CNN: People Aren’t ‘Feeling the Bern,’ They’re Just Turning off Hillary

‘It might not be so much that people feeling the ‘Bern’ as they aren’t feeling Hillary Clinton’

COSTELLO: “When it comes to the Democratic candidates hoping to have his job though, the campaign is certainly heating up. Voters in Iowa now starting to 'feel the Bern’ according to a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines register poll which shows Hillary Clinton edging Sanders, Bernie Sanders, by just two points. Last month Clinton was ahead of Sanders by nine points in this same poll. So let’s talk about that with CNN’s senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar and CNN senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns. Brianna, first to you. Tell us more about these polls.”
KEILAR: “Well, this is a poll, Carol, that a lot of political observers are keenly observing. They’ve been sort of anxious for a Des Moines register poll because the pollster who works — who does this poll actually is really seen as someone who pulls out the gold standard when it comes to numbers. So, this is something people are really looking at. Forty-two points Hillary Clinton, 40 Bernie Sanders. So you see the race tightening. But what’s interesting when you look at the shift here from last month, it might not be so much that people are feeling the 'Bern’ as they aren’t feeling Hillary Clinton because she has actually dipped in the polls. And you see those undecided, it’s 14 percent, that is actually a huge jump of people who are uncommitted from — pardon me, from last month, as you can see there. Now, Bill Clinton on the campaign trail, he’s actually downplaying not just this poll certainly, but the number of polls that we have seen of the race tightening. Here’s what he said.
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CLINTON: “All they’re doing now, as they should be doing, is talking about the differences in their positions. That’s good. That’s healthy.”
UNKNOWN REPORTER: “What about the polls tightening. Does that surprise you?”
CLINTON: “No. I am surprised it didn’t happen sixty days ago.”
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