Politifact: Bernie's claim that his campaign didn't take Hillary's data is MOSTLY FALSE [View all]

[Cali_Democrat]

It might feel like pure inside baseball, but the data breach that gave the Bernie Sanders campaign staff access to some of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s voter information goes to the heart of modern elections.

At stake are the details that tell a campaign who is persuadable to the cause, and who’s likely to actually come out and vote.

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"As a result of a breach caused by the DNC vendor, not by us, information came into our campaign about the Clinton campaign," Sanders said Dec. 20, 2015.

"Magically," asked Todd?

"We didn't go out and take it," Sanders replied.

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Experts familiar with the Democratic voter data base say that the Sanders campaign would have gleaned valuable information. At the end of the day, they knew some things about the Clinton campaign that they hadn’t known before, even if they didn’t seek to crack into the Clinton data.

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We rate Sanders’ claim that the campaign didn’t "go out and take" information as Mostly False.


http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/22/bernie-s/Sanders-take-Clinton-voter-data/