Clinton displays foreign policy expertise in Democratic debate

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said in a television interview that the Democratic National Committee deliberately scheduled debates at times when viewership would be low in an effort to “protect” the party’s front-runner, Hillary Clinton.

“If you go back and look at social media, if you look at what’s going on, they are definitely pointing at Mr. Trump”, her campaign chairman, John Podesta, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.

“They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists”, the former secretary of state said.

Clinton’s comments came after she was asked to respond to Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the US.

Jen Palmieri, communications director of the Clinton campaign, told Stephanopoulos that the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the activity of terror organizations like ISIS online, “said that [terrorists] are using [Trump] in social media as propaganda to help recruit supporters”.

Sanders said he had lost an election in Vermont for a gun-control stance and Clinton said she had backed gun-control measures.

It was recently revealed that Sanders’ campaign stole valuable voter information belonging to Clinton.

There is one area where both Clinton and Trump might agree. Clinton taking a lot of heat this morning for the claim about Isis using Donald Trump in recruitment videos. Her above-the-fray posture in the debate signalled Clinton’s confidence, just weeks before the first votes in Iowa, that neither of her Democratic rivals would prove a significant obstacle on her march to the nomination. Hillary Clinton a solid lead, double digit lead outside the margin of error. “I’m running because we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change and take on the fossil fuel industry and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy”, he said. “It doesn’t exist, and [Trump] keeps claiming it. That’s called pathological lying”, Sanders said. “I have said that I want to be the president for the struggling, the striving, and the successful, ” she said.

Later, O’Malley hit back: “May I offer a different generation’s perspective on this?” he said while the two older candidates gave their positions on fighting ISIS. “But if there’s one thing I learned about New Hampshire, it’s that you’ll rise or fall on the people who are for you, the people who work for you”. “What somebody like a Donald Trump is doing is playing on the fears and anxieties of the American people”, he said.