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Hillary Campaign Gets Stunningly Bad News, Then Makes This Claim…
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is losing ground in two key primary states, but her campaign insists they are not worried.
“No non-incumbent candidate other than Sen. Harkin has gotten more than 50 percent in the [Iowa] caucus — which is why we are working hard to earn every vote,” a Clinton campaign official said in an email response to questions from Fox News.
The latest Quinnipac University poll shows the closeness in the race in Iowa between presumed Democratic frontrunner Clinton and challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. In that poll, Sanders is leading Clinton 41-40 percent in the Hawkeye State.
The Sanders campaign is thrilled with the results from the Iowa polls, according to a spokesman.
“Obviously the campaign is delighted,” Sanders Press Secretary Lilia A. Chacon said in a statement. “People and Iowans are responding to a message based on issues. The more people know about Bernie the more they like him.”
This is yet more disappointing news for the Clinton campaign. Sanders topped Clinton in a New Hampshire poll released in August. The Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll showed that Sanders pulled away with 44 percent support, compared to Clinton’s 37 percent support among voters.
A NBC/Marist poll taken on Sept. 6 indicated that Sanders is enjoying a 9-point lead in New Hampshire over the former Secretary of State.
The latest numbers in New Hampshire show a significant change in support over the summer, according to poll numbers. A July survey by Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald showed Sanders to be at 33 percent, while Clinton held onto 52 percent of support. However, Clinton is still leading in national polls and continues to forge ground in other key primary states like South Carolina and Florida.
The polls come in the middle of an FBI investigation into Clinton’s emails on a private server. The probe, launched in August, seeks to identify deleted emails and has determined that at least some of the emails on the server were listed as classified information.
Former State Department employee Bryan Pagliano, who worked under Clinton when she was Secretary of State, talked to investigators with the House committee looking into the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack. The Sept. 10 meeting was behind closed doors and lasted less than 20 minutes. Investigators believed Pagliano, as an IT professional, had knowledge about Clinton’s email. Pagliano was expected to take the 5th Amendment not to testify and incriminate himself.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/hillary-campaign-gets-stunningly-bad-news-then-makes-this-claim/
