Clinton holds a 48% to 28% lead among Democrats. Bernie Sanders and former Gov. Martin O’Malley in the debate, hosted by ABC News, over national security, domestic policy and the big story owning the last 48 hours — Sanders’ campaign staff accessing Clinton’s voter data after a software breach.
Clinton rather preferred to talk at the Democratic debate about Donald Trump, the front-runner from the Republican party.
What could have been a disaster instead turned into the opportunity.
The Sanders campaign’s handling of the data breach this week emphasized the apparent disconnect between the candidate and his staff. His aides came out swinging on Friday after revelations that their staffers stole some of Clinton’s voter data, using a clumsy response by the Democratic National Committee to charge party leaders with favoritism and insinuate that her campaign also lifted some of their information.
“We want to be confident we can get to the bottom of how data is handled at the DNC”, Weaver told CNN Monday.
Clinton said her campaign was “distressed” when the news surfaced, but she quickly added: “I don’t think the American people are all that interested in this”. The DNC suspended Sanders’ access to crucial voter data information immediately following the incident. “What should have been done is there should have been a meeting between the teams, actually quietly”. “What we are going to do is expand Social Security benefits”.
Understanding that Trump is accusing Clinton of something that he himself is often culpable of, let us take a look at any basis for her comment and what it could mean for her campaign.
Sanders has always been a man with a near tunnel vision focus on his mission: Highlight the issues he has been talking about for years, income inequality, Wall Street and affordable healthcare. The campaign has focused heavily on the more liberal Eastern side of the state where Obama won the majority of his counties in 2008.
That didn’t keep his staff from pushing the fight.
Though there were moments of tension over national security in Saturday night’s debate, Sanders failed to score a clear hit on Clinton.
“I know where she went”. Nearby, Wasserman Schultz flatly said, “No, that’s not accurate”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts to supporters at the end of Saturday’s debate. He also blasted the “incompetence” the DNC’s Web vendor, saying it had dropped Clinton data into his campaign’s lap a couple of times. According to multiple people with knowledge of the call, the senator was livid.
Sen. Sanders insisted that “the issues that the American people want, discussed” included that “we’re the only major country on Earth not guaranteeing health care to all people”. “It doesn’t show a disconnect”.
“[Record turnout] would be a sign that Sanders’ younger voters and his constituency is showing up”, Wepsen cautioned, believing that a super scenario will show that “the party establishment, moderates, and centrists, will be there for Clinton“.