Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton: 'It's a lot better to win' Iowa

Story by The Hill
Written by Lisa Hagen

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday moved on to New Hampshire claiming victory in Monday night's Iowa caucuses.

"I won and I lost there, it’s a lot better to win," Clinton said, referencing her unexpected third-place finish in the 2008 Iowa caucus.

On Monday, the former secretary of State was locked in a close race with Bernie Sanders in Iowa and the race was too close to call at the end of the day.

The Iowa Democratic Party chairman on Tuesday declared Clinton the caucus winner with a razor-thin margin, although some media outlets have yet to call the race.

Now with the New Hampshire primary a week away, she's hoping to bulid on the momentum of being a victor.

"What I’m excited about is that I think in the last few weeks, we have seen the arrival at the right time in this campaign for you to understand the contest of ideas ... between my esteemed opponent Sen. Sanders," Clinton said at a campaign event in Nashua, N.H.

She said her campaign will be "bringing all that energy, excitement, and determination to New Hampshire where we’re going to work hard up until the primary next week."

The former secretary of State also stepped up her attacks on Sanders.

Clinton doesn't normally bring up her chief primary opponent by name, but she laid into Sanders's proposal for a single-payer health care system and argued that she'll continue to support the Affordable Care Act.

"Sen. Sanders shares my goal, but we have a very different approach. He wants us to start over ... start a contentious national debate about what to do with health care," Clinton said.

"I fundamentally disagree. I don’t want to go back to gridlock," she continued. "People can’t wait for another debate."