Debate Targets ISIS, Security

Two more Bernie Sanders campaign staffers were suspended along with another who was sacked in connection with the camp accessing Hillary Clinton’s voter data, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said late Saturday. After the debate’s moderators attempted to shut him down, he forced his way into the debate and declared that Clinton and Sanders have both done too little to strengthen gun laws.

Debate watch parties were held in Manchester while the candidates debated at St. Anselm College.

The debate came as frustration mounted within the Sanders campaign over concerns that the Democratic National Committee was tilting the contest in Clinton’s favor. “I don’t think we should be imposing big new programs that are going to raise middle-class families’ taxes”, the former secretary of state said.

The breach by Sanders’s aides of Clinton’s proprietary voter data was also expected to be one of the hot topics of the debate but the candidates preferred to ease the heightened tension.

Sanders’ campaign “accused the homeowner of violating the terms of an agreement, when they had unauthorized access to the house and took things that didn’t belong to them”. Trump was making that job harder, she said.

The issue led off the debate, but was soon after dispensed with by Sanders and Clinton.

Senator Sanders apologized to both Hillary Clinton and his own supporters for the actions of staff in a data breach that has roiled the Democratic campaign for president in the past 24 hours.

The consensus was that all three Democratic presidential contenders performed well – which left Clinton still the clear front-runner.

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Sanders explained what he knew about the data breach and offered an apology to Clinton and to his supporters for letting them down.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Trump preyed not only on the fears of Americans of a terrorist attack in the wake of Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., but also on their economic worries even as the billionaire businessman opposed raising the minimum wage.

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“They want American soldiers on the ground fighting them, giving them many more targets and giving them a great recruiting oppurtunity”, Clinton said.

With a large focus on the so-called Islamic State and tensions in the Middle East, Sanders, who trails Clinton in national polls, criticized how the former secretary of state would address these issues.

Clinton said she, not her husband, would still choose flowers and china for state dinners, if elected president.

“First priority: destroy Isis”, he said.

“We can do all the speeches we want, but we ain’t gonna succeed unless there is a consensus”, Sanders said, repeating a familiar theme in his discussion of gun policy.