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Rubio tries to recover from debate disaster as Trump woos New Hampshire – campaign live Rubio tries to recover from debate disaster as Trump woos New Hampshire – campaign live
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Back in real time, Tapper introduces Hillary Clinton, who the camera suddenly shows is sitting right next to the CNN host.
They talk about Flint, Michigan, whose residents have been suffering with lead-tainted water for nearly two years. CNN is going to host a debate there, and Clinton is going to visit the city later today.
Tapper gets to the campaign. Can Clinton win in New Hampshire, where Sanders has such a huge lead?
I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m just going to work as hard as I can. I love the New Hampshire primary because the interaction you have with voters in every setting is so rewarding.
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2.33pm GMT
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Finally Tapper asks Sanders the same thing he asked Trump: has the campaign changed you?
“It really has, in the sense that I perceive more than ever how far removed the Congress is,” Sanders says. “And you know I’m in the Senate, and the establishment media is, from where everybody else is.”
He recalls a campaign stop in Iowa, “a small town, a woman gets up and she’s trying to make it on $10,000 a year … she talks about the pain, the embarrassment of trying to make it on $10,000 a year.”
Then he remembers two elderly Iowans who came up to him at an event: “They’re saying we want to live long enough to come out and caucus for you. What do you think that does?”
He says he was moved.
2.31pm GMT
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Sanders criticizes Clinton ally and 'Bernie bros'
“I happen to like Hillary Clinton,” Sanders says, “but I am astounded by some of the people she is hiring, including David Brock.”
Brock “used to be a rightwing guy … attacking people like Anita Hill … he admitted, he said I lied about it. This is the guy who Hillary Clinton is making the head of her Super Pac?”
NB: campaigns are forbidden by law from cooperating with Super Pacs. In practice it’s murky.
I just don’t understand where teh Clinton people are coming from hiring somebody like that. Every day they’re attacking us.
What about “Bernie bros”, Tapper asks Sanders.
“We don’t want that crap,” the senator says without hesitation. “Anyone who’s supporting me and doing sexist things, we don’t want them. We don’t want them. That is not what this campaign is about.”
2.31pm GMT
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Martin Pengelly
We’ve got, of course, a lot of 2016 reading for you today. The following is from Suzanne McGee, our personal finance columnist, who writes…
Congratulations, Lloyd Blankfein, on giving the presidential bid by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders a big boost! Oh, that wasn’t what you meant to do? Whoops …
It’s not a bad intro, at the end of a week of back and forth over Hillary Clinton’s ties, or otherwise, to Wall Street.
More from Suzanne:
[The Goldman Sachs CEO], speaking to CNBC’s Squawk Box, didn’t endorse Clinton outright – that might have been the kiss of death. It’s just that any additional kind of linkage between Wall Street and Clinton could prove another nail in the coffin in the latter’s attempts to woo millennials at a critical moment in her campaign…
You can read Suzanne’s full analysis here:
Related: Sanders' sway over millennials is more of a 'dangerous moment' for Clinton
2.27pm GMT
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Sanders has no opinion at all about whether Clinton releases the transcripts of her speeches to Wall Street banks, including Goldman Sachs.
During the last Democratic debate a moderator asked her whether she would release the text of those speeches, many of which earned her hundreds of thousands of dollars after she left the State Department in 2012.
Asked about why his campaign sent out an excerpt of a book by senator Elizabeth Warren, who once accused Clinton of voting according to Wall Street’s influence, Sanders demurs. He says that’s what Warren thinks, and suggests that it’s up for voters to make up their minds about it.
He adds that, “for the record”, there’ve been a lot more attacks on him than his campaign has made. During the last debate Clinton accused Sanders’ campaign of “innuendo” and an “artful smear” regarding her knotty history with Wall Street.
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Moving on to Hillary Clinton’s ties to Wall Street, Sanders is quick to say that he’s only stated a fact about her contributions and is letting people – her campaign included – draw conclusions from there.
“What I said is that she has a Super Pac, and she recently, according to her [campaign filings] received $15m from Wall Street.”
He talks about corruption and campaign finance, linking Republicans’ contributions from fossil fuel interests to their aversion to discussing climate change.
“I do not have a Super Pac, Jake. I do not want one, I do not want their money.”
Why is it that we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs … has 1300 lobbyists and contributes a lot in campaign contributions?
“Of course I do,” Tapper says.
Sanders stumps a little. “Big money controls what goes on in Washington, every American understands that,” he says. “They just want to have fun and contribute that money? But that is different than saying this candidate took money and voted this way, that is not what I’m saying.”
2.21pm GMT
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We’re on to Bernie Sanders, who met up with Tapper for an interview filmed Saturday. He asks the senator from Vermont about whether he ever thought Larry David and he had anything in common.
Sanders: “I admired him, I loved his television show, but no, I did not make the connection. … He plays me a little bit better than I play me.”
Tapper asks about Sanders’ 20-point lead in New Hampshire, per poll averages.
Sanders: “Don’t make me nervous, and don’t jinx me! … We’re working really hard.”
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Have you learned anything from the trail, Mr Trump?
I’ll tell you what I have learned, the people in this counrty are amazing, they’re great. … The people that are with me are with me. They’re with me through thick and thin. But the people of our country are great people.
He says he’s sad that products like those of Apple are made in China. “We’re gonna bring companies and we’re gonna bring jobs, like Apple, back here, and we’re gonna do it big league.”
2.14pm GMT
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Tapper: Are you surprised that your’e competing with Bernie Sanders for independent voters?
Trump says he and Sanders agree on trade deals with Asia and Central and South America, which the billionaire says are terrible for the US.
The difference is I’m going to do something about it. I’m going to renegotiate those deals and make them good. And believe me they will be good. … Bernie won’t be able to do anything, it’s not his thing.”
Trump says he’s got the Midas touch.
“I’ll create absolute gold out of those deals, whereas right now we’re losing billions, even tens of billions,” he says. “I will create gold.”
2.12pm GMT
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“Hey, look, the theme is Make America Great Again,” Trump tells CNN. He talks about voters.
“They want to see intelligence, they want to see good deals, not bad deals … We don’t win on trade, we don’t win on war, we don’t win on Isis … We’re going to start winning again.”
Tapper asks about what kind of campaign operations Trump has – the ballyhooed “ground game” of phone calls, mailed papers, targeting the likeliest voters with data, etc.
“I didn’t know the term ground game too much” before Iowa, Trump says. “We had a ground game, maybe not the greatest ground game.”
He repeats: “My second place finish which again I say was first place.”
2.08pm GMT
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Tapper asks about how Trump would bring back waterboarding when it’s been deemed illegal. Trump said he’d bring back the torture method and “worse” during the debate last night.
Trump says that he’d get a law passed, no problem. He says what’s more important is that terrorists are “cutting off the heads of Christians”, so “beyond waterboarding is fine with me.”
Tapper: do you need to win New Hampshire after your loss in Iowa?
“That wasn’t a loss, I came in second and I only came in second because Cruz took a lot of votes from Carson,” Trump says, alluding to calls made by Ted Cruz’s campaign that falsely told voters Ben Carson had dropped out of the race. Carson and Cruz are competing largely for the same bloc of very religious, largely evangelical voters.
“I came in second out of the original 17 candidates, I don’t consider that a loss,” Trump says.
2.06pm GMT
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First up this Sunday morning we’ve got Donald Trump on CNN’s State of the Union. Host Jake Tapper is extremely excited because he’s got five candidates on the show and no commercials.
Back to Trump. Tapper asks about Rubio’s performance.
‘Well I don’t want to criticize anybody,” Trump says. “After four times that was a lot [of repetition], so that was a little bit, but, you know, I’m not one to comment on somebody else’s performance.”
Tapper says Trump seems mellow.
“Well I dunno,” Trump says. “ I’m trying to be a nice person, I am a nice person. I’ve had good relationships with people.”
Politics is an interesting thing. I’ve been doing this for seven months and I’m having a lot of fun doing it but much more importantly, you know, my theme is Make America Great Again,”
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Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of the final sprint for New Hampshire on the marathon race that is the 2016 campaign trail.Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of the final sprint for New Hampshire on the marathon race that is the 2016 campaign trail.
It’s the morning after the last debate before New Hampshirites vote, in this case yet another contest between Republicans. The evening had an ignominious start: broadcaster ABC muffed up its introductions of the candidates, and an unfortunate end for Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida who has been gathering the scattered voters of his rivals into the semblance of a conservative coalition.It’s the morning after the last debate before New Hampshirites vote, in this case yet another contest between Republicans. The evening had an ignominious start: broadcaster ABC muffed up its introductions of the candidates, and an unfortunate end for Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida who has been gathering the scattered voters of his rivals into the semblance of a conservative coalition.
Related: Marco Rubio's broken record blunder costs him New Hampshire debateRelated: Marco Rubio's broken record blunder costs him New Hampshire debate
But Rubio recited scripted talking points over and over during the debate, and was ridiculed by Chris Christie and others for his “scripted” lines and lack of experience. Will voters see him as the robotic, “Republican Obama” that his enemies say he is? Or will they care that Donald Trump, the frontrunner in the state, promised to bring back things worse than waterboarding if elected to the White House?But Rubio recited scripted talking points over and over during the debate, and was ridiculed by Chris Christie and others for his “scripted” lines and lack of experience. Will voters see him as the robotic, “Republican Obama” that his enemies say he is? Or will they care that Donald Trump, the frontrunner in the state, promised to bring back things worse than waterboarding if elected to the White House?
We’ll get the first hints of it today, with a team on the trail and a healthy dose of skepticism for the candidates who try to recover and/or capitalize on the morning talk shows.We’ll get the first hints of it today, with a team on the trail and a healthy dose of skepticism for the candidates who try to recover and/or capitalize on the morning talk shows.
There’s Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts, national affairs correspondent Tom McCarthy, political reporters Sabrina Siddiqui and Ben Jacobs and official US 2016 election campaign selfie correspondent Adam Gabbatt. And more.There’s Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts, national affairs correspondent Tom McCarthy, political reporters Sabrina Siddiqui and Ben Jacobs and official US 2016 election campaign selfie correspondent Adam Gabbatt. And more.
On the Democratic side of the ledger, Saturday night saw Bernie Sanders, the insurgent eating up the percentage points behind Hillary Clinton nationally – and leading handily in New Hampshire – appear on Saturday Night Live. He did so with the comedian many believe is either actually him, or his doppelgänger: Larry David.On the Democratic side of the ledger, Saturday night saw Bernie Sanders, the insurgent eating up the percentage points behind Hillary Clinton nationally – and leading handily in New Hampshire – appear on Saturday Night Live. He did so with the comedian many believe is either actually him, or his doppelgänger: Larry David.
Guardian US live editor Paul Owen’s take on that epochal event is here, and video below.Guardian US live editor Paul Owen’s take on that epochal event is here, and video below.