Clinton cuts back on attacks against Sanders in Iowa

Rubbishing the Fox News newscast, the 68-year-old Clinton said they report anything about her. It may be recalled that in December 2012, the Democratic candidate had fainted and fell at her home.

Clinton then traveled to Davenport to meet with union members at Danceland Ballroom before speaking to more than 400 people at the Scott County Democratic Party’s “Red, White and Blue” fundraising dinner at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds.

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong). This cycle, her campaign has been more restrained, using proxies to remind people that Sanders is a socialist, allege that Bernie would take away our healthcare (leave it to Chelsea to make Hillary look like a political natural), and suggest his “America” ad is racist because of excessive whiteness.

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky). Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets diners at Riley’s Cafe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks at the University of Chicago, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, in Chicago. The arrival of Stage 7 is guaranteed if Sanders wins Iowa.

The Hillary Clinton campaign and community leaders in attendance will have the opportunity to discuss what is at stake in this election for Iowans and the communities they represent.

Sanders, though, did raise eyebrows when midway through his opening remarks, he dropped the foreign policy talk and shifted to his bread-and-butter message of income inequality.

“Eight years ago, all over this country people said an African-American becoming president of the United States, you’re nuts, that can’t happen, too much racism in America”, Sanders said during a campaign stop Saturday. Ain’t going to happen.

Bernie Sanders is attracting Americans who are in search of more than a protest vote.

The senator said: “If we have the kind of turnout that I hope we can, then we’re going to win here in Iowa”. “So that’s why the Obama campaign (in 2008) decided that a delegate vote in south-central Iowa was as valuable as a delegate vote in Polk County, so they made a decision to put field organizers throughout the entire state and that did have an impact on the actual count”.

The last thing Clinton can afford now is for Sanders to get a head of steam from Iowa and New Hampshire. “The Democratic Party in SC is about building on the legacy of President Obama”, he added, which many Democrats see in Clinton as the president’s former secretary of state. The single best way to change an election is to change who participates, and our choices about electoral processes – caucuses or primaries – do just that. Booker and Clinton also attended services together Sunday morning at a predominantly black church. She’ll appear at Vernon Middle School in Marion this afternoon for a “Get Out the Caucus” event, which will begin at 1:15 p.m. with doors opening at 11:45 a.m. Clinton will also visit North Liberty and Des Moines today. Sanders has not been endorsed by any of his fellow senators, nor does he have the backing of any prominent Iowa officials.

“One of the most important takeaways is that Bernie Sanders is not Barack Obama”, Sellers said.

And Sanders went to lengths Saturday to compare himself to the insurgent candidate who came out of nowhere to win Iowa in 2008. “That’s what I did as first lady, when I worked with both Democrats and Republicans … and it’s what I did as secretary of state”.

Larry Kilburg, 64, of Bellevue, Iowa, said he planned to caucus for the first time for Sanders. I could sit him so hard he would drop. He was unrealistic. His ideas were pie in the sky. “He did not have the experience that was needed”, Sanders said. Maybe there’s a Clinton campaign t-shirt in that: Don’t overthink it. Just vote Hillary. The question is whether that edge vanishes if Sanders defeats Clinton in the first two contests, a distinct possibility.

Still, Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said he was confident in the “enthusiastic workers and volunteers”.

Sanders said that he is, though, “getting the attention of Wall Street” with his calls to break up big banks and reinstitute a Depression-era law repealed under Bill Clinton that once separated commercial and investment banks.