The debate, lasting more than two hours, was the third for Democrats and was expected to have low viewership given that it was scheduled on the last weekend before Christmas when many Americans have turned their attention to the holidays.
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All the talk before the debate had to do with the Democratic National Committee’s suspension of Sanders’s campaign access to important party voter data, due to a vendor “screw-up”. Sanders, speaking on ABC’s This Week, also called the DNC’s decision to temporarily block his access to the voter data a “total overreach”.
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But on the debate stage, Sanders offered apologies while making clear he was still unhappy with the DNC.
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The Clinton camp has cheerfully fed the flames of this fight, in what appears to be a concerted effort to boost Trump among GOP voters.
Bernie Sanders is still seething over the data breach issue. It looks like Sanders’ team gained some intel following a breach in Clinton’s campaign, information used to target voters and anticipate what issues might motivate them, confirms the same source. Sanders said. “It was the night of the big football game in Iowa”.
“I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here in the United States, and literally around the world, that there is a clash of civilizations”, Ms. Clinton said.
Hillary Clinton lied to the American people and worse, to the families of the four murdered Americans about the Benghazi attack being caused by an Internet video. “They are going to people showing videos of Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadis”, she said.
One of the sharpest exchanges at the debate came when Clinton and Sanders discussed their drastically different approaches on foreign policy. In fact, Sanders’ current fundraising pace means Clinton may now be beaten in the final fundraising quarter of the year, the New York Times reports.
He claimed that U.S.’ priority should be defeating the Islamic State, calling Assad a “secondary issue”. Moreover, Sanders stated, “It is not Assad who is attacking the United States”. Clinton argued that both goals can be pursued simultaneously. Sanders for not backing adequate gun control, saying current restrictions would allow ISIS to easily get guns here. Sen.
For Sanders, Clinton’s main competitor, little has changed from his previous stance on what he calls “establishment politics and establishment economics” and the nation’s “rigged economy”. All the other candidates not mentioned a single time.
Clinton and Sanders were joined on stage by former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who has struggled to be a factor in the race.
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O’Malley has tried to present himself as a fresh face and to play up his outside-Washington credentials.
