Most notably, Trump’s campaign used an Instagram video to pair Clinton’s 1995 speech on women’s rights in Beijing with photos of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
In NH, Cruz is ahead of Clinton by four points, with Rubio ahead of her by twelve.
The Democratic frontrunner for president said Republicans had repeatedly tried to uncover a scandal in her family, alluding to her husband’s admitted affair and the inquiries into her handling of a personal email server and a 2012 attack in Benghazi while she was secretary of state. “I’m going to draw the distinctions between where I stand and where he stands”, especially on issues like equal pay and the minimum wage. “They can say whatever they want, more power to them”, she said. “Almost the entire Democratic Party has been backing Hillary Clinton among elected officials, and so she goes 0-2, I do think you’re going to see a lot of fingernails being chewed on”.
The sad thing is, I don’t even think it would lose him any votes to say he was wrong, because he was, and because any voter who cares enough to be alienated won’t be impressed by the sliver of ground he’s trying to defend. “These polls go up, they go down”, she said.
The two candidates will have a chance to square off in person in one week, when the fourth Democratic debate is held Sunday January 17 in Charleston, SC. The time for the debate isn’t set, but it will be competing with a pair of National Football League playoff games scheduled for the same day.
“I would urge those voters, the voters all over this country, to take a look at recent polls in which Bernie Sanders is matched with Republican candidates”, Sanders said during an interview on ABC on Sunday. Sanders had the advantage among millennials as a whole, but nonwhite 18- to 35-year-olds were evenly split between Sanders and Clinton. “It didn’t work before, it won’t work again because people are focused on not the past, but the future”.
“There’s no “there” there”, she concluded. “I was very clear about emailing, anything having to do with business to people on their government accounts”, she said.
Until now, Clinton has rarely mentioned Sanders by name at her campaign events, choosing instead to warn voters about the risks of electing a Republican.
“I’ve been quiet for too long, and now with the possibility of [Hillary Clinton] being the Democratic nominee and possibly president, I feel the need to get involved”, she said.
The polls, which both had a margin of error of +/- 4.8 percent, showed that Clinton had 48 percent among likely Iowa caucus-goers, compared to Sanders’ 45 percent and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s 5 percent.