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Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is trying
to bounce back from a rocky debate
performance
Former President Bill Clinton launched a
caustic attack on supporters of Vermont Sen.
Bernie Sanders
Former President Bill Clinton is also in the thick of it after a caustic attack on supporters of the Vermont
senator, while his former secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, is getting heat for saying "there's a special
place in hell for women who don't help each other" -- i.e. Hillary Clinton.
The latest CNN/WMUR daily tracking poll on Monday showed Sanders with a handsome 26-point lead over
Hillary Clinton. On the Republican side, Trump maintained the lead he has held for months, 31% to nextbest Florida Sen. Rubio with 17%. Three-quarters of the polling was completed before Saturday's debate,
so it was unclear whether he had been hurt by his rocky performance.
Among other candidates, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was third with 14%, significantly ahead of Ohio Gov. John
Kasich at 10% and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 7%. Christie received 4%.
There are good reasons for the candidates, who
collectively had at least 30 events in New Hampshire
on Monday, to campaign right up to the finish line.
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The Democratic race between Clinton and Sanders is also getting increasingly testy, with a clash over the
former New York senator's ties to Wall Street and her campaign's attacks on his foreign policy.
On Sunday, Bill Clinton slammed the Vermont senator's supporters who he said subjected opponents to
"vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often -- not to mention sexist -- to repeat."
"The online campaign is, 'Anybody who doesn't agree with me is a tool of the establishment,'" Clinton
argued.
Michael Briggs, spokesman for the Sanders campaign, called the comments "disappointing" in a statement
to CNN.
But the former president told CNN that Sanders is fair game.
"It bothers me to be in an election where debate is impossible because if you disagree you are just part of
the establishment," he said.
Albright was also drawn into the crossfire following her remarks over the weekend, reflecting concern in the
Clinton camp that Sanders is beating the former first lady among younger women.
"I said that I think that people need to understand who has been really fighting on their behalf on issues that
are of interest to women, and clearly Hillary Clinton has," Albright told Time Magazine.
And only hours from the primary, new clouds gathered around the Clinton campaign following a Politico
report that the candidate and her husband were disappointed with the direction of her campaign and that a
staff shakeup could be in the offing.
But Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta dismissed the report.
"There is zero truth to what you may be reading. It's wrong. Hillary stands behind her team, period," he
wrote on Twitter.
Cassie Spodak contributed to this report.
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