Clinton faces challenge in Iowa caucus reminiscent of 2008

NAYLOR: Yes. It’s a very positive ad. The soundtrack is pretty much entirely the song “America” those of us of a certain age remember from Simon and Garfunkel.

In a Democratic primary that appears to be tightening, Clinton’s campaign has escalated its attacks on Sanders over his perceived inexperience with foreign policy. Marco Rubio of Florida said Cruz “is not who he says he is”, and has flip-flopped on issues including crop insurance and immigration.

With an increasingly combative tone, Hillary Clinton repeatedly criticized her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen.

And this means, Mr. Fallon argued, that Mr. Sanders is the “very caricature Republicans like to put forward”. “Every day, a Republican in some senate or some house race is having to issue a state saying I don’t agree, I do agree, or doing some convoluted dance under their party’s front-runner”, the operative said. “Sanders would be good or bad”, Phillips said, adding that election are “often about contrasts”.

The Clinton who turned up at a campaign rally here Wednesday was Dr. Bill, not Pop-off Bill – notwithstanding a new poll showing Hillary Clinton trailing Bernie Sanders in the state, 33 percent to the Vermont senator’s 60 percent.

But the race for Iowa is going to be anything but easy, Clinton admitted.

“While Sen. Sanders tries to make a case on electability based on meaningless polls, Republicans and their super PACs have made clear (which) candidate they’re actually afraid to face”, Palmieri said in a statement.

With the Iowa caucuses looming on the near horizon, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are not just duking it out with cannonfire about gun control, health care, and slavery reparations, they’re also submitting their “closing arguments” in the form of a couple of new ads that will run in Iowa in the coming weeks.

The two combatants, he said, have “different approaches to try to tackle the same thing”, from income inequality to Wall Street reform to health care to equal pay for women to college affordability to opioid abuse. “I Googled it for them”.

True or false, this has been the prevailing narrative for the duration of this campaign: Sanders is the insurgent outsider and Clinton is the experienced insider. Brian, tell us about this one.

Tad Devine, Sanders’ senior media adviser, said Republicans are engaged in misguided “mischief” that shows their “disconnect with what’s going on with voters”. “The question is, Will that translate into turnout?” This is another example of a Hillary surrogate pressing a point that they ought to leave alone.

It even took African-Americans a long time to commit to Barack Obama – against Clinton – during the 2008 primaries, despite the fact that he would become the first black president and today continues to command near-unanimous support from them.

At Sunday’s debate, Sanders said it was time for the United States to “move as aggressively as we can to normalize relations with Iran, understanding that Iran’s behavior in so many ways in something that we disagree with”.

But, she said, many of her friends are Sanders supporters.