{"id":245550,"date":"2016-05-24T05:32:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/clinton-declines-to-debate-sanders-in-california\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T05:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:32:44","slug":"clinton-declines-to-debate-sanders-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/clinton-declines-to-debate-sanders-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton declines to debate Sanders in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"110\">\n<p><strong>US Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has declined to debate rival Bernie Sanders, ahead of the state&#8217;s delegate-rich June 7 primary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have declined Fox News\u2019 invitation to participate in a debate in California,\u201d Clinton\u2019s top campaign spokeswoman said in a statement on Monday. \u201cAs we have said previously, we plan to compete hard in the remaining primary states, particularly California, while turning out attention to the threat a Donald Trump presidency poses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that Hillary Clinton\u2019s time is best spent campaigning and meeting directly with voters across California and preparing for a general election campaign that will ensure the White House remains in Democratic hands,\u201d Clinton\u2019s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri said continued.<\/p>\n<p>The senator from Vermont had been pushing the former secretary of state to debate before the primary in California, which offers 475 pledged Democratic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/24\/467130\/Clinton-debate-Sanders-California\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has declined to debate rival Bernie Sanders, ahead of the state&#8217;s delegate-rich June 7 primary. \u201cWe have declined Fox News\u2019 invitation to participate in a debate in California,\u201d Clinton\u2019s top campaign spokeswoman said in a statement on Monday. \u201cAs we have said previously, we plan to compete hard in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}