“This is not the type of campaign that we run”.
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Clinton agrees with Obama on the need to use special forces and trainers but, like the president, she has said a large deployment of USA ground forces in the Middle East would be counterproductive.
The debate is the Democrats’ only one in the Granite State before the first-in-the-nation primary on February 9.
‘If I fire somebody I’m certainly happy to let you know, ‘ Weaver said, adding that he would not ‘impugn the character and reputation of these dedicated young people until I know whether somebody’s going to be fired or not’.
Bernie Sanders said that on two occasions there were computer breaches – which he said were the fault of the software vendor – in which his campaign could see proprietary data from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and that they alerted party officials “quietly”.
The two leading Democratic candidates looked to differentiate themselves on issues including foreign policy and economics during the contest at St. Anselm University in Manchester, N.H. Sanders tried to outflank Clinton on the left while Clinton sought to assert her experience that she draws on as a key portion of her pitch for electability.
“He is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter”, Clinton said of the self-declared Islamic State extremist group, claiming that jihadists are “showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists”.
‘So I wouldn’t really take much more of his word versus ours when everything we’ve said has proven to be true, ‘ she concluded.
Sanders apologized to Clinton and to his supporters during Saturday night’s Democratic presidential debate, hosted by ABC News.
Meanwhile, the man the Democratic candidates hope to succeed had gotten a grand total of two name checks.
In the runup to the debate, staffers from both campaigns had sniped and griped at each other over the revelation that Sanders aides had improperly accessed Clinton’s voter database.
Gun control became an early flash point between the three candidates, with O’Malley criticizing Sanders for voting against the Brady Bill and opposing removing immunity for gun dealers in violent crimes.
‘I can tell you we gave the logs to the campaign, I’m not going to get into a back and forth, ‘ she said. “We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS, which is a danger to us as well as the region and we finally have a UN Security Council resolution bringing the world together to go after a political transition in Syria”, she said. The incident, as well as earlier attacks in Paris, pushed national security to the forefront of the 2016 White House race.
Sanders, who is more comfortable talking about economic inequality and financial abuse, topics that are the cornerstones of his campaign, was deeply skeptical.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook called Sanders’ team’s actions “incredibly disappointing” on a call with reporters, playing up the significance of what Sanders’ campaign had accessed. She has since called that vote a mistake. “That is a pledge that I’m making”, she said.
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon similarly lashed into Sanders on CNN, saying the senator’s campaign acted “like kids in a candy store and “went hogwild” downloading data”.
When Clinton was asked the same question by moderators, she quipped, “Everybody should”.
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“Yes, I apologize”, Sanders responded.
