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Democrats grapple with Trump effect as primary draws near
LISA LERER gusting” and said she was Republican presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd before
Associated Press “schlonged” in the 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — race for the Democratic addressing supporters at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. Months of intense focus on
Months of intense focus on nomination, using a vulgar
the Republican presiden- Yiddish term to describe the Republican race, and front-runner Trump, have reverberated through the Democratic field,
tial race have prompted her loss to now-President
Democratic front-runner Barack Obama. On Twitter prompting Hillary Clinton to turn her attention to her would-be GOP challengers and leaving her
Hillary Clinton to turn her Tuesday, Trump denied the
attention to her would-be word was vulgar and said chief rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, gasping for airtime. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
challengers in the general it simply means “beaten
election, leaving her chief badly.”
Democratic rival gasping In an interview Tuesday
for airtime. with The Des Moines Reg-
Now, after spending weeks ister, Clinton said: “I don’t
largely out of the spotlight know that he has any
nationally, Clinton plans boundaries at all. His big-
to intensify her campaign otry, his bluster, his bullying
schedule from an almost have become his cam-
incumbent-style public ef- paign.”
fort to a more aggressive Clinton’s main rival for the
approach. Democratic nomination is
With just six weeks left be- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sand-
fore the first round of pri- ers. Though Clinton leads
mary voting, Clinton plans Sanders in national polls by
a series of multi-day swings more than 20 points, the
through Iowa starting in numbers are much tighter
January, interspersing trips in Iowa and New Hamp-
there with stops in New shire, where Sanders has an
Hampshire and other early edge. The Sanders cam-
primary states. Her cam- paign believes victories
paign will also unveil what in those two states would
Clinton has called her “not- undercut Clinton’s strength
so-secret weapon,” send- and send him into the next
ing her husband, former contests — in Southern
President Bill Clinton, out to and Western states where
hit the stump after months he’s polling lower— with a
of behind-the-scenes ac- boost of momentum.
tivity. “You will take that mo-
And in a sign of the esca- mentum coming out of the
lating battle between the states, people will come to
two party front-runners, her you in very large numbers,
campaign was forced to in very short order, and you
engage with Republican will build that into victory,”
Donald Trump on Tuesday Sanders campaign adviser
after he called Clinton’s Tad Devine told report-
bathroom break during ers in New Hampshire on
the recent debate “dis- Saturday.q
Lawmakers spar on visa travel for Iran
ERICA WERNER and signed by President
Associated Press Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top The legislation, a response
Republican lawmakers to the Paris terror attacks,
accused the Obama ad- deals with the “visa waiv-
ministration Wednesday er” program that allows
of ignoring congressional the citizens of 38 countries
intent and the spirit of the to travel to the U.S. without
law in offering reassuranc- obtaining a visa. It makes
es to Iran about new visa a series of changes, in-
rules. cluding requiring a visa
“There is no ambiguity,” for anyone who’s visited
said House Majority Lead- Iraq, Syria, Iran or Sudan in
er Kevin McCarthy of Cali- the previous five years, as
fornia. “The administration well as dual nationals with
should follow the law as citizenship in any of those
written and agreed to.” countries.
At issue is a new law tight- This could make travel
ening visa-free travel to back and forth to the U.S.
the U.S., enacted as part more difficult for Iranian-
of a sprawling spending Americans or for Europe-
bill passed overwhelming- ans withbusiness dealings
ly by Congress last week in Iran.q
