Clinton seeks to cut into Sanders’ New Hampshire advantage

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she knows she’s behind going into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary and doesn’t know if she can win. As I’ve said before, Clinton still seems likely to be the Democratic nominee for President. “I love the New Hampshire primary”.

Of course, Clinton’s New Hampshire victory in 2008 wasn’t enough to propel her to victory over Obama for the nomination.

Clinton, a narrow victor last Monday in the leadoff Iowa caucuses, has said Sanders has a natural advantage in the northeastern state because he represents the neighboring state of Vermont in the Senate, while Sanders has pointed out that Clinton herself came back to defeat then-Illinois Sen.

In a recent poll of S.C. Democratic primary voters, 42 percent of voters under 45 picked Sanders, compared to 50 percent who backed Clinton.

Sanders argued that “the world has changed” and students now need a college degree, not just a high school education, to obtain most jobs in the current economy. Rubio was working to maintain momentum after a close third in the caucuses and rivals such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich were banking on a solid showing Tuesday to propel their campaigns forward – and avoid pressure to quit the race.

None of these endorsers will shift many votes on their own (notwithstanding Franken’s claims of Clinton in Duluth), but it’s a death by a thousand cuts strategy.

“Let everybody who’s ever given a speech to any private group under any circumstances release them”, she said.

Sanders, for his part, declined to join calls – including from his own spokeswoman – for Clinton to release transcripts of her paid speeches to big banks, but he didn’t reject those calls either.

Democratic caucus-goers who cared most about candidates who are “honest and trustworthy” or who “care about people like me” overwhelmingly supported Sanders, according to precinct polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks. Clinton has overwhelming support among Democratic Party leaders, but Sanders foresees staying competitive by drawing new and younger voters into the primary process.

He was introduced by former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, who told voters to choose “George Bush I mean, Jeb Bush”.

The Sanders campaign has said it’s insulting to New Hampshire voters to suggest that they would only support him because he’s from the New England area. I wrote letters to a whole lot of people. “This is an African-American law professor who tried to do the right thing, and he admitted it. He said, ‘I lied about her'”.

“Do you think she should (release the transcripts), and what do you think would be revealed in those transcripts?”

“Hillary Clinton says the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, is immoral, and Congress should approve $200 million in emergency aid for the city grappling with lead-contaminated water”. Clinton played off that mantra and told voters that “we will rise once again to more prosperity”. One called her “shady”, one “a warmonger”, one a captive to Wall St. The most common reaction, though, was faint praise or faint criticism.

The billionaire developer did not specify what he would do to weaken or cancel the sweeping Trans Pacific Partnership between the US and 11 other nations. “If anybody doesn’t know the difference between a contribution of $30 or $40 or a Super PAC which raises millions of dollars from Wall Street then frankly we don’t know what’s going on in politics today”, Sanders responded.