Clinton ‘confident’ there will be another debate with Sanders
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said in an interview broadcast Sunday that she’s “confident” there will be another debate with rival Bernie Sanders.
{mosads}She told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” however, that she’s “not the one negotiating it.”
“That’s going on between our campaigns,” Clinton said. “And I do know my campaign has really been trying to get a time that Sen. Sanders’s campaign would agree with.
“We’ve offered dates, and we’ve done it over the last several weeks, so we’ve been trying to figure out when we could do this,” she added.
Clinton said “there’s a lot to talk about” since the last debate, including terror attacks in Brussels and Pakistan.
Clinton’s campaign on Saturday lashed out at the Vermont senator over the controversy surrounding efforts to set up another debate.
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement the Sanders campaign had rejected three separate proposed dates.
“The Sanders campaign needs to stop with the games,” Fallon said in the statement. “Over the course of the last week we have offered three specific dates for a debate in New York, all of which the Sanders campaign rejected.”
Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs responded, saying in a statement later Saturday that the dates proposed by Clinton’s team “don’t make a whole lot of sense.”
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