With Democratic race narrowing, Clinton rips into Sanders

This is a significant drop for Clinton as last month she was up by 11 per cent.

The same poll released on December 15 showed Clinton in the lead with 51 percent, trailed by Sanders with 40 percent.

Monmouth’s survey comes two days after an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll found Sanders narrowing the gap with Clinton in Iowa. With the Iowa caucuses less than three weeks away, 49 percent of likely caucus-goers support Sanders and 44 percent support Clinton. The Vermont lawmaker has eroded Clinton’s November lead and now holds support from 53 percent of likely New Hampshire primary voters to Clinton’s 39 percent. Among Democratic voters under 24 years old, 68 percent say they back Sanders, while just 26 percent support Clinton.

Clinton announced Tuesday that Gov. Peter Shumlin would campaign for her in eastern Iowa on Wednesday and Thursday. It also is the second poll this week that shows a tight race in Iowa.

Clinton was campaigning in New Hampshire on behalf of her mother, Hillary Clinton, ostensibly to tout the campaign’s early childhood education plan.

“I think a candidate who was originally thought to be the anointed candidate, the inevitable candidate, is now locked in a very hard race here in Iowa and in New Hampshire”, Sanders told reporters in Iowa Monday.

Clinton accepted the endorsement here of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and used the occasion to tear into Sanders for his 2005 Senate vote that gave immunity to gun manufacturers.

“Anybody who cares about real reform in our political system who cares about making a difference that will literally in this case save lives has to stand with us”, said Clinton.

While I support Bernie Sanders in the upcoming primaries, I also know that Hillary Clinton winning the nomination is likely.

Clinton charged that Sanders’s policy proposals were unrealistic, that the Vermont senator would raise taxes on middle-class families and that he could not be trusted to fight special interests and protect President Barack Obama’s achievements, including his signature health-care law. Like many pieces of legislation, it is complicated, ” he said. It surveyed 413 New Hampshire voters drawn from a list of registered Democrats and independents who voted in a primary in 2012 or 2014, or who voted in both general elections and said they meant to vote in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. The national poll follows other polls that show what appears to be a surging Sanders in both Iowa and New Hampshire.

Clinton has increasingly criticized Sanders for past votes that were viewed favorably by the National Rifle Association.