Bernie Sanders

Hillary Clinton and other Democratic presidential hopefuls used Donald Trump as a political bogeyman on Dec. 18 to highlight their own calls to defeat jihadist extremists without the bigotry and bluster brandished by their top Republican rival.

U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton played defense over her 2003 vote backing the U.S. invasion of Iraq and inched away from President Barack Obama on Syria and the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants during a contentious debate on Nov. 14. 

Jeremy "Jez" Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are very much alike, and so are their ambitions. Corbyn wants to lead Britain's Labour Party into the next election and become prime minister; Sanders wants to win the Democratic Party nomination and become the next president of the United States. And then each man plans to turn his country sharply to the left.

One of America's most liberal senators, Vermont's Bernie Sanders, said April 29 that he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination, presenting a challenge to Hillary Clinton from the party's left flank.