CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been relatively civil so far during their months-long contest. But tensions in the Democratic presidential campaign are poised to flare in Charleston, South Carolina, Sunday night over curbing gun violence.
With two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Clinton, Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who barely qualified for inclusion, were set to take the debate stage just a few blocks from Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where nine parishioners were killed during Bible study in a mass shooting over the summer.
BOW, N.H. – Carly Fiorina soldiered on in New Hampshire Saturday, telling supporters of her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination to remain optimistic, even after low poll numbers took her out of the prime-time debate Thursday night."When I launched my campaign for the presidency on May 4, 2015, I was 17 out of 16 candidates, because literally no one had ever heard of my name," the former chief executive of computer maker Hewlett-Packard said at the town hall-style meeting. "Because no one knew who I was, I hadn't been in politics all my life, I wasn't a celebrity, the pollsters wouldn't even ask for my name. Everyone kind of wrote me off: 'She can't do this.'"She credited her early rise in voter surveys partly to those people from New Hampshire who ventured out to listen to her speak and choosing to support her. But she also made a strong showing in the second GOP debate, in September, which delivered a temporary boost and put her in second place behind only Donald Trump in the Granite State by early October, according to an average of polls tracked by RealClearPolitics.com.
It didn't last long, however. Her support has ebbed to 3.8 percent in the tracking data, down from the October peak of about 14 percent and ranking her eighth out of 11. Debate sponsors relegated Fiorina to the undercard forum on Thursday, along with Senator Rand Paul of Tennessee, who chose to boycott the event.
