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Clinton vows to defeat Islamic State if elected president

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, the Republican frontrunner pinned blame for the deadly Syrian conflict and the rise of the Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri group in Iraq and Syria on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama. “Everything she does is like theatrical”, Trump said as he waved his arms to mock Clinton.

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Clinton worked the over-flowing rally crowd well Friday, and she departed after a roughly half-hour program to work another crowd: donors at the home of billionaire George Kaiser.

“I don’t think he has the right temperament”, Mr Trump told Fox News Sunday.

Before Clinton’s speech at the union hall, Missouri Republican Party Chairman John Hancock issued a statement calling into question her commitment to organized labor.

“The ridiculous position of radical right Republicans to oppose the Medicaid expansion is so immoral in that it denies 200,000 people health care in Oklahoma for the reason only that they don’t like the president”, said Walters, a member of Clinton’s Oklahoma leadership team.

A November Sooner Poll showed Clinton leading Bernie Sanders in Oklahoma’s Democratic primary by about 46 percent to 12 percent.

She joked: “I know that you don’t get many Democratic candidates running for president in Oklahoma”. I don’t think he’s got the right judgment.

“She actually presents things in a factual manner”, Robertson said of Clinton.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition at Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on December 3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. She said one thing has become evident over the past 35 years: “Our economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House”.

As her chances of becoming the first woman to be nominated by a major political party improve, many women are considering how much gender should play into their decisions to embrace Clinton’s candidacy – or not. “She talks about me being unsafe, she’s killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity”.

In a call to “acknowledge and combat” climate change, she offered both at the same time.

“I want us to have a national infrastructure bank where we are going to put more money into building and repairing our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our airports…our rail systems”, Clinton says.

“He’s so very bad, he makes Ted Cruz look like a liberal saint”, she concluded.

“I don’t think President Obama gets the praise he deserves” for the economic recovery he ushered in after inheriting the 2008 recession, Clinton said. “When you take a look at the way he has dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there like a, you know, honestly, like a bit of a maniac”.

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Oklahoma’s presidential primary elections will be held March 1.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters during a campaign stop at a union hall on Friday Dec. 11 2015 in St. Louis