Hillary is going to Flint to meet with the mayor and learn more about the drinking-water crisis —
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-0206-clinton-new-hampshire-primary-20160205-story.html
Clinton will be visiting Flint, Mich., to meet with the mayor about the drinking-water crisis that continues to grip that largely African American city. The visit will likely impress Democratic voters in New Hampshire, but the message of racial justice Clinton is sending through the trip is sure to resonate even more in South Carolina, where African Americans dominate the Democratic primary vote and Clinton remains popular.
The trip to Flint came together quickly. Campaign staff had been visiting the city earlier in the week, and the mayor extended an invitation for Clinton to visit this weekend.
"We've got the schedule built so she can be here every day," Clinton's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, said after the candidate debate Thursday night in Durham, N.H. "But the mayor asked her to come, and she wants to go and learn more," Palmieri said.
Bernie Sanders is heading to New York to appear on Saturday Night Live —
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-make-snl-appearance/story?id=36744259
Bernie Sanders will make a pit stop in New York City for a cameo appearance on NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, a senior campaign official confirmed to ABC News.
Comedian Larry David, who has been impersonating the Vermont senator on the show, is slated to host the episode.
The New York visit will briefly take Sanders away from campaigning in New Hampshire, just days before the Feb. 9 primary.
I’ve got absolutely nothing against appearing on SNL — Hillary has done so several times herself.
But — they are both leaving the NH campaign trail just before the primary for very different reasons. Do I think the contrast will look good for Bernie?
I’ll put it this way — if I were on his campaign team, I would have asked him to wait until after we had put NH in the bag. I fully expect him to win there, but he needs a big win and I wouldn’t take the people of NH for granted, or let it look like I might be.
Maybe this is a whole lot of nothing. Maybe not. You never know what narrative the media will decide to push, but there is an opportunity here for them to make Bernie look off-key, who knows if they will.