Hillary Clinton is now 'perfectly willing' to debate Bernie Sanders again

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published 30 March 2016

On Monday, Hillary Clinton's campaign announced their candidate would only debate Democratic rival Bernie Sanders again if he would go "back to the [less negative] tone he said he was going to set early on."

Now, they've backtracked. The former secretary of state is "perfectly willing" to spar with Sanders again, Clinton's press secretary Brian Fallon said during an interview with Bloomberg Television's With All Due Respect on Tuesday. "If they can find a mutually agreeable date in the next couple of weeks before New York, I think it could happen," Fallon said.

For his part, Sanders has scoffed at the idea that he is running a particularly negative campaign. "I have tried my best to run a positive, issue-oriented campaign never making personal attacks against Hillary Clinton," he said in February in response to a charge similar to the one the Clinton camp alleged this week. "Talk about me running a negative campaign, that’s just absurd."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.