Bernie Sanders in Trump’s crosshairs in wake of Iran crisis by AndrewRomano & realchriswilson
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“The difficulty that we have, and I don’t mean to be rude here, is that we have a president who is a pathological liar,” said Sanders on the “Today” show discussing the stated reasoning behind the strike on Soleimani at a Baghdad airport. “So could it be true? I guess it could be. Is it likely to be true? Probably not.”
Story continuesSanders’s Twitter account posted images of the emails and added, “Donald Trump is attacking us because he knows we will beat him in the general election.” The most high-profile endorsement of the week came from former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, who exited the race on Jan. 3 and endorsed Sen. Elizabeth Warren three days later.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is still the leader in endorsements, according to FiveThirtyEight’s tracker. He has the support of nearly three dozen sitting members of Congress and 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry, who served with Biden in the Obama administration and was set to campaign with his former Senate colleague in Iowa this weekend. In November, Biden secured the endorsement of Oliver Davis, the longest-serving African-American on the South Bend Common Council.
To put those numbers in perspective, no previous poll had found Steyer above 6 percent in the former state or 7 percent in the latter. In fact, the last Fox News surveys pegged Steyer’s Nevada support at 5 percent and his South Carolina support at 4 percent . If Fox’s latest data is accurate, then Steyer may have doubled or even tripled his support over the past few months, at least in those two states.
Having TV all to himself appears to have paid off for Steyer, exposing how easy it is for a billionaire candidate to spend his way onto the debate stage — and how persuadable some Democrats still are, even after a year of primary campaigning. The question now is whether Steyer can somehow replicate the effect in Iowa and New Hampshire, or preserve his newly improved standing in Nevada and South Carolina long enough to actually finish ahead of more traditional rivals on primary day.
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