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Clinton and Sanders Step Up Attacks

January 12, 2016 at 6:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments

“Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders don’t differ much on core Democratic issues, but with the Iowa caucuses three weeks away both are intensifying their attacks to a level not yet seen during a pillow-fight 2015,” Politico reports.

“Clinton and Sanders, locked in a too-close-to-call contest, crisscrossed a hard-frozen state telling supporters how very much they respected and liked each other— all the while hammering away on differences that seem minuscule compared with the bitter arguments that have riven the GOP field.”

The New York Times reports that Iowa Democrats “are displaying far less passion” for Clinton than for Sanders “three weeks before the presidential caucuses, creating anxiety inside the Clinton campaign as she scrambles to energize supporters and to court wavering voters.”

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