Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are delivering dueling speeches today

Both top Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are laying out their visions for the country in major policy speeches on Thursday.

Clinton will be outlining a three-pronged strategy to “combat radical jihadism across the globe.” Sanders will invoke President Franklin D. Roosevelt to explain his “democratic socialist” ideals while also touching on his plan to “defeat” the jihadist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS.

Clinton, the frontrunner, will be speaking at 10:30 a.m. at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. Her remarks will be focused on foreign policy following recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the Middle East and Nigeria.

According to an email from a Clinton campaign aide, she’s going to lay out a “blueprint” for “countering ISIS and for the longer-term struggle to combat radical jihadism across the globe.” The aide said Clinton’s strategy is designed to “to achieve three overarching objectives.”

Clinton’s first objective will be to “defeat” ISIS. Her second goal is to “disrupt and dismantle the growing terrorist infrastructure that facilitates the flow of fighters, financing, arms and propaganda around the world.” The third objective of Clinton’s antiterrorism strategy is to “harden our defenses and those of our allies against external and homegrown threats.”

Sanders’ speech will take place at 2 p.m. at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The address has been in the works for some time and will feature his explanation of his self-described “democratic socialist” ideology. The campaign initially planned for Sanders to give this speech ahead of last Saturday’s Democratic debate in Iowa, but it was delayed due to his campaign schedule.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally at Cleveland State University in Ohio on Nov. 16. (Photo: Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters)

Sanders’ national press secretary, Symone Sanders, told Yahoo News he will be pointing to FDR as he explains “what democratic socialism means to him.”

“Sen. Sanders is going to outline a vision for America which calls upon the country to really implement what Franklin D. Roosevelt talked about, the second Bill of Rights,” Symone Sanders said. “So, that’s what he’s going to talk about. He’s going to talk about what democratic socialism means to him. You know, we’ve got a rigged economy kept in place by a system of corrupt campaign finance. … Bernie doesn’t believe that the billionaires are the only people who should be the quote-unquote ‘beneficiaries’ of the American dream.”

Sanders’ campaign decided to add a foreign policy component to the speech in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks. His senior strategist, Tad Devine, told the Wall Street Journal the campaign has considered having him deliver a speech that is fully focused on foreign policy, but it takes time to write a “serious speech on a serious topic.”

With his relentless focus on income inequality and other domestic issues, Sanders has battled the perception that he is not as prepared to address foreign policy as Clinton, a former secretary of state. However, Symone Sanders said he will outline a clear strategy to confront terrorism in his speech.

“He is also going to talk about national security issues,” Symone Sanders explained. “He’s going to discuss foreign affairs and how the world community can defeat the Islamic State.”