With Democratic race tightening, Clinton attacks Sanders

Though Clinton has the backing of Democratic leaders and top donors, polls show a tighter race in Iowa while Sanders has built a slight lead in New Hampshire, which borders his home state of Vermont.

Clinton compared her stance with Sanders on guns, health care and Wall Street.

Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, Sanders has established himself as the front-runner.

“It is time to pick a side”, Clinton says in a not-so-subtle dig at Sanders. Among all voters, she dropped seven points in the head-to-head matchup (Sanders gained nine), but the percentage of people viewing her favorably fell from 81 to 74. “I’ve got the scars to show for it”.

Clinton is in a strong position in numerous states that hold primaries later in the nominating contest.

For supposedly being the presumptive front-runner for the Democrat Party nomination for president as the primaries near, Hillary Clinton’s trouble seem to be growing, not subsiding.

Last week, former President Bill Clinton noted that neighbors won every modern New Hampshire primary in which they competed, with the exception of 2004 when John Kerry (Massachusetts) beat Howard Dean (Vermont).

Clinton, who recently announced she is pregnant her second child, also described her own upbringing, saying she has tried to follow her parents’ example in raising her 15-month-old daughter.

But momentum can be an unpredictable force in politics and at that point her entire theory of victory will be predicated on Sanders’ weakness with black and Hispanic voters.

“I wish that we could elect a Democrat who could wave a magic wand and say, ‘We shall do this and we shall do that.’ That ain’t the real world we’re living in”, Clinton said. “I think she’ll win, I guess”. “Sanders wants to do”. She talked about helping the middle class by not adding taxes.

All of this culminated in Clinton using Sanders’ oft used line – that he is taking launching a political revolution – against him. “I worry if we give Republicans Democratic permission to do that, we’ll go back to an era – before we had the Affordable Care Act – that would strip millions and millions and millions of people off their health insurance”.

The survey comes as a raft of new polling shows Sanders’ strength in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states to vote.

But they are also because Clinton and her aides see the race tightening. Of those who support Sanders, 55% say they have made up their mind, while 49% of Clinton supporters say the same. Clinton’s campaign suggested that the senator’s stance a decade ago would be in opposition to a slate of gun control measures proposed by the Obama administration earlier in January.

Likely voters said Sanders could handle the economy and climate change better than Clinton could.

The democratic candidate addressed topics across the board.

A Quinnipiac University survey released on Tuesday found Sanders overtaking Clinton in Iowa. Barack Obama and Sen.

In a new poll out Tuesday, Sanders was even ahead of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa.