“Secretary Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be”, Mr Sanders said during the ABC America debate.
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Clinton thanked Sanders for the apology, saying her campaign was distressed to hear about the data breach as it had worked hard to compile its information on voters.
“I don’t think we should be imposing big new programs that are going to raise middle-class families’ taxes”, Clinton said. “It is not Assad who is attacking the United States”, he said.
Education really is a divisive issue within the Democratic Party, and one where Hillary Clinton has indicated she might take a different tack than President Obama.
Sanders’ campaign seized on a glitch in a DNC-housed program to access Hillary Clinton’s proprietary data on early-state voters this week. “We now have that”, she said.
The former first lady, however, stressed that most of her campaign contributions are from small donors.
The candidates blasted Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s comments regarding Muslims.
For the Americans not on the road ahead of the holidays or watching NFL football, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley provided the entertainment, engaging in a substantive if somewhat dry policy forum.
Saturday’s debate was the first for Democrats since the shooting in San Bernardino, California, where 14 people were killed by a married couple that authorities say had been radicalized. In last week’s GOP debate, Trump called for halting at least temporarily immigration by Muslims, building a wall to block illegal immigration from Mexico, and bombing Syria to destroy ISIS even at the risk of antagonizing Russian Federation.
He said that the most recent breech involved inappropriate behaviour by one of his staff members, adding that person had now been dismissed.
Sanders also called for an global coalition against ISIS and agreed with Clinton that the intervention of American ground troops would be the wrong choice. Challenged by Sanders on her policy there, the former secretary of state seemed to accuse him of playing Monday morning quarterback.
Sanders, meanwhile, called on Americans to stand together to address real issues and to not allow people like Trump to distract and divide them by race or other measures.
In the previous debates, Sanders hammered Clinton for her close to ties to campaign donors from Wall Street banks and wealthy hedge fund investors.
“She’ll be fine. She isn’t going to focus on Bernie Sanders or Martin O’Malley”.
“Yes. I apologize”, Sanders said.
“They love him from the sense that he is supporting their rhetoric”, she said.
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Initially Clinton was offered a question about the role of gun control in countering terrorism and she declined to attack Sanders, as she has in the past. “Thank you; good night”, Clinton told viewers, “and may the force be with you”.
