Post by pavel on Jan 19, 2016 16:50:18 GMT -6
FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders sought to chip away at one of rival Hillary Clinton's chief arguments against him Tuesday, saying that the enthusiasm surrounding his White House bid puts him in the strongest position to increase voter turnout and defeat a Republican in the November election.
Opening a four-stop swing through Iowa, Sanders also predicted a "very close" race with Clinton in the state's lead-off caucus on Feb. 1.
"Today the inevitable candidate doesn't look quite so inevitable as she did 8 1/2 months ago," Sanders said during a town hall meeting on a frigid morning in Fort Dodge.
Clinton's campaign, seeking to blunt Sanders' momentum, refuted the senator's electability assertion. The campaign pointed to recent supportive comments about Sanders from Republican Party leaders as an indication that the GOP believes he would be easier to defeat in November than Clinton.
Read more: bigstory.ap.org/article/1337abedaed64fe59e48a73d114360cd/sanders-seeks-build-burst-momentum-iowa
Opening a four-stop swing through Iowa, Sanders also predicted a "very close" race with Clinton in the state's lead-off caucus on Feb. 1.
"Today the inevitable candidate doesn't look quite so inevitable as she did 8 1/2 months ago," Sanders said during a town hall meeting on a frigid morning in Fort Dodge.
Clinton's campaign, seeking to blunt Sanders' momentum, refuted the senator's electability assertion. The campaign pointed to recent supportive comments about Sanders from Republican Party leaders as an indication that the GOP believes he would be easier to defeat in November than Clinton.
Read more: bigstory.ap.org/article/1337abedaed64fe59e48a73d114360cd/sanders-seeks-build-burst-momentum-iowa