Clinton confronts rival Sanders as Iowa polls tighten

“People will remember that Secretary Clinton has been all over the map on guns, she’s been very conservative on guns, she’s been very liberal on guns”.

She’s also trying to put distance between Sanders and Obama’s push for new gun control laws. The Clinton campaign has either responded – or attacked Sanders first – on Wall Street reform, his ability to win in November, his support for paid family leave and gun control measures.

“There’s a situation developing in Iowa and New Hampshire that could change the course of this election”, Mook wrote in an e-mail, noting that Sanders’s campaign is outspending Clinton in TV ads in both states.

“Maybe it’s time for Sen”. Sanders to stand up and say I got this one wrong.

“Senator Sanders voted with them, and through this morning has been unwilling to join the president and me in saying that this should be repealed”, Clinton said Sunday, on CBS’ “Face the Nation“.

This issue is all Clinton has to try and maneuver to Sanders’ left. She was referring to Sanders’ vote on a bill that would grant immunity for firearms manufacturers when firearms are used in crimes.

“Our major problem has been I am running against a candidate who was perceived to be the inevitable nominee, right?”

The White House defended the policies Friday.

Earnest said Obama hadn’t meant to send any “secret or subtle signal” about his preferred candidate in the Democratic primary. “We do have differences”.

He pointed to recent polls that have showed him leading Republican candidates by a larger margin than Clinton in early voting states. The senator supports Senate legislation that would pay for the more generous benefits by raising the payroll tax on a typical worker by $1.61 per week. But critics said the searches were ill-timed and disruptive for families.

He said he considered it a different situation when “gun manufacturers do know that they’re selling a whole lot of guns in an area that really should not be buying that many guns, that many of those guns are going to other areas, probably for criminal purposes”. Voters in that state will cast the first ballots of the primary race in three weeks.

On the Democratic side, frontrunner Hillary Clinton holds just a three-point lead among likely voters over Bernie Sanders, 48 percent to 45 percent, while Martin O’Malley gets 5 percent.

Sanders, during a town hall meeting in Des Moines, expressed his own support for Obama’s use of executive actions to curb gun violence, suggesting little daylight between him and the president.