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| Sanders and Clinton tussle as New Hampshire counts down to primary – campaign live | Sanders and Clinton tussle as New Hampshire counts down to primary – campaign live |
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| Is Clinton contesting New Hampshire? An LA Times piece this morning asserts she is not. Bill Clinton, whose 1992 candidacy sparked here, is campaigning in Nevada, which caucuses later this month, instead of in the Granite State. Real Clear Politics polling averages have Bernie Sanders up 16.7 points in New Hampshire, just three days before the primary. | |
| So “she isn’t working the state the way she did in 2008 when she pulled off an upset victory,” report Evan Halper and Michael Memoli in the Times: | |
| While Clinton continued to express hope that a victory is possible in this state, where voters are prone to wild shifts in opinion up until election day, she isn’t working the state the way she did in 2008 when she pulled off an upset victory. By Friday, former President Bill Clinton had already been dispatched to Las Vegas to headline events aimed at organizing voters to turn out for the Nevada caucuses, which are taking on increased importance as a must-win firewall for his wife. The campaign released its first Spanish-language ads Friday, which it will start airing in Nevada. | |
| But Clinton’s rally in Concord this morning, and her events schedule of two get-out-the-vote’s and a town hall on Saturday, feel nothing like a concession. Clinton will be in Henniker this afternoon and in Portsmouth this evening. Traveling with her are the natural duo of Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, and Cory Booker, the US senator from New Jersey | |
| “You need to talk to your friends and neighbors about why this election is important to you, and important to your family,” says Clinton’s warm-up act in Concord. “We just have to hunker down and work really hard for the next three days.” | |
| The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino is in the room with the blog, and catches a little taste of the action on video: | |
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| 5.27pm GMT | |
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| Tom McCarthy | |
| Hello from a Hillary Clinton Get-Out-the-Vote event at Rundlett Middle School in Concord, New Hampshire, where a peppy weekend crowd of a couple hundred people – and counting – is filling a gym for an event set to start in a half hour. | |
| Here was the scene this morning in New Hampshire: | |
| The snow hasn’t slowed the crowd from coming to Concord, where hardy Clintonfans have filled the present space. State senator Dan Feltes is “warming” them up: | |
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| Jonathan Freedland | |
| Surely aware that Tuesday’s vote will be his last stand - his last chance to have an impact on this race - Chris Christie is going negative to make his mark, writes Jonathan Freedland in Bedford, NH. | |
| The New Jersey governor’s stump speech delivered just now in Bedford consisted of a barely-veiled attack on Marco Rubio - the man he clearly deems his biggest rival for the support of relatively moderate Republicans. | |
| Without mentioning Rubio by name, he mocked the role of “first term US senators”, arguing that they lack the executive experience essential for the role of the presidency - experience that governors like him have in spades. | |
| “The presidency is not a place for on the job training”, Christie said, adding there was “no owner’s manual” left in the drawer of the desk of the Oval Office. | |
| Implicitly comparing Rubio to Barack Obama, he said the presidency should not be “handed to someone who can read a teleprompter better than anyone else.” He went on to liken the life of a US senator to that of a child at grade school - devoid of any real responsibility. | |
| All that was missing was a repeat of the description Christie offered earlier this week of Rubio as “the boy in the bubble” , unable to function outside the comfort zone of scripted remarks. | |
| Playing to the stereotype of the pugnacious New Jersey pol, Christie promised he “would leave nothing behind” during the hand to hand combat of tonight’s TV debate of Republican candidates. | |
| But he couldn’t go without delivering a couple of swipes at Donald Trump too. “This job cannot go to an entertainer in chief. We need a commander in chief.” | |
| “Showtime is over,” he said. “It’s game time. It’s time to pick a president.” | |
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| 5.02pm GMT | |
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| Rupert Murdoch, the media owner, says Hillary Clinton’s candidacy is sinking and Democrats wish John Kerry would step in, so it must be true. | |
| Watch Hillary's candidacy sink and sink. Nobody buying and more big trouble coming on emails. Dems looking for replacement. John Kerry? | |
| 4.51pm GMT | |
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| Sanders: I feel like a rock star | |
| Bernie Sanders is speaking at Franklin Pierce University in southern New Hampshire, a school named after our 14th and perhaps most obscure president. A large crowd of young people have gathered to hear him speak. | |
| He’s doing his stump speech standards – the price gouging and chaos of the American healthcare system, the broken criminal justice system, etc. He’s speaking about climate change at the moment, saying it’ll cause more floods, drought, international conflict. | |
| “What we’re doing to the oceans already is tragic,” he says. We don’t have a single Republican candidate who’s willing to stand up on the issue, he adds, because of the contributions they receive from the Koch brothers and other fossil fuel interests. | |
| Somebody shouts: “We have you!” | |
| Sanders gets into his riff on Wall Street, whose executives spent “billions of dollars [on lobbying] to say we want to get the government off our backs”. | |
| After they got the government off of their backs, it turned out that their operations were basically fraudulent. That they were selling subprime mortgage practices that were worthless. That Wall Street teetered on the edge of collapse. You and your parents bailed them out. | |
| He notes that two Goldman Sachs executives have become secretaries of the Treasury under Republican and Democratic candidates, and that dozens of executives have gone “in government and do the bidding of Wall Street”. | |
| But he comes around to say that he wants to even the teams, and get the people represented properly in Washington again. He’s getting angry. | |
| He takes off his jacket and the crowd goes wild. | |
| “I feel like a rock and roll star,” he laughs. “Nothing more is coming off, that’s it.” | |
| “Don’t accept reality just because it’s out there,” he urges the crowd. “Ask why. When you see somebody homeless sleeping out in the street, don’t accept that as normal. It is not normal.” | |
| Related: Republicans reject climate change fears despite rebukes from scientists | |
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| 4.30pm GMT | 4.30pm GMT |
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| Edward Helmore | Edward Helmore |
| Hillary Clinton has not struggled to find income in the years since she left the White House and State Department. Edward Helmore reports on the finances of the former secretary of state. | |
| Bill and Hillary Clinton have made more than $153m from paid speeches over the last 15 years, a CNN study has found, including at least $7.7m from 39 speeches to Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs, UBS and Bank of America. | Bill and Hillary Clinton have made more than $153m from paid speeches over the last 15 years, a CNN study has found, including at least $7.7m from 39 speeches to Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs, UBS and Bank of America. |
| The study found that between 2001 and the formal announcement of Hillary Clinton’s campaign last May, the couple gave 729 speeches at an average of $210,795 each. Hillary Clinton, who is facing campaign-trail scrutiny over her ties to Wall Street, earned more than $1.8m for at least eight speeches to large financial institutions, the study found. | The study found that between 2001 and the formal announcement of Hillary Clinton’s campaign last May, the couple gave 729 speeches at an average of $210,795 each. Hillary Clinton, who is facing campaign-trail scrutiny over her ties to Wall Street, earned more than $1.8m for at least eight speeches to large financial institutions, the study found. |
| Claims by Bernie Sanders that Clinton is an establishment politician who “throughout one’s life raised a whole lot of money from the drug companies and other special interests” provoked a sharp response during this week’s debate, when Clinton accused the Vermont senator of attacking her “by innuendo, by insinuation”. | Claims by Bernie Sanders that Clinton is an establishment politician who “throughout one’s life raised a whole lot of money from the drug companies and other special interests” provoked a sharp response during this week’s debate, when Clinton accused the Vermont senator of attacking her “by innuendo, by insinuation”. |
| “You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation I ever received,” Clinton said. | “You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation I ever received,” Clinton said. |
| Her campaign has said it is considering releasing the text of speeches she gave to Wall Street firms. | Her campaign has said it is considering releasing the text of speeches she gave to Wall Street firms. |
| Related: Clinton puts Sanders on the defensive in heated Democrat debate | Related: Clinton puts Sanders on the defensive in heated Democrat debate |
| According to CNN, Bill Clinton made the majority of the speeches, 637, earning $132m; his wife earned more than $21m from 92 speeches. | According to CNN, Bill Clinton made the majority of the speeches, 637, earning $132m; his wife earned more than $21m from 92 speeches. |
| In 2013, the study found, Hillary Clinton made $775,000 from three speeches to Goldman Sachs and $225,000 each from UBS, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank. | In 2013, the study found, Hillary Clinton made $775,000 from three speeches to Goldman Sachs and $225,000 each from UBS, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank. |
| The analysis show a steady increase in the couple’s billing. In 2004, Bill Clinton was charging $125,000 per engagement. In 2014, for a speech to Bank of America/Merrill Lynch in London, his fee was $500,000. | The analysis show a steady increase in the couple’s billing. In 2004, Bill Clinton was charging $125,000 per engagement. In 2014, for a speech to Bank of America/Merrill Lynch in London, his fee was $500,000. |
| Hillary Clinton hit the big bank speaking circuit in 2013, after leaving the State Department. She spoke then at $225,000 per engagement. In 2014, her fee was $260,000 – a 15% rise. | Hillary Clinton hit the big bank speaking circuit in 2013, after leaving the State Department. She spoke then at $225,000 per engagement. In 2014, her fee was $260,000 – a 15% rise. |
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| The weird week in review: losers, tantrums, “say it to my face,” sticker face, Cruz counrty [sic], evasive children, doppelänger Sanders and more. | The weird week in review: losers, tantrums, “say it to my face,” sticker face, Cruz counrty [sic], evasive children, doppelänger Sanders and more. |
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| Lauren Gambino | Lauren Gambino |
| Thirty-five but still best known as a White House kid, Chelsea Clinton is on the trail for her mother. But maybe the excitement surrounding her mom’s opponent is getting to her … Lauren Gambino drops a line from New Hampshire. | Thirty-five but still best known as a White House kid, Chelsea Clinton is on the trail for her mother. But maybe the excitement surrounding her mom’s opponent is getting to her … Lauren Gambino drops a line from New Hampshire. |
| Chelsea Clinton, the former and possibly future first daughter of the United States, is the product of two high-powered politicians whose address was once 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. She has worked for NBC, her family’s foundation, and had media training for years. But all the preparation in the world can’t always prevent slip. | Chelsea Clinton, the former and possibly future first daughter of the United States, is the product of two high-powered politicians whose address was once 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. She has worked for NBC, her family’s foundation, and had media training for years. But all the preparation in the world can’t always prevent slip. |
| Clinton has raised eyebrows as of late for her sharp attacks against the only man standing between her mother and the Democratic nomination: Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. But on the campaign trail in Minnesota this week, however, a slip of the tongue accidentally paid him a compliment. | Clinton has raised eyebrows as of late for her sharp attacks against the only man standing between her mother and the Democratic nomination: Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. But on the campaign trail in Minnesota this week, however, a slip of the tongue accidentally paid him a compliment. |
| Criticizing Sanders for his vote on a bill granting legal immunity to the gun industry, Clinton referred to her mom’s rival as “President Sanders”. | Criticizing Sanders for his vote on a bill granting legal immunity to the gun industry, Clinton referred to her mom’s rival as “President Sanders”. |
| The media training kicked in immediately: “Senator Sanders excuse me, I hope not President Sanders!” The crowd laughed, and Clinton carried on. | The media training kicked in immediately: “Senator Sanders excuse me, I hope not President Sanders!” The crowd laughed, and Clinton carried on. |
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| at 3.28pm GMT | at 3.28pm GMT |
| 2.47pm GMT | 2.47pm GMT |
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| Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the electoral battle for New Hampshire, 2016 edition, three days out from the first-in-the-nation primary. With Iowa settled (more or less) in a victory for Republican Ted Cruz and a de facto tie for Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, New Hampshire has become a high-stakes fight for every candidate in the field. | Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the electoral battle for New Hampshire, 2016 edition, three days out from the first-in-the-nation primary. With Iowa settled (more or less) in a victory for Republican Ted Cruz and a de facto tie for Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, New Hampshire has become a high-stakes fight for every candidate in the field. |
| For some, the Granite State is their last and only hope. Republicans Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Chris Christie have poured nearly all their time and money into New Hampshire in the hopes that its voters, more moderate than the evangelical base of Iowa, will turn the party away from the religious fervor of Cruz and “everything is terrible” rhetoric of Donald Trump. | For some, the Granite State is their last and only hope. Republicans Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Chris Christie have poured nearly all their time and money into New Hampshire in the hopes that its voters, more moderate than the evangelical base of Iowa, will turn the party away from the religious fervor of Cruz and “everything is terrible” rhetoric of Donald Trump. |
| But polls put Trump on top by a healthy margin of more than 15 points, and Marco Rubio is nudging himself into position as the best-placed alternative to both the unpredictable billionaire and the much-loathed senator from Texas. | But polls put Trump on top by a healthy margin of more than 15 points, and Marco Rubio is nudging himself into position as the best-placed alternative to both the unpredictable billionaire and the much-loathed senator from Texas. |
| Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, and Jim Gilmore are still there, too. | Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, and Jim Gilmore are still there, too. |
| Related: Happy Gilmore: on the trail – and at the gun range – with the unknown candidate | Related: Happy Gilmore: on the trail – and at the gun range – with the unknown candidate |
| Democrats also face what could be the first truly decisive vote in the 2016 election. Clinton beat Sanders in Iowa by a tiny margin, and caucus night was a chaotic, poorly managed affair. The race turned emotional and sharp on Thursday, in the first debate that pit the two candidates against each other. | Democrats also face what could be the first truly decisive vote in the 2016 election. Clinton beat Sanders in Iowa by a tiny margin, and caucus night was a chaotic, poorly managed affair. The race turned emotional and sharp on Thursday, in the first debate that pit the two candidates against each other. |
| Despite her enormous campaign resources, her many allies and her healthy national lead in the polls, Clinton is something of an underdog in New Hampshire. Sanders has a 21-point lead there, according to averages, and is slowly approaching her poll numbers nationally. Democrats have found themselves divided along similar lines as Republicans (age, wealth, race and more), and while Clinton has racked up endorsements Sanders continues to surprise her, winning over a former head of the NAACP and turning out large numbers of young voters. | Despite her enormous campaign resources, her many allies and her healthy national lead in the polls, Clinton is something of an underdog in New Hampshire. Sanders has a 21-point lead there, according to averages, and is slowly approaching her poll numbers nationally. Democrats have found themselves divided along similar lines as Republicans (age, wealth, race and more), and while Clinton has racked up endorsements Sanders continues to surprise her, winning over a former head of the NAACP and turning out large numbers of young voters. |
| So stick with us through the day for everything from the trail. From the trail, we’ve got DC bureau chief Dan Roberts, national affairs correspondent Tom McCarthy, national reporter Lauren Gambino, political reporters Ben Jacobs and Sabrina Siddiqui, and Adam Gabbatt, who just went shooting with the candidate that America forgot. | So stick with us through the day for everything from the trail. From the trail, we’ve got DC bureau chief Dan Roberts, national affairs correspondent Tom McCarthy, national reporter Lauren Gambino, political reporters Ben Jacobs and Sabrina Siddiqui, and Adam Gabbatt, who just went shooting with the candidate that America forgot. |
| There’ll also be comment and analysis, eg: a look at Clinton from Jill Abramson. | There’ll also be comment and analysis, eg: a look at Clinton from Jill Abramson. |
| Related: Hillary Clinton is at her best when she's counted out, campaigning her heart out | Related: Hillary Clinton is at her best when she's counted out, campaigning her heart out |