Democrat Bernie Sanders plans campaign stops in Reno, Vegas
Bernie Sanders may be a long-shot to enter the White House, but the Jewish Democratic candidate has rival Hillary Clinton, and US President Barack Obama, beat in at least one category: Making it drizzle.
Clinton’s campaign on Friday bitterly accused the Sanders team of stealing some of its voter data, and the Sanders campaign blamed the vendor that runs the database and the Democratic National Committee for the breach.
Once again the prohibitive frontrunner in two national polls released this week, Clinton was on her game again in Manchester Saturday night, especially during the lengthy stretch of the debate devoted to foreign policy. Sanders fired his digital director when the story went public, but the DNC stoked the flames – helped along by some hot language from the Clinton campaign – by banning the Sanders campaign from seeing their own information. While the dispute may not mean much to voters, the bitterness could linger between the two campaigns. Clinton and sanders tussling over guns – Guns in my opinion won’t make America safer.
On national security, he reiterated years-old criticism of her vote for the 2003 Iraq invasion, accusing her of being “too much into regime change”.
According to Clinton, the IS group was “going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists”. Many of us didn’t think he was going to get in this race, now every republican pivots off of him.
Martin O’Malley attacked Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Clinton for not doing enough to strengthen gun control laws.
To date, Bill Clinton, whose love for the campaign trail is Democratic legend, has been largely a behind-the-scenes player during Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
The candidates spoke about the rise of heroin and opiate drug addiction across the country, with Sanders describing addiction as “a disease, not a criminal activity”, per Newsweek.
Attacking from the other side, Sanders said the United States should focus on defeating Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, rather than also trying to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.
Maybe Clinton should just strike the word “video” from all of her comments.
New Hampshire is a friendly place for Bernie Sanders right now.
Sanders apologized when prompted by ABC’s David Muir. Briggs declined to name the staffers, who he said were suspended Saturday after logs regarding the breach were handed over to the campaign by the DNC. He has assembled a following of loyal progressives, young and old, who represent one more version of the anti-establishment anger coursing through the country, much as Donald Trump’s populist appeals have brought him to the top of the polls in the Republican race. “It is not Assad who is attacking the United States”.
Clinton also vowed not to raise taxes on middle-class Americans if elected next November, questioning the affordability of some of Sanders’ proposals such as creation of a single-payer healthcare system and tuition-free college.
Clinton backs that approach, but has struck a more hawkish tone in other areas.
“I am not giving up on Libya and no one should”, Clinton said.
“I’m very clear that we have a distinct difference between those of us on this stage tonight and all of our Republican counterparts”, she said, in her opening remarks.
Republicans have criticized Obama’s handling of Islamic State and have sought to link the former secretary of state to what they say is a failed strategy. It was the time horizon: While the GOP anxiously eyes February’s primaries, the Democrats already have shifted focus to November’s general election.
Clinton quickly accepted the apology Saturday night, saying “We should move on because I don’t think the American people are all that interested in this”.