US Democratic debate: Clinton makes ‘Isis recruiter’ jibe at Trump

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts to supporters at the end of Saturday’s debate.

O’Malley looked at how several US-backed regime changes caused chaos, such as Libya in 2011 when Clinton was secretary of state.

When asked what Clinton was referring to Saturday night, campaign spokesman Jesse Ferguson pointed Business Insider to a comment from Rita Katz, an expert on ISIS propaganda and co-founder of the SITE Intelligence group.

On NBC’s Meet The Press, Trump dismissed the allegation. While Clinton also advocated for leaving some gun control to the states, she still advocated for federal gun control efforts, and she never said “we don’t need federal standards”.

Mrs Clinton and Mr Sanders, her closest challenger, entered the debate in the midst of one of their fiercest fights – about the campaign itself rather than a national or global issue.

Many were anticipating Sanders’s response to the data breach of Clinton’s campaign, which Clinton’s staffers called an “egregious breach of data and ethics”.

The tensions between the Clinton campaign, the Sanders campaign and the Democratic National Committee have recently been at their highest point, thanks largely to a data breach that left the Sanders campaign accused of stealing the Clinton campaign’s data.

“The greed of Wall Street is destroying this economy and is destroying the lives of millions of Americans”, Sanders said.

However, among the 48% of all Democratic voters who say they are already certain of their vote and aren’t going to change their mind, 59% prefer Clinton; 32% back Sanders, and nine percent (9%) choose O’Malley. His campaign said after the debate it had suspended two more aides.

“Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole, and now a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety”, Sanders said. Instead, he chose to forgo the political opportunity, just as he did in the first debate when he dismissed controversy over Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.

Sanders, Clinton and O’Malley all stressed the importance of taking on ISIS.

While there was broad agreement among the Democratic contenders that the US should not launch a ground war to defeat the Islamic State, they differed in the tactics they would take and whether the nation should seek regime change in Syria. “I think in Syria the primary focus now must be on destroying ISIS and working over the years to get rid of Assad. But before you do that, you’ve got to think about what happens the day after”.

Clinton said “the first line of defense against radicalization is in the Muslim community”, and that all Americans should work with them.

Trump quickly hit back at the Democratic frontrunner, asking for an apology: “She should apologize …”

Writes Goodman: “Bernie Sanders successfully differentiated himself between Clinton’s hawkish foreign policy and failures, and I explain here why I’m choosing him over Clinton or Trump”. This is a result, he said, of “flip-flopping” by Sanders and Clinton.

“I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way”.

Pace reported from Washington.