DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton cast herself as the heir to President Barack Obama’s agenda and the antidote to Republicans before thousands of Iowa Democrats at a high-stakes party fundraiser.
Bernie Sanders took a much different approach on Saturday night, calling himself a principled fighter even when it wasn’t easy – a not-so-subtle critique of Clinton.
Clinton, Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley made perhaps their most important pitches of the campaign so far to an influential audience of about 6,600 Iowa Democrats who could help determine the outcome in next February’s leadoff presidential caucuses.
Takeaways from the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner, known to insiders as the “J-J.”
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