Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley were slated to debate Saturday night amid a growing and bitter feud between the far-and-away front-runner and the longshot Vermont senator.
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“Through our candidate forums and our debates, we are garnering large audiences and our candidates are also out on the campaign trail making sure that we can spread our message and draw a contrast”.
The Sanders campaign has now complied with the DNC’s request to provide the information that we have requested of them.
Victor Blackwell interviewed Debbie Wasserman Schultz today, where he asked her about why the head of the Democratic National Committee was willing to make such an early deal with Bernie Sanders’ campaign to remove their sanctions for improperly accessing voter data.
Before the data breach the week had gone well for Sanders, who broke a record by reaching two million mostly small donations. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told reporters in a conference call the Sanders staff had taken vital data that constituted a “strategic road map” for the campaign’s voter turnout models and strategies.
That’s an implicit knock on his top rival Hillary Clinton, a former first lady and secretary of state.
But while she stressed that her staff had worked hard to collate private data, “we should move on because I don’t think the American people are all that interested in this”. A recent Real Clear Politics average of the latest polls showing the former secretary of state with 56% support, compared with 30.8% for Sanders and 3.7% for O’Malley.
The three Democrats criticized Republicans, but the only one they mentioned was Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner.
Bernie Sanders during the second Democratic presidential primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa on November 14, 2015National security and foreign affairs are expected to dominate the evening – both of which are weak points for Sanders, who is more comfortable talking about economic inequality and financial abuse, topics that are the cornerstones of his campaign.
Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver accused the DNC of working to protect Clinton, pointing to the party’s limited debates at low-viewership periods such as Saturday nights as another example. The drama heightened when Sanders filed a lawsuit but came to an anticlimactic end on Saturday morning with the DNC giving his campaign back its regular access.
Sanders also says he wants to fight and defeat the Islamic State without getting the US involved in “perpetual warfare in the quagmire of the Middle East”. The suit contended the DNC’s actions caused Sanders’ campaign “injury and financial losses”. The DNC said the Sanders campaign had supplied information about the breach and promised to cooperate with an investigation.
“By their action, the leadership of the Democratic National Committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign”. Clinton countered that Sanders, too, had supported regime change in Libya.
The Democratic debate, with Hillary Clinton MIA.
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The candidates clashed heatedly and repeatedly over gun control measures, with O’Malley interrupting the moderators to accuse Sanders of being weak on gun control and Clinton changing her position.
