DNC, Sanders reach deal restoring access to voter data

“What is true is the data we collected and need to run a winning campaign is now being stolen from us by a DNC dominated by Clinton people”.

The Democratic National Committee has agreed to allow the Bernie Sanders campaign to regain access to voter files.

The Sanders camp admits that at least one staffer inappropriately accessed Clinton’s voter database.

The Sanders campaign said that the breach was not the first one, and that the campaign had reported them in the past. “Sanders’ data. The information we provided tonight is essentially the same information we already sent them by email on Thursday”, said Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver.

“The Sanders campaign has agreed to fully cooperate with the continuing DNC investigation of this breach”.

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz defended the punishment against Sanders in a CNN interview, saying his campaign had acted in an “inappropriate, unacceptable” manner and had downloaded the information.

Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said Saturday the campaign is “pleased” about the independent audit, adding “we expect further disciplinary action to be taken as appropriate”. “I hope they will agree to that”. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will square-off Saturday in a prime time debate sponsored by ABC News in Partnership with the New Hampshire Union Leader.

The Democratic presidential candidates will face off on the debate stage again on Saturday at a time when national security has renewed importance following the San Bernardino attacks.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Sen. He also donated $403.20 to Ready PAC – an outside group then known as Ready for Hillary PAC that supports Clinton – in December 2013, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. Sanders’ marketing crusade cried foul on Friday., calling the suspension of its access to voter knowledge “a death sentence” in that may value it $600,000 a day in lost donations.

The Sanders campaign had a different interpretation of the decision to restore its access. And in September, protesters supporting O’Malley and Sanders, including a top O’Malley aide, protested outside the Democratic Party headquarters, demanding more debates. “I think this is a gloves-off moment”.

“The Democratic National Committee’s decision to attack the campaign that figured out the problem, rather than go after the vendor that made the mistake, is profoundly damaging to the party’s Democratic process”, said Charles Chamberlain, Democracy for America’s executive director.

A “democratic socialist”, Sanders has effectively become the vehicle for liberals unhappy with their options – and to some extent, President Barack Obama – building momentum this summer with huge rallies in liberal enclaves on the coasts and college towns like Madison, Wisconsin.