Clinton responded by saying she is proud of the 1.5 million donations her campaign has received, and noted the Super PAC backing her candidacy is the same that supported President Obama.
That means Sanders managed to tie but not beat Clinton in the total delegate count even though he beat Clinton in the popular vote by 22 percent.
Clinton draws attention to Bernard Sanders’ general aversion on the campaign trail to talking support for LGBT rights, although that have may changed recently with his remarks at the New Hampshire Democratic Party dinner and a new gay-inclusive campaign ad.
“I think I favor Hilary over Bernie [Sanders]”, said Huntsville resident Gabriel France.
The exchange underscored the degree to which Obama’s legacy has become tug-of-war between Clinton and Sanders as the Democratic race winds into Nevada and SC, where minority voters play a pivotal role. But, as Clinton takes her message beyond the two early voting states, she’s giving yet another strategy a shot – now casting her opponent as a Marco Rubio-esque robot who can only engage on one-issue, and as anti-President Obama.
The poll surveyed 400 likely S.C. Democratic primary voters on Friday and Saturday.
The former secretary of State has won public support from half of South Carolina’s six superdelegates and three of Nevada’s eight superdelegates. “Look, she is prepared, she is ready”.
“You can run a campaign without a voter file”, Ethan Roeder, data director of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, told Reuters.
“We need a whole lot of work to make sure that we are providing education, jobs for our kids, rather than jails and incarceration”, he said.
Sanders had just scored a resounding victory over Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary when his camp released a new ad on the power of standing together. The ad is a mashup of brief and selectively edited Clinton and Trump comments, combined in a way to make it seem the two agree on immigration policy – including Trump’s call to build a massive wall along the border with Mexico. Sanders said the problem wasn’t confined to race but investments in poor communities were “long overdue”.
“I do have to congratulate this year’s Super Bowl champions, the Denver Broncos”, Clinton told the crowd. Her implication was clear: Sanders is a one-issue candidate, driven exclusively by income inequality and what he sees as a rigged financial system. “It will not surprise you to hear me say that I was deeply honored when he asked me to be secretary of state”.