Sanders surges to lead in Iowa with 26-point swing

The Democratic front-runner told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” that Sanders’ charge that Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign support Clinton because they are all part of the establishment didn’t make sense to her. The latter is tied to other quotes cherry-picked from throughout the senator’s career about China and Nicaragua. “It would be such a huge step”, she said. After Clinton was up by 18 points in December, the new poll represents a whopping 26-point shift in just one month. Clinton scored 65 percent as the best to handle foreign policy if she was elected president, while Sanders scored 25 percent.

As she had before, Clinton also pledged to overturn the Hyde Amendment, a measure that bars the use of federal funds being spent on abortions in most cases.

Speaking at a campaign rally in Indianola, Iowa, on Thursday, Clinton said that Sanders is mostly trying to avoid the issue of foreign policy.

She added: “I really don’t understand what he means by that”. Clinton has seemingly proven to be the party establishment choice, earning 458 points – FiveThirtyEight’s scale awards 10 points for governors, 5 points for USA senators and 1 point for US representatives – to Sanders’ 2 points.

Another 65.8% said they do not plan to see the newly released movie critical of Clinton’s role in the attack on the USA embassy in Libya, titled 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.

Olivia Miller, a 20-year-old sophomore from Kansas City, Missouri, said she’s leaning toward supporting Clinton and called Sanders “overhyped a little bit because I think that some of the issues he has been talking about are too socialist”. “I’m very pleased”, Clinton said after learning of the paper’s endorsement.

Some New Hampshire Democrats are urging the presidential candidates to schedule another debate before the first-in-the-nation primary February 9.

During some appearances, Clinton reportedly sounded decidedly less populist notes than she’s been hitting on the campaign trail.

Lovato follows a string of youth-friendly celebrities to endorse the Democratic presidential candidate. The ad shows Sanders greeting mostly white supporters on the campaign trail, with the crowds’ sizes slowly increasing. Barack Obama, Clinton leads 55 to 38 percent.