Sanders clashed at length with Clinton over how to tackle extremism, opposing her call for a no-fly zone over Syria and for focusing on ousting that country’s President Bashar al-Assad.
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Her words echoed the language that Sanders used when he dismissed issues around Clinton’s use of a private email account and server when she was secretary of state.
Sanders also took issue with the Clinton campaign for highlighting the incident in press releases. In response, the Democratic National Convention blocked Sanders from accessing all voter data, even his own, until the two sides reached an agreement early Saturday morning.
“.because caucuses are important”, said Anita Froehling, a Martin O’Malley.
“We offered a lot more than they were willing to take”, Clinton said.
The former first lady, however, said she would turn to her husband for advice in the same way other presidents have – particularly when it comes to things like special missions and how to move the economy forward.
During Saturday night’s Democratic debate, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton showed America that she, too, wasn’t above a Star Wars reference.
It was their party’s third debate of the primary election season – the last of 2015 and their first since the attacks in San Bernardino, California where a radicalized married couple killed 14 people. It came as Clinton has solidified her standing atop the field, shaking off a rocky start and the controversy about her use of private email at the State Department.
The concerns follow complaints by Sanders and O’Malley that the Democratic Committee has been protecting Clinton by limiting the number of presidential debates and holding three of them on weekends, when voters are less likely to be home watching television.
On Twitter, Sanders and Clinton drew even.
And she disagreed with Mr Sanders’s assertion that the U.S. military should prioritise the fight against IS militants over working to get Mr Assad to leave power, saying both should be done at the same time.
“Regime change is easy, getting rid of dictators is easy”.
We need to have everybody in our country focused on watching what happens and reporting it if it’s suspicious, reporting what you hear. But he said troops on the ground must be Muslims, and not American troops. Clinton, as a US senator from NY, had voted to authorize the war in a vote she has since disavowed.
Clinton says Muslims in the US should be brought in to combat extremism at home – something she advocated for in a speech this week.
While Sanders’ defended Americans’ right to purchase guns, he agreed that the federal government should move on policies where there is a broad consensus of support, like stronger instant background checks. Strategies to battle ISIS – including the role of tech companies and encryption – differences of opinion about regime change and an exchange about whether the candidates would pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class followed. “That is a pledge that I’m making”, she said.
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Clinton has had to explain her long-standing ties to Wall Street on the campaign trail as her opponents Sen.
