Clinton, Sanders face off at debate amid data breach dispute
Clinton said at the end of her closing statement, where she stood between Sen. “This is not the type of campaign that we run”.
The DNC maintains a trove of voter information, to which presidential hopefuls can add information they use to target voters and anticipate what issues might motivate 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.
Sanders’ campaign fired a worker involved in the data breach, and campaign manager Jeff Weaver admitted that the worker’s actions were “unacceptable”.
Sanders’ campaign staff is promising Sanders will, much like the last debate, hit Clinton hard on issues such as her vote in the US Senate in 2003 in favour of the US invasion of Iraq.
The debates themselves have cast by Clinton’s rivals as part of what they say is a DNC protection plan to limit the chances that the underdog candidate have to knock Clinton off her game. But she said it also had some “glitches” that needed to be fixed without specifying which aspects of the law she wanted to improve. 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. And Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, said simply, “We need to rein in overprescribing”. “They were refusing to give us that information”.
Later on Saturday, Rubio’s campaign sent an email to fundraise off his earlier comments on the Democratic presidential candidates.
For Clinton, the question is how forcefully to confront Sanders whether to defend the DNC, which temporarily cut off the Vermont senator’s access to the party’s voter database.
Sanders also called for an worldwide coalition against ISIS and agreed with Clinton that the intervention of American ground troops would be the wrong choice.
By contrast, Clinton has mostly held a steady lead on the Democratic side.
Sanders’ supporters allege the actions of the Democratic Party on Friday confirm what they have long suspected – that the party is engineering the Democratic nominating process in favour of Hillary Clinton, the “inevitable” candidate.
Will Clinton return the favor in tonight’s debate in New Hampshire? Still, he slammed the Democratic National Committee for briefly cutting off his campaign’s access to its own voter files, calling it an “egregious act”. One staffer was sacked.
In retaliation, Sanders’ campaign filed a lawsuit against the DNC.
The Clinton camp, meanwhile, aggressively went after the Sanders campaign on Friday afternoon, with Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon accusing the Sanders staffers who discovered the Clinton data of acting “like kids in the candy store”.