In a debate last month, Clinton said she would turn to her husband for economic advice.
But the Charleston backdrop also is significant.
Sunday’s debate is in the city where a 21-year-old white man shot and killed nine people attending a prayer service at an African-American church last summer.
Clinton is expected to step up her attacks on Sanders as too soft on gun restrictions, particularly given the site of the debate in Charleston, South Carolina. Given her many advantages, like rich donors and widespread support from Democratic Party elites, she is also surprised Sanders’ fund-raising has rivaled hers and that her experience – along with her potential to make history as the first woman president – has not galvanized more voters.
Clinton is not under investigation by the bureau, and is not the subject of any criminal investigation, but her use of the private server – instead of a more deeply encrypted government account – set off what’s known as security referral, or inquiry into the location of certain pieces of classified information. But they make up more than half of South Carolina’s Democratic voters.
Hillary Clinton’s taking credit for helping get worldwide sanctions in place that eventually led to the Iran nuclear weapons deal. And the former Democratic president may not become the albatross that Republican candidate Donald Trump expects, either.
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll on Sunday showed Clinton leading Sanders 59% to 34%, with the third candidate in the race, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley at 2%.
So tonight is a big moment for Sanders, his last chance to go toe-to-toe with Clinton before the voting begins.
Polls now show Sanders with a comfortable lead in New Hampshire.
The Sanders campaign – with more than 50 paid S.C. staffers and offices across the state – says its volunteers have knocked on more than 165,000 doors statewide and attempted to reach 500,000 voters, roughly the number of ballots cast in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary
“The Republicans are not our enemies and the other Democrats are certainly not”, said Mr. Clinton in the final minute of his Coralville address.
He is ahead in the polls in New Hampshire and surging ahead in Iowa – and, unlike Republican polls, his popularity is not a result of ridiculous name-calling and/or mudslinging.
The former Secretary of State is backed by 42 percent of Democratic voters, while the Vermont senator has 40 percent of the voters’ support. NBC’s Perry Bacon puts it well: It’s a contest between the dreamers (Sanders and his supporters) and the doers (Clinton and her supporters). That, at least, would extend some suspense through the SC primary.
“Right now we are at a crucial point, behind in Iowa within the margin of error”, Hunt said. Barack Obama came from behind to defeat Clinton, who was heavily favored to win at the outset of the race.
“I don’t know anybody in the whole wide world who thinks Democrats are going to win the entire House back in 2016 and get 60 votes in the Senate”, he said. He’s tried to tie Clinton to big financial institutions, and Clinton has struggled in defending those ties, as Sanders has labeled her the “status quo”.
“We haven’t encountered hostility as much as stonewalling”, Hunt said of his time in New Hampshire. The race between Clinton and Sanders has tightened significantly in those two key states and each side has intensified attacks against the other.
“She can’t be president if you don’t nominate her. And if you do nominate her, I don’t think they can stop her from becoming president”, Bill Clinton said.
The new approach carries risks.
The Democratic presidential candidates will square off in a live televised debate Sunday night, just two weeks before the first vote in the Democratic contest is held at the Iowa Caucuses.
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