Clinton ups attacks on Sanders in final days of campaign

“Sen. Sanders doesn’t talk very much about foreign policy”.

“As president, I will defend this nation but I will do it responsibly”, Sanders says in the ad.

Sanders, meanwhile, has opened up an eight-point lead over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, leading her in Iowa 51 percent to 43 percent among likely Democratic presidential caucus-goers.

But the former secretary of state says her campaign is stronger this time around.

Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, refrained from making direct new attacks on Clinton Thursday, hoping that voters will be turned off by her negativity. Bernie Sanders over the issue of foreign policy, attempting to depict him as a novice on the issue. “He suggested we invite Iranian troops into Syria”, she said.

Another 65.8% said they do not plan to see the newly released movie critical of Clinton’s role in the attack on the US embassy in Libya, titled 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.

Both candidates are viewed favorably by most Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, which hold the first two presidential nominating contests in early February.

In December, Clinton led Sanders in the Hawkeye State by 18 points in CNN/ORC’s polling, 54% to 36%. “He later was forced to apologize for his lies about her”, Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs told the AP.

Cavuto said that many Democratic voters view Sanders in the mold of George McGovern, the far-left 1972 Democratic nominee who appealed to the party’s base but was routed by President Richard Nixon in the general election.

Attacking Bernie Sanders’ health care plans didn’t seem to work, so now Hillary Clinton is questioning his foreign policy chops. “We’re on a home-field disadvantage here”, Clinton said.

Recent polls are showing Sanders ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire and Iowa. At a rally on Thursday, she said that she was “not interested in ideas that sound good on paper but will never make it in the real world”.

“We need someone in the White House who understands that NARAL and Planned Parenthood aren’t part of the establishment”, she said at the dinner, hosted by NARAL Pro-Choice America and organized to commemorate the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. “After all, Senator Sanders did come out against it”.

She said people “who are so adamantly opposed” to abortion rights “have no regard for what women’s lives are like”.

In neither the debate nor the interview did Clinton note that her husband, Bill Clinton, signed the legislation into law.