Republican presidential candidates are blasting Hillary Clinton over the Democratic frontrunner’s assertion that the United States is “finally where we need to be” in the fight against the ISIS – and her unsubstantiated claim that the terror group is using a video of Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric as a recruiting tool.
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A look at some key takeaways from the third Democratic presidential debate. The Democratic candidates competed to denounce the Republican front-runner.
It was Sanders’ first comment on the data breach. Sanders fired his digital director when the story went public, but the DNC stoked the flames – helped along by some hot language from the Clinton campaign – by banning the Sanders campaign from seeing their own information. “We have got to get our foreign policies and priorities right, ” he said.
“She’s not referring to a specific video, but he is being used in social media by ISIS as propaganda”, said Palmieri. “I think she just demonstrated a much more expansive knowledge of the region, had much clearer ideas about what to do in the region”.
Sanders said he is “among the 77 percent” of Americans who don’t think the government can not prevent a lone shooter attack. Earlier this month, they pulled digital ads linking Clinton to Wall Street. The most notable instance of this occurred in the very beginning, when Sanders apologized to Clinton for several staffers from his campaign who illegally accessed data from her electronic voter registry.
Over the past few days a testy feud erupted between the Sanders and Clinton campaigns over misuse of a crucial voter file controlled by the Democratic National Committee.
Sanders did not follow their lead. For her part, the former Secretary of State trotted out some of her usual misleading talking points against a pair of flailing wannabes who aren’t ever going to get within smelling distance of the Democrat nomination.
US Democratic Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders arrives on stage to participate in the Democratic Presidential Debate hosted by ABC News at the Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on December 19, 2015. Although she called reducing gun violence in the country a complex issue, Clinton expressed hope for gun legislation to help stop the flow of some weapons, saying she would “welcome” Sanders to embrace such legislation. His aides believe that wins in those two states would give them momentum heading into the next contests in SC and Nevada, territory where he’s struggled to gain traction over the former first lady. Over eighteen million people watched the last Republican debates. They differed mildly on national security.
Clinton quickly shot back: “With all due respect, Senator, you voted for regime change with respect to Libya”.
Until this point, the debates haven’t given Mr Sanders any sort of lift. “This is a terribly complicated issue”, he said.
Sanders said he anxious that Clinton is “too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be”. “I’ve worked for him for 20 years”.
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EDITOR’S NOTE – Lisa Lerer covers the Democratic race for president for The Associated Press.
