Trump, Sanders still up in New Hampshire

Marco Rubio, trailing both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in Iowa polling, charged Sunday neither of his rivals are “unbeatable” ahead of Monday’s Iowa caucuses.

Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on Sunday tried to temper expectations on how they will do in the first USA presidential nominating contest in Iowa on Monday, reflecting unease about the unpredictability of the race in the state.

In Muscatine that morning, Wilton dentist Keith Stanley said he had walked into the town hall favoring Trump, but was leaving so impressed by Rubio that he might switch his vote.

While he disparaged Trump’s campaign “the greatest show on Earth”, he saved his most pointed criticism for Cruz.

On the Democratic side, U.S. Sen. If the thousands of students who fill his rallies turn out on Monday they could produce an upset.

He added: “If people are concerned about electability – and Democrats should be very concerned, because we certainly do not want to see some right-wing extremist in the White House – I think Bernie Sanders is the candidate”.

Clinton’s lead over her competition is narrower than Trump’s, making it a tight race between the two front-running presidential hopefuls with high potential for rapidly shifting results.

Clinton started her 2016 race with a sizable lead over Sanders in both national and early-state polls.

Sanders staffers launched volunteers from 68 locations across the state on Saturday, said Robert Becker, the director of the Iowa campaign.

But, like other candidates, he moved to soften expectations as the vote grew nearer.

“Speaking is hard for me”, Giffords said, a nod to the fact that she is still recovering from the near-fatal shooting.

The poll is considered by pundits to be one of the most accurate, based on recent years.

While Trump made his remarks before the release of the Iowa poll, he noted that other polls have shown his lead in Iowa more tenuous than in other states.

On Monday, Iowans will gather in homes, gymnasiums, libraries, taverns and even grain elevators for caucuses to select their favorite for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations.

Only 3 percent of Republican likely caucusgoers remain undecided and 28 percent who named a candidate said they might change their mind before the caucuses at 7 p.m. tonight.

“I’m angry. And the American people have a right to be angry”, Sanders said to wild applause.

“I am disturbed, I have to say, (that) the tone of Secretary Clinton’s campaign is such that they are just bringing forth a lot of inaccurate statements regarding what I believe”, Sanders told canvassers in Charles City. Marco Rubio’s campaign sent a similar flyer to Iowa voters pressuring voters to attend the Iowa caucus. “We can’t let them die on the sidewalks of NY or the sidewalks of Iowa or anywhere else”. And on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Rubio said that he opposes “virtually everything Barack Obama stands for”.

On Saturday, Trump presented a $100,000 check to the Puppy Jake Foundation, which provides service dogs to wounded veterans, as the first disbursement of the money raised. The tentative New Hampshire event is to be Thursday, giving voters a chance to see the field debate before that state’s primary February 9.