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U.S. NEWSThursday 21 January 2016
For Sanders, Iowa is chance to turn revolution into reality
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks to members of the media
after a campaign stop at U.M.B.A. Hall in Pottawattamie, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016.
The Associated Press
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) —
With less than two weeks
until voting begins, the
74-year-old self-described
democratic socialist Ber-
nie Sanders could win both
Iowa and New Hampshire,
a once unthinkable out-
come in a primary cam-
paign that was supposed
to be tailor-made for Hillary
Palin’s endorsement of Trump a boost as Iowa looms
JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
AMES, Iowa (AP) — The
endorsement of conserva-
tive Republican firebrand
Sarah Palin in the increas-
ingly intense 2016 presiden-
tial race is giving billionaire 2012 Senate race and said
businessman Donald Trump
a boost against Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz less than two
weeks before Iowa’s kick-
off caucuses.
“This is going to be so much
fun,” the 2008 vice presi-
dential candidate told a
Trump rally Tuesday.
Trump and Cruz are bat-
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Clinton.
“Today the inevitable can-
didate doesn’t look quite
so inevitable,” Sanders told
voters Tuesday.
The Vermont senator’s
down-to-business demean-
or on the campaign trail
has been met with youthful
enthusiasm during his unex-
pected rise in the Demo-
cratic race for president.
tling for the lead in Iowa
ahead of the Feb. 1 cau-
cuses there.
“We’re almost at the finish
line,” Trump said Wednes-
day.
Palin endorsed Cruz in his
as recently as last month
that he and Trump were
both in her top tier of candi- the years, isn’t conserva-
dates, making the endorse-
ment a symbolic blow to
Cruz. Palin slammed Presi-
dent Barack Obama as
the “capitulator in chief.”
Trump, she said, would “let
our warriors do their job
$15 per hour and breaking out the big-money speak-
up big Wall Street banks, ing fees Clinton received
a campaign soundtrack from Goldman Sachs, the
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) played a heavy rotation Wall Street giant that’s a
of songs touting revolu- frequent villain in Sanders’
While Sanders first drew tion. Sanders has called for speeches.
attention for the overflow a “political revolution” in While Sanders may be strik-
crowds he drew around America. ing a chord with voters
the country last summer, Young people with nose seeking an outsider candi-
he’s making more intimate rings and green and purple date, he’s also a practiced
appeals to voters in the fi- tinted hair filled the seats politician.Taking a page
nal few days before the directly behind the candi- out of Republican front-run-
Iowa’s Feb. 1 caucuses. date, though the rest of the ner Donald Trump’s play-
As voters filed into events audience was older. book, Sanders has recently
where Sanders made his Sanders, an independent started opening his remarks
pitch for increasing the who caucuses with Demo- with lengthy references to
federal minimum wage to crats on Capitol Hill, be- his improving poll numbers.
gan his campaign with firm He’s particularly focused
rules about what he was on surveys showing he’s
not willing to do to win the more likely to beat Trump in
presidency. He’s among the general election than
the most vigorous critics of Clinton, showing his irrita-
super political action com- tion with suggestions from
mittees, groups that can within his own party that’s
accept donations of any he’s unelectable.
size, and frequently touts Sanders also knows he
his campaign’s reliance on lacks foreign policy expe-
small donations. rience, particularly next
He also vowed to avoid to Clinton’s four years as
negative, personal attacks secretary of state. So he
on his rivals. But with the reminds voters of Clinton’s
prospect of victory in the vote in favor of the 2003 in-
early states at hand, Sand- vasion of Iraq.
ers is testing the limits of Even if Sanders can turn his
that pledge. momentum into victories in
In addition to his comments Iowa and New Hampshire,
on Clinton’s evaporat- there are daunting chal-
ing inevitability, he points lenges ahead. q
and go kick ISIS’ ass!” ed to campaign along- inence as one of the most
She also took aim at the Re- side her new political ally outspoken conservatives in
publican establishment for Wednesday, did not show the party. Republican con-
“attacking their own front- up at an Iowa rally. A cam- sultant Kevin Madden said
runner” and offered a chal- paign spokeswoman did Palin’s support could help
lenge to those who have not immediately respond shield Trump from charges
suggested that Trump, to questions about why she that his past positions make
whose positions on issues was not in attendance, but him too liberal to be the
like gun control and abor- said that she would ap- party’s nominee.
tion rights have shifted over pearing at a rally later in But some rally-goers at
the day in Oklahoma. Trump’s event Tuesday
tive enough. Palin was a virtual new- evening said they weren’t
Trump, in a statement, comer to the national po- sure whether Palin’s support
praised Palin as “a friend, litical arena when 2008 Re- would help Trump win over
and a high-quality person publican presidential nomi- voters. Several referenced
whom I have great respect nee John McCain named what they saw as her poor
for.” her as his running mate. performance as a vice
But Palin, who was expect- She has since risen to prom- presidential candidate.q