ABC’s Debate Moderators Started Without Hillary Clinton

Clinton zeroed in on Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, at one point accusing him of helping Islamic State militants recruit new members with his vow to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

“I want to apologize to my supporters”, Sanders said Saturday at the outset of the Democratic debate in Manchester, N.H.

The Sanders campaign on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee in a federal court to restore its access to the voter data.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, let’s calm down a little, Martin”, Sanders said. He, however, again blamed the data breach on a DNC vendor that “screwed up” and took issue with the Clinton campaign for highlighting the incident in press releases.

This was the most substantive and, frankly, emotional exchange on foreign policy between the two leading Democrats throughout the campaign. “Because I don’t think the American people are all that interested in this”.

But try as Clinton did to argue the logic for pursuing Assad’s eventual ouster, her Iraq War vote and her record as Secretary of State – during a period that saw the Libyan revolution and the fall of Mubarak in Egypt – offered her opponents an opportunity to chalk it all up to her predilections.

By blocking Bernie Sanders from a Democratic computer that contained information about voters, the party, and its apparent help for Hillary Clinton, became a big story.

The former secretary of state further praised Sanders for shifting his position slightly on firearms-related issues, but urged the senator to support congressional Democrats’ gun control legislation.

“I am not convinced that information from our campaign may not have ended up in her campaign”. He added the USA should tell Saudi Arabia that instead of going to war in Yemen, the kingdom should go to war against IS.

She says Americans need to be united against the threats the country faces, and that Muslim-Americans must be part of that united front.

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.

This wasn’t the debate the Democratic Party wanted and the party can blame itself for that.

The foreign policy focus has blunted Sanders’ momentum in the Democratic race.

Sanders hit his stride when the debate turned to economic issues, a centerpiece of his campaign.

Clinton accepted the apology quickly.

She also vowed to stop any tax hikes on families with incomes under $250,000.

She concluded her answer by saying that the USA needs to work closer with American Muslims and “not demonize them as the Republicans have been doing”.

Clinton went on to say that it might take up to two years to vet the refugees, and that she would prioritize widows, orphans, and the elderly. The candidate was about 30 seconds late getting back to her lectern, arriving as Muir began asking a question despite her absence.