Sanders campaign suspends 2 more staffers following allegations it accessed Clinton data

The campaign fired its data director this week after finding that he improperly accessed Clinton’s files in a voter database owned by the Democratic National Committee and managed by an outside vendor.

But the controversy continued into Saturday – and Saturday night. “When we look at these complex questions I wish it could be either-or”, she said.

Tonight it was Mr. Sanders who was surrounded by a scandal, after his campaign illegally accessed data belonging to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.

Sanders trails Clinton nationally, but has the slight edge over the former Secretary of State in New Hampshire.

The timing of the debate could bolster Sanders’ argument. Sanders’ camp called all this overreaction and proof of the DNC’s long-running favoritism toward Clinton. His campaign said after the debate it had suspended two more aides.

“In this case, our staff did the wrong thing”, Sanders admitted. One of them has been fired, others are being investigated. “I said I want to be the president for the struggling, for the surviving and the successful”. But Sanders then issued his direct apology. On foreign policy, Sanders said he didn’t support regime change like Clinton does.

The candidates once again struck different tones on gun rights – with Clinton saying more citizens purchasing firearms wouldn’t help matters and Sanders focusing on a search for “consensus” on gun regulations.

Sanders landed his biggest blow against Clinton when he assailed her support for ousting Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi and her push for a political end to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s tenure.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, Martin”, Sanders said. He interjected: “For crying out loud”. “Instead, we’re listening to the bickering back and forth”. “We now have that”, Clinton said.

Sanders, who has made addressing income inequality the cornerstone of his campaign, pledged to invest in free access to higher education and health care while also reigning in the political influence of the financial industry. “We lose 33,000 people a year to gun violence. It is not Assad who is attacking the United States – it is ISIS”. “They are going to people showing them video of Donald Trump insulting Muslims”. But even if general-election debates aren’t that important, it’s safe to say she’ll do her homework. “The first task is to bring countries together to destroy Isis”. The shared voter file is vital to reach out to potential supporters just as voting is to begin in Iowa Feb. 1.

Clinton, 68, was in one of her finest moments when asked: “Should corporate America love Hillary Clinton?”.

Like both Presidents Bush and Obama, Clinton can not imagine a world in which the United States is not a global policeman. Katz has said that ISIS follows “everything Donald Trump says” and points to Trump’s proposed Muslim ban as proof that America hates Muslims.

The debate ended on a much softer note, however, as Sanders congratulated Clinton for “redefining” the role of First Lady.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday fiercely rejected claims by Hillary Clinton that footage of his anti-Muslim comments was being used for ISIS recruitment videos. The moderator had already started to ask Bernie Sanders a question when the crowd erupted in applause upon her entrance, drowning out the query. “I have the back bone to take on Wall Street that Senator Clinton never has”.

“I think we did a lot of good tonight”, he said. “We should move on because I don’t think the American people are all that interested in this”.

If Clinton does attack, Sanders could try to turn his response into an effective broadside against the entire Democratic establishment – after Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, accused the DNC of tipping the scales in favor of Clinton on Friday.

“I think he laid out a policy to deal with worldwide terrorism but not getting us into a never-ending quagmire”, he said. “And somebody like Trump comes along… and meanwhile, the rich get richer”.

“He is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter”.

But the dust-up over the DNC data breach could give Sanders new openings.

But for now, Clinton appears to be well positioned to ease through the Democratic primary and take the fight to her preferred targets in the Republican Party.