“No, I’ve never made a promise like that”, the former governor said.
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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has struggled to move beyond single digits in polls and tried to cast the dispute over campaign data as a frivolous issue few Americans care about, particularly during the holidays.
The debate unfolded amid a minor scandal between the Clinton and Sanders campaigns over an apparent data breach when at least one Sanders staffer took advantage of a computer glitch to peek at Clinton voter information.
The debate came as frustration mounted within the Sanders campaign over concerns that the Democratic National Committee was tilting the contest in Clinton’s favor.
“We believe Secretary Clinton will be coming around the corner any minute, but in the meantime we want to start with this eye-opening number”, Muir said, continuing his question and noting that it was directed at Sanders anyway. Returning to her focus on Trump, Clinton said, “If you’re going to put together a coalition in the region to take on the threat of ISIS, you don’t want to alienate the very countries you need to be part of the coalition”. Sanders to Clinton, discussing his staff’s look at her campaign’s voter data. “That is a pledge that I’m making”, she said. “Don’t know that”, he said. “Now that I think we’ve resolved your data, we’ve agreed on an independent inquiry, we should move on. But there is a broad consensus on gun safety regulation”. “It was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country”, she said then.
“Arming more people is not the appropriate response to terrorism”, she said.
Sanders and Clinton defended their records, with the Vermont senator saying, “Let’s calm down a little bit, Martin”. “Guns in and of themselves, in my opinion, will not make Americans safer”.
“Can we stick to gun control?” That’s why they turned their attention to the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
Clinton said GOP front-runner Donald Trump is becoming IS’ “best recruiter” with his call to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the U.S.
While the first line is familiar – many have suggested Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric could or will be used by terror groups to boost recruiting – there is no evidence so far that the real estate developer has been shown in ISIS videos as a marketing tool, as CNN’s Reality Check team determined. “Because I don’t think the American people are all that interested in this”.
Sanders doesn’t blink before answering whether Wall Street’s going to like a Sanders presidency. Thus there’s no way to compare how much money she’s received from students and teachers or from people associated with Wall Street banks.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sparred over fiscal issues, national security and guns Saturday night as the final televised Democratic presidential debate exposed some sharp differences between the party’s two leading hopefuls. Sanders says overthrowing Isis must come first, and he also criticized her plans to go after Assad, calling her a “fan of regime change”.
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Clinton insisted she was not ready to send United States boots into Syria and Iraq, saying she had a strategy to “combat and defeat ISIS without getting us involved in another ground war”.
