On Friday the DNC discovered four of Bernie Sanders’ staffers improperly took information compiled by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and the DNC blocked the Sanders’ camp from seeing any voter data from its shared data base. His campaign later said it had suspended two more aides. Trump, Sanders suggested, uses Mexicans and Muslims as scapegoats to distract struggling Americans from the real problem – which, Sanders said, is that people like Trump rig the system to make more money.
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Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley faced off for the third democratic debate tonight in New Hampshire. Republicans at their debate earlier this week strongly disputed that idea, describing the situation as dire and tying her to the policy missteps they see.
Sanders tried to muddy the waters a bit by implying it was possible Clinton’s campaign could have some of his team’s data. “Social Security, which Republicans call a ‘Ponzi scheme, ‘ may face privatization”, Clinton said. Clinton also had 44 percent, while former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley had 12 percent.
“We also need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that Trump is sending around the world don’t fall on receptive ears”, she said.
Speaking to Fox News host Chris Wallace, Fiorina asserted that Clinton would rather run against Donald Trump. (Of course.) In one of the more jaw dropping moments of the night, Clinton stared down the audience and proclaimed as fact that ISIS was showing videos of Donald Trump to aspiring radicals in an effort to recruit them.
“If the United States does not lead, there is not another leader – there is a vacuum”, she said. In her opening and closing statements, she sounded as though she was already the general-election candidate, making her case against the GOP in general and Republican front-runner Donald Trump in particular. Bringing up Trump allows her to present herself as a serious figure who would smoothly move into the White House and represent the USA around the globe.
Clinton and Sanders, her closest challenger, entered the debate in the midst of one of their fiercest fights – about the campaign itself rather than a national or global issue. Clinton argued that both goals can be pursued simultaneously. Ironically, the conflict was starting to threaten Clinton more than Sanders due to what some believed was an overreaction by the DNC, which for a short period punished Sanders’ campaign by keeping it from its own data bank.
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He accused Clinton of being too friendly with Wall Street and “too much into regime change” in foreign lands, repeatedly mentioning her vote in the Senate to authorize the invasion of Iraq.
