Neither New Yorker vying for the presidency is expected to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks with a visit to the site where two hijacked airliners took down the World Trade Center towers and killed thousands of people.
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Clinton, meanwhile, accused Trump of insulting America’s veterans and pressing risky military plans around the globe. In 2008, Barack Obama and John McCain made a joint appearance at the site in NY. “I look forward to Hillary Clinton continuing to implode in front of the American people”, he said.
Top experts on the issue are calling on both campaigns to end the tactic before the line between the military and politics is blurred any further. They’ll want to set the tone by compelling the president-elect to endorse a federal $15 minimum as a sign of respect and good faith. “It is time to break with the bitter failures of the past, and to embrace a new American future”.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump resumed their forays into battleground states Tuesday – this time in the South, where they tried to appeal to the region’s military and retirees with vows to make America safer and provide better health care. The ad, which features former Georgia Sen.
Kaine also chided Trump for his meeting last week with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, with whom he later entered into an online spat over whether they discussed if Mexico would pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is talking up his own national security credentials as he begins a speech on the topic in Wilmington, North Carolina. And his son is a member of the U.S. Marine Corps based at Camp Lejeune. The most egregious examples were at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Only hours before, at a Tampa rally, Clinton had called him “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States”.
“I’m talking about general, by the way, she says things about me that are frightful”, Trump said.
Clinton, who has had a standoffish relationship with the traveling press that covers her, spoke to reporters aboard her new campaign plane Tuesday for the second day in a row.
Trump started by focusing on Clinton’s policies as Secretary of State.
“So dark, so divisive, so risky”, Clinton said about Trump, at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
The forum in NY will allow both campaigns to shift their messages to national security, a major topic for voters given the threat of Islamist militants, China’s military activities in the South China Sea, and nuclear-armed North Korea’s ballistic missile tests.
Republicans appear to be rallying behind their nominee for the White House, Manhattan billionaire Donald Trump.
She also upbraided him for saying he would have stayed on his plane and left China if he were treated as President Barack Obama was last week, when he was forced to exit Air Force One from a rear door. Until those problems are resolved, he said he would allow veterans to seek treatment at private doctors or hospitals free of charge.
Trump and Clinton are aggressively courting veterans this week ahead of a national security forum scheduled for Wednesday evening. Trump has been trying to claw back the support of veterans after a series of gaffes which Clinton was quick to use as ammo.
“I think we’re up to 89, but who’s counting?” she quipped, noting how several Republican national security figures have openly endorsed her or oppose Trump. She pointed to her endorsements from retired Marine General John Allen, who blasted Trump at the Democratic National Committee, and former Central Intelligence Agency deputy director Mike Morell.
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“I am quite taken aback by [Trump’s] foundation making a political contribution to the Florida AG, who was just about to investigate Trump University and then ending the investigation”, she said.
