationally, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 6 per cent and former Florida governor Jeb Bush at 5 per cent.

Here’s what may be the central question on the Democratic side of the 2016 presidential race: does “experience” trump (or create) “judgment”?

Clinton aides, and the candidate herself, were overjoyed Monday when Politico published an interview with Obama where the president pretty clearly dismissed the idea that Sanders is carrying on his legacy.

O’Malley was pushed on what his supporters should do on caucus night if – under the quirks of the Iowa process – they don’t reach a minimum level of support in their local precinct. He humblebragged about his athletic talents of when he was younger, and then answered a question about releasing his health records by looking at his wife, Jane, in the audience and asking her where they were.

When we asked the Sanders campaign about the claim, they submitted a consultant’s memo from January 8, 2016, that focuses on the Quinnipiac study and two other polls, a CNN/ORC International Poll from December 17-21 and an Economist/YouGov poll from December 18-21. “You know look, I’ve been around a long time”.

“(S)he’s extraordinarily experienced – and, you know, wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out – (and) sometimes (that) could make her more cautious, and her campaign more prose than poetry”, Obama said. An earlier Boston Herald survey in the Granite State showed him running well ahead of her in the first-in-the- nation Democratic nominating primary by 55 percent to 39 percent.

Mrs Clinton has argued that Mr Sanders lacks experience to tackle a wide range of issues. “What isn’t moving about a child getting more access to healthcare?”

Clinton even embraced the fact she draws attacks from right-wingers. “And I understand that”.