Clinton? Sanders? I'll beat either one says a confident Trump

"I've really had my mind set on Hillary," Donald Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner on board his plane Tuesday before a rally at the University of Northern Iowa. "I've really been thinking in terms of her, but now I see what's happening, and there's a possibility that it won't be her.""What's happening," of course, is the growing strength of Bernie Sanders, now tied with Hillary Clinton in the RealClearPolitics average of polls in the Democratic race in Iowa, and leading her by 6 points in the same average of New Hampshire surveys.

"I think I'll beat Hillary," Trump continued. "I think Sanders actually would be easier to beat. But it makes no difference to me whatsoever … I look forward to running against whoever it is."

It can be risky for a candidate to get ahead of himself. In December 2011, Newt Gingrich, then riding high in the polls, told ABC News, "It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee." Needless to say, Gingrich did not become the nominee. Voters don't like a candidate who thinks he's got it in the bag.
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