Hillary Clinton’s strong performance in last week’s Democratic debate has helped her to catch up with her closest party rival Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, the pivotal early voting state where he had moved into a lead.
The new Suffolk University-Boston Globe survey puts Mrs Clinton on 37 per cent, two points ahead of the firebrand “democratic socialist”. She is narrowly ahead in Iowa and has a substantial lead over Mr Sanders and all the other Democratic candidates in the more racially diverse south, backed by the deepest war chest and largest campaign infrastructure in the race.
Mrs Clinton’s recovery in New Hampshire is further evidence that her campaign is on a stronger footing after a gruelling summer when she was rocked by the controversy over her use of an unsecure private email server when she was secretary of state.
She will testify about her emails before a congressional committee this week, a showdown that she has approached with confidence since her claim that it is partisan began to stick.
In a CNN interview at the weekend, Mrs Clinton repeated the accusation and also attacked Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, “for going beyond the bounds of what I think is appropriate for anybody running for president” in his remarks about women and immigrants.