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| Democratic debate: focus shifts from Sanders team's data breach to national security – live | |
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| 1.07am GMT01:07 | |
| The pre-debate moderator chatter begins! The talking heads are excited, and already describing Bernie Sanders as the frontrunner in New Hampshire, if also the 31-point underdog around the US. | |
| They point out that eight years ago Hillary Clinton had a +30-point lead over some senator named Barack Obama. And they do have a point that Sanders enjoys exceptionally strong support from a loud minority of progressives around the country. | |
| Kshama Sawant, a Seattle city council member with the Socialist Alternative party, has launched an independent organization to back Sanders. My colleague Chris McGreal points out that Sawant spearheaded the $15 minimum wage law that passed in Seattle earlier this year. She just won re-election, and thanked Sanders for the victory. | |
| Updated at 1.11am GMT | |
| 12.51am GMT00:51 | |
| T-minus nine minutes till ABC stops airing college football and turns to what Americans really want on a Saturday night: policy wonkery from the three people who want to run the United States. | |
| Outside the college hall, the Guardian’s DC chief Dan Roberts found some motley protesters who can barely contain themselves with excitement. | |
| 12.47am GMT00:47 | |
| Self-declared democratic socialist, enemy of the big banks and … friend of the NRA? Not quite, but Bernie Sanders may be on the defensive over gun control tonight, despite his D-minus grade from the pro-gun group. | |
| My colleague Sabrina Siddiqui looks at how the Vermont senator’s voting record could haunt him in a year of high-profile shootings and the long-awaited return of gun control to the debate stage. | |
| Sanders has struggled to explain his support for a bill in 2005 that granted legal protections to gun manufacturers. Attacked by Clinton and O’Malley during the last debate, Sanders said he voted for “a large and complicated bill”. Clinton countered by pointing out that she had voted against the same measure and had not found it “that complicated”. | |
| Other votes from Sanders’s past also put him at odds with the majority of Democrats and instead on the side of the NRA. | |
| In 2006, as a member of the House of Representatives, Sanders voted in favor of a bill that would have made it harder for law enforcement to revoke the licenses of gun dealers who violated federal laws. Although the measure was bipartisan, the majority of Democrats,123, voted against. Sixty-three voted for it. | |
| There was also a House vote in 1993 on an amendment that would have established a loophole in the waiting period for background checks. Under the amendment, backed by Sanders, a gun purchase would proceed by default if the background check was not completed within one business day. The amendment was to be part of the Brady Bill, landmark legislation that mandated federal background checks. Ultimately, it was tweaked to a three-day period. | |
| Related: Sanders gets defensive on gun control as Clinton tightens hold ahead of debate | |
| 12.36am GMT00:36 | 12.36am GMT00:36 |
| The Democratic race already got a little a personal this week, when Bernie Sanders accused Hillary Clinton of facilitating extremism in Libya this week. | The Democratic race already got a little a personal this week, when Bernie Sanders accused Hillary Clinton of facilitating extremism in Libya this week. |
| He told my colleague Dan Roberts in a pre-debate interview she voted for intervention “without worrying, I think, about what happened the day after and the kind of instability and the rise of Isis that we have seen in Libya.” | He told my colleague Dan Roberts in a pre-debate interview she voted for intervention “without worrying, I think, about what happened the day after and the kind of instability and the rise of Isis that we have seen in Libya.” |
| “Regime change without worrying about what happens the day after you get rid of the dictator does not make a lot of sense,” Sanders said. | “Regime change without worrying about what happens the day after you get rid of the dictator does not make a lot of sense,” Sanders said. |
| “I voted against the war in Iraq ... Secretary Clinton voted for that war. She was proud to have been involved in regime change in Libya, with [Muammar] Gaddafi, without worrying, I think, about what happened the day after and the kind of instability and the rise of Isis that we have seen in Libya.” | “I voted against the war in Iraq ... Secretary Clinton voted for that war. She was proud to have been involved in regime change in Libya, with [Muammar] Gaddafi, without worrying, I think, about what happened the day after and the kind of instability and the rise of Isis that we have seen in Libya.” |
| Clinton has previously defended her role in airstrikes against Gaddafi in 2011, arguing he was a “murderous dictator ... who had American blood on his hands” and there was pressure for US action from European and Arab allies. | Clinton has previously defended her role in airstrikes against Gaddafi in 2011, arguing he was a “murderous dictator ... who had American blood on his hands” and there was pressure for US action from European and Arab allies. |
| Related: Sanders: Clinton's pursuit of 'regime change' in Libya helped rise of Isis | Related: Sanders: Clinton's pursuit of 'regime change' in Libya helped rise of Isis |
| 12.26am GMT00:26 | 12.26am GMT00:26 |
| The Democratic National Committee, apparently not content to schedule a debate at the odd hour of 8pm the Saturday before Christmas – Sanders and O’Malley have complained – has also decided to deter the press by telling them to congregate in an ice-skating rink. | The Democratic National Committee, apparently not content to schedule a debate at the odd hour of 8pm the Saturday before Christmas – Sanders and O’Malley have complained – has also decided to deter the press by telling them to congregate in an ice-skating rink. |
| My colleague Lauren Gambino tweets rink-side, where debate officials have handed hand warmers. | My colleague Lauren Gambino tweets rink-side, where debate officials have handed hand warmers. |
| It's as cold as it look. #DemDebate DemDebate pic.twitter.com/HhT2r1eqvG | It's as cold as it look. #DemDebate DemDebate pic.twitter.com/HhT2r1eqvG |
| 12.15am GMT00:15 | 12.15am GMT00:15 |
| What’s this voter database kerfuffle about, anyway? My colleague Ben Jacobs takes apart the odd political scandal, and rules that everybody – Clinton, Sanders, the Democratic party – comes out a loser: | What’s this voter database kerfuffle about, anyway? My colleague Ben Jacobs takes apart the odd political scandal, and rules that everybody – Clinton, Sanders, the Democratic party – comes out a loser: |
| The drama started on Wednesday morning, when several Sanders campaign staffers discovered that due to a software glitch in the voter file shared by all Democratic presidential campaigns, they could see proprietary data of the Clinton campaign. | The drama started on Wednesday morning, when several Sanders campaign staffers discovered that due to a software glitch in the voter file shared by all Democratic presidential campaigns, they could see proprietary data of the Clinton campaign. |
| The staffers started exploring. In particular, they looked at the support scores the Clinton campaign had compiled in different states. This is proprietary information generated when a campaign, based on polling, modeling and demographic data, estimates the likelihood of a given voter’s support. | The staffers started exploring. In particular, they looked at the support scores the Clinton campaign had compiled in different states. This is proprietary information generated when a campaign, based on polling, modeling and demographic data, estimates the likelihood of a given voter’s support. |
| The Sanders staffers said that they were only looking at the information in order to test the vulnerabilities of the system. The DNC and the Clinton campaign insisted they were looking to take advantage of the glitch. | The Sanders staffers said that they were only looking at the information in order to test the vulnerabilities of the system. The DNC and the Clinton campaign insisted they were looking to take advantage of the glitch. |
| It is likely that aspects of both answers are correct. Political staffers are trained to be aggressive and that it’s always safer to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Without any effort, the Sanders staffers were given a rare window into the Clinton campaign’s internal efforts. It would have been hard to resist. | It is likely that aspects of both answers are correct. Political staffers are trained to be aggressive and that it’s always safer to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Without any effort, the Sanders staffers were given a rare window into the Clinton campaign’s internal efforts. It would have been hard to resist. |
| The Clinton campaign claimed that “our data was stolen”, but that doesn’t seem to have been the case. What the Sanders staffers did was more like rifling through someone’s belongings and eyeballing each object – before putting it back. | The Clinton campaign claimed that “our data was stolen”, but that doesn’t seem to have been the case. What the Sanders staffers did was more like rifling through someone’s belongings and eyeballing each object – before putting it back. |
| Such actions were unprecedented, though, and should embarrass the Sanders campaign. Even if it wasn’t an intentional hack, it represented remarkably bad judgment. | Such actions were unprecedented, though, and should embarrass the Sanders campaign. Even if it wasn’t an intentional hack, it represented remarkably bad judgment. |
| And then the DNC overreacted and cut off the Sanders campaign’s access to the voter file. Every list of voters to target comes out of the voter file, whether it is intended to find volunteers, identify supporters or raise money. Every bit of data a campaign collects goes back into the voter file. | And then the DNC overreacted and cut off the Sanders campaign’s access to the voter file. Every list of voters to target comes out of the voter file, whether it is intended to find volunteers, identify supporters or raise money. Every bit of data a campaign collects goes back into the voter file. |
| It is as essential to a campaign as electricity is to any household. In an unprecedented move, the DNC pulled the plug. | It is as essential to a campaign as electricity is to any household. In an unprecedented move, the DNC pulled the plug. |
| Related: Democratic debate: candidates to clash amid data scandal that hurts all involved | Related: Democratic debate: candidates to clash amid data scandal that hurts all involved |
| 11.45pm GMT23:45 | 11.45pm GMT23:45 |
| Live from Manchester, New Hampshire, it’s debate night! Welcome to our live coverage of the third Democratic presidential debate, and thanks for joining us. | Live from Manchester, New Hampshire, it’s debate night! Welcome to our live coverage of the third Democratic presidential debate, and thanks for joining us. |
| Tonight’s debate is at St Anselm College, a Catholic liberal arts school where finals just ended, freeing undergrads for the holidays. No such luck for the three Democratic contenders for president, who’ve been called away from their families to face each other and a televised test on foreign affairs and America. | Tonight’s debate is at St Anselm College, a Catholic liberal arts school where finals just ended, freeing undergrads for the holidays. No such luck for the three Democratic contenders for president, who’ve been called away from their families to face each other and a televised test on foreign affairs and America. |
| But while the Democrats shared some good cheer in their first two debates, don’t expect the holiday spirit to make an appearance tonight. The Democratic race took a strange and dramatic turn this week, when staffers for the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, progressives’ beloved anti-Scrooge, exploited a voter database glitch to look at proprietary data of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The Democratic National Committee suspended Sanders from using the critical shared database, Sanders sued, and the DNC backed down. | But while the Democrats shared some good cheer in their first two debates, don’t expect the holiday spirit to make an appearance tonight. The Democratic race took a strange and dramatic turn this week, when staffers for the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, progressives’ beloved anti-Scrooge, exploited a voter database glitch to look at proprietary data of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The Democratic National Committee suspended Sanders from using the critical shared database, Sanders sued, and the DNC backed down. |
| Staffers for Clinton, the presidential candidate of Christmas past, accused the rival campaign of stealing, and everybody came out bruised, confused and feeling hostile. Third candidate Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, was somewhere off to the side, doing something down at 3%. | Staffers for Clinton, the presidential candidate of Christmas past, accused the rival campaign of stealing, and everybody came out bruised, confused and feeling hostile. Third candidate Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, was somewhere off to the side, doing something down at 3%. |
| Clinton leads Sanders 56% to 28% nationally, but trails him 47% to 45% in New Hampshire, according to poll averages. Their duel (truel?) with O’Malley, over national security, gun control, foreign affairs and more, is slated to start at 8pm ET. | Clinton leads Sanders 56% to 28% nationally, but trails him 47% to 45% in New Hampshire, according to poll averages. Their duel (truel?) with O’Malley, over national security, gun control, foreign affairs and more, is slated to start at 8pm ET. |
| Along for the ride this evening here at Guardian US are: | Along for the ride this evening here at Guardian US are: |
| Updated at 12.00am GMT | Updated at 12.00am GMT |