Hillary Clinton Challenges Bernie Sanders to ‘Join the Democrats’ on Gun Control

He said that the Democratic Party’s decision to temporarily suspend his campaign’s access to the strategically crucial database was “an egregious act”.

Hillary Clinton said she accepts an apology from Sanders for the actions of his staff in a data breach, urging voters and the media to “move on”.

That could have kept Sanders’ campaign from accessing the important data into the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucus.

“They’re now suspended until we complete our review”, Weaver said in the spin room after the debate, referring to the two suspended staffers.

“We also need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that Trump is sending around the world don’t fall on receptive ears”.

But a fissure over a Sanders-Democratic National Committee campaign flap was quickly dismissed, before moderators David Muir and Martha Raddatz went on to national security and ISIS. But he also laid blame at the feet of the DNC for cutting off the campaign’s access to their voter file, saying that the party “arbitrarily, without discussing it with us, shut off our access to our own information, crippling our campaign”. “I apologize”, he said.

Clinton and Sanders, her closest challenger, entered Saturday night’s debate in the midst of one of their fiercest fights – about the campaign itself rather than a national or worldwide issue.

But most of the night was centered around national security, with each of the candidates laying out loose plans of how they planned to combat ISIS, one key disagreement between Clinton and Sanders being when and how they planned to deal with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Clinton headed up a healthcare reform effort that ultimately failed in her husband’s first term, which she said Saturday still scars her. She was the original first lady to have her own office in the West Wing.

U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton vowed on Saturday not to raise taxes on middle-class Americans if elected next November in a populist push to position herself for a general election battle on pocket-book issues.

Clinton and Sanders also disagreed on the extent to which public colleges and university tuition should be free.

He is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter.

“We now finally are where we need to be”, she said.

For the Americans not on the road ahead of the holidays or watching NFL football, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley provided the entertainment, engaging in a substantive if somewhat dry policy forum.

The debate, lasting more than two hours, was the third for Democrats and was expected to have low viewership given that it was scheduled on the last weekend before Christmas when many Americans have turned their attention to the holidays.

“We will not get the support on the ground in Syria to dislodge [IS] if the fighters there – who are not associated with [IS], but whose principal goal is getting rid of Assad – don’t believe there is a political diplomatic channel that is ongoing”. Acknowledging the odd moment, Clinton simply said, “Sorry”.

The former first lady, however, stressed that most of her campaign contributions are from small donors.

Indeed, if Clinton does win the Democratic nomination, expect her to make a case just like this to Bernie Sanders supporters.

Recounting her experience as a senator after 9/11, Clinton said she gives credit to former President George W. Bush for reaching out to the Muslim community to say, “we are in this together”.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, Martin”, Sanders said.