Sanders apologises to Clinton over campaign data breach

The party’s top two candidates described starkly different philosophies on national security, sparking some of the liveliest exchanges in Saturday night’s debate, just six weeks before the first nominating contest of the 2016 presidential election.

Clinton, the favourite to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, offered no evidence for her assertions.

“We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina”, he said referring to a few second delay in Clinton’s appearance on the Democratic presidential debate stage yesterday.

“What we’re asking for now is a thorough investigation with the DNC”, Sanders said on CBS.

“Yes, I apologize”, he said when asked about the controversy during the debate, but he renewed his criticism of the Democratic National Committee for freezing access to his own voter files until the issue was resolved late on Friday.

Sanders continues to hold a slight edge over Clinton among Democrats under 40, but Clinton leads by double digits among older voters.

Briggs said the average donation was under US$25, far below the FEC rule that requires a campaign to report who gave the money for donations over $US200.

Sanders’ campaign has suspended two more staffers who appear to be involved in downloading Clinton’s campaign data when a vendor’s firewall failed, making voter information available to rival camps in theDemocratic presidential primary.

“Let’s tell the truth, Martin”, Clinton chimed in. She’s already fighting the Republicans. “I mean, she made it up”. “We have to prevent the Republicans from rolling back the progress that we’ve made”.

The candidates took turns punching Trump, professing outrage at his fearmongering comments on immigrants particularly a call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.

“I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here in the U.S. and literally around the world that there is a ‘clash of civilisations, ‘ that there is some kind of Western plot or even ‘war against Islam, ‘ which then I believe fans the flames of radicalisation”, she alleged.

Republicans, of course, did not agree. “It’s what “leading from behind” is, I guess”, she said on Fox News Sunday. O’Malley has gained just one point of support following each debate.

Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri used an appearance on ABC to argue the candidate had been talking about Isis’s use of social media and not a specific video.

Former secretary of state Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders and ex-governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland pointed to a need to boost USA security, raise wages and protect women, minorities and the disadvantaged in a face-off in Manchester, New Hampshire. Overall, Trump’s name was mentioned in the Democratic Debate nine times, according to the Wall Street Journal.