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Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy for the Democratic nomination arises.

Now, with the clock ticking toward the first official report card on the 2016 campaign, the former president came to western Iowa this weekend with an eye toward upping the game.

Some leading Democrats in the Unites States are increasingly anxious about Hillary Clinton’s prospects for winning the party’s presidential nomination, warning that Senator Bernie Sanders’ growing strength in early battleground states and strong fundraising point to a campaign that could last well into the spring.

Clinton officially entered the race on April 12th with a two-minute long video and a tweet.

Clinton advisers and allies told the Times, on condition of anonymity, that the candidate and her husband are so alarmed by the momentum Sanders has gathered that they are questioning their data and polling teams’ voter-turnout models and analysis, wondering whether the support they’re counting on will really show up in Iowa Feb. 1. Clinton has accused Sanders of being weak on gun control, pointing to his repeated votes against the Brady Bill and in support of the so-called Charleston Loophole, which allows gun buyers to bypass a background check if it is not completed in three days. Her once-comfortable lead over Sanders in Iowa is now just four points, pretty much a toss-up.

Clinton and her supporters still remember her disappointing third-place finish in Iowa in 2008 against Obama. “I will not abandon any segment of American society – whether you’re gay or black or Latino or poor, or working class – just because it is politically expedient at a given time”, he said. She added that the charges were “actually founded in what we can discern about what he would do” as president.

Sanders, meanwhile, focused on his involvement in the civil rights movement, criminal justice proposals and a call for greater gun control.

Or, more simply, as Bernie Sanders himself has said, “Don’t underestimate me”. “Either we stand with the gun lobby, or we join the president and stand up to them”. In the past, he’s linked his support for the 2005 bill to his home state of Vermont, arguing that even though he does not personally own firearms, he did not want to hurt small stores in his state.

Sanders has said he was open to reconsidering the law, but said last week his vote was “not a mistake”.

“I’m pleased that this legislation is being introduced”, Sanders said in the statement.

In a recent ad, Sanders said there are “two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street”, and that “one says it’s okay to take millions from big banks and then tell him what to do”.

Although Sanders’ top aides deny that the decision is a flip-flop, Sanders’ move backs away from statements he and his top aides made earlier in the campaign.

Almost 500 people showed up in Coralville Friday night for a Clinton rally.

Clinton describes the grueling toll that sleep deprivation took on her when she used to travel the globe to meet with foreign dignitaries.

“She can’t be president if you don’t nominate her. And if you do nominate her, I don’t think they can stop her from becoming president”, Bill Clinton said.