Second UNF poll says Hillary Clinton is on top of other candidates
“We thought the debate was a turning point for him and the Internet and the campaign donations”, said Sanders Iowa press secretary Lilia Chacon.
She had just finished the second round of four during a marathon, 11-hour grilling on the most controversial point of her tenure at the State Department.
Hillary Clinton has struggled as a candidate – to put it kindly – since she formally entered the presidential race in the spring. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe introduced her about 45 minutes later than the 12:30 program was supposed to begin. Now that Biden’s out, it’s likely that a good portion of this group will rally around Clinton, especially as we get to the actual voting and the party becomes eager to wrap the nomination up and unite behind a candidate while Republicans will still likely be fighting what promises to be a contentious primary battle.
Clinton Friday also shook off recent comments by Republican congressman Mo Brooks, who said the former United States chief diplomat should be impeachment on her first day in office if she is elected president. But, they said, her strong performance in both the debate and her congressional testimony showed off her foreign policy credentials and command of the issues for a broader audience. She failed to see many good news cycles since. On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden announced he would not run for president. Prominent Democratic donors seemed ready to jump on board his ship. “I’m sorry it doesn’t fit your narrative, Congressman”, Ms. Clinton replied when Ohio Republican Jim Jordan resurrected the accusation that White House spin doctors had massaged the message after the Benghazi killings to avoid damaging Mr. Obama’s re-election effort in 2012. Among those Democrats who watched the debate, both Sanders and Biden are viewed more favorably than they are among Democratic voters generally: Sanders’ favorability number bumps from 62% among all Democratic voters to 84% among debate viewers, while Biden climbs from 76% to 89% favorable. “It’s a big deal for O’Malley because it’s a chance for him to make a statement”. It will be the first time Katy Perry or former President Bill Clinton hits the campaign trail this year.
“Hillary Clinton was Beyoncé. She was flawless”, CNN Democratic political commentator Van Jones said on the network after the debate.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump echoed the sentiment while also taking a stab at Clinton.
That is a significant swing from Quinnipiac’s September poll, which found the race in a virtual dead heat with Sanders at 41 percent and Clinton at 40 percent. Now, the tables have turned, with the administration backing another controversial trade deal – the Trans-Pacific Partnership – and Clinton having declared her opposition.
Remember how it oddly worked to her advantage in 2008? But aside from the leaks coming unmistakably close to him and his family that an announcement was imminent, his fairly open criticism of HRC’s theory of governance made it imperative that he clarify his intensions. But the ultimate decision wasn’t.
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“She was glowing”, said Pamela Eakes, a Clinton donor from Seattle.
The Benghazi hearing came in the midst of a major political winning streak for Clinton. “They didn’t uncover anything new”, he told Fox News.
And this: “I believe we have to end the divisive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart….” What are her numbers today? “Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought”. The illness and death of his son, Beau, in May delayed a decision, but the temptation to run remained as long as Clinton was beset by the House Select Committee on Benghazi on the right and a surge in support for Sanders on the left. I am not running for Bill Clinton’s third term. No president with the best intentions in the world can change that by himself or herself. “It has been rejected and disproven by nonpartisan dispassionate investigators”. She had a saying that I think Biden would agree with: As long as you are alive there is hope. “I have been racking my brain about what more could have been done”. What they want, he said, is “capitalism with a human face”.
Pompeo asked whether Stevens was given her private email address, phone number, and home address.