Clinton Looks Ahead To Super Tuesday
ROCK HILL, S.C. -- With Hillary Clinton trailing in South Carolina polls before tomorrow night's Democratic primary there, she's looking forward to Super Tuesday saying "This is gonna be a very vigorous race to the finish line."
Clinton told reporters that she feels "very good about Super Tuesday" and that she is "excited" about the support in those states and points out that her momentum is "growing and solidfying" across the country.
Her campaign acts as if she will need momentum after spending the week trying to publicly write off South Carolina to Barack Obama. However, given the fact that she, her husband and her daughter have spent most of the week campaigning hard here, it seems to be a ploy by the campaign to try and lower expectation in tomorrow's contest. On the flip side, it puts pressure on the Obama campaign to win big tomorrow. A similar situation occured in New Hampshire when Obama led by 13 points going into the primary day, only to lose to Clinton by 6 points. Her win dominated media coverage as a tremedous comeback.
Clinton also defended her husband who has been in the news in the past few days for taking swipes at Obama while campaigning on her behalf.
"I think that campaigns are contentious. We're obviously in a very contested part of this campaign as we move toward these Feb. 5th contests. There is a perfectly legitimate role for drawing contrasts, for pointing to people's records for correcting people's records," said Clinton.
Later, Clinton was also asked about recent comments made by John McCain last night where he said Clinton's plan to withdraw troops from Iraq amounts to a "surrender and waiving the white flag."
"There will be plenty of time to engage with Senator McCain if and when he is the nominee and if I am as well. He's also said that he could see having American troops in Iraq for 100 years and I don't think very many Americans agree with that."
Senator Clinton is scheduled to host a rally in Charleston, SC later this evening with her husband and daughter Chelsea.