Sanders to release letter from his doctor before Iowa caucuses

When it comes to the Democratic race for the White House, most sources and polls are pointing to Hillary Clinton as the front-runner, but Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders still has a lot to say.

They have asked her advisers about the strength of the campaign’s data modeling and turnout assumptions in Iowa, given that her 2008 campaign’s predictions were so inaccurate. Aides to Hillary Clinton cast the decision as a way to soften his gun position the day before Sunday’s fourth Democratic debate.

Though Clinton is clearly positioning herself as the more pragmatic candidate who could work with Republicans to pass legislation, most voters and politicians (Republicans included) have no expectation that the next president will be able to get any more done than President Obama has with the Congress of the last eight years.

There was a time when Democrats fretted about Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign becoming a coronation.

Bill Clinton simply is not wielding that kind of influence – good or bad – over voters so far this year, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Clinton has been criticizing Sanders’s vote for the 2005 bill since October, but her criticisms-and his desire to shore up his credibility with on an issue that resonates with many Democratic primary voters-gained new urgency as Sanders gained on Clinton in the polls.

In September, Brock’s group began circulating emails comparing Sanders to Hugo Chavez, the late Venezuelan dictator, and to Jeremy Corbyn, the radical leftist leader of U.K.’s Labour Party.

Over the past several months, Sanders has repeatedly said he’d revisit his 2005 vote for the PLCAA, which protects gun manufacturers from most lawsuits created to hold them liable for gun deaths.

It’s make or break time, with a little more than two weeks to go before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.

Clinton criticized Sanders for his opposition to bills backed by supporters of gun control.

Clinton’s campaign team and her allies have grown increasingly concerned with the surprising grassroots challenge posed by Sanders.

Instead Clinton, who entered the race as the prohibitive favorite, played it safe, opting for as few debates as possible, scheduled at times when viewership was likely to be low, like a Sunday on a long holiday weekend.

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So Clinton is now faced with the possibility that she could lose both of the first two states to vote – something that would be hugely embarrassing for the supposedly inevitable Democratic nominee.

And while she is known for connecting well with people in small settings, she has not shown the same winning touch as consistently at rallies or in television interviews, they said.

It isn’t just in the vital states of Iowa and New Hampshire where Clinton’s lead is narrowing – polls are showing Sanders gaining ground nationally.

“No one knows who the hell Bernie Sanders is”, said New York Rep. Charlie Rangel, an African-American Clinton backer who attended a dinner Saturday night for South Carolina Democrats. Bernie Sanders for the first time.

And while Biden said Democrats had a slate of “great candidates” running for president, he suggested Clinton was a newcomer to issues like the growing gap between rich and poor. Clinton made similar comments on CNN’s State Of The Union. Barack Obama came from behind to defeat Clinton, who was heavily favored to win at the outset of the race.