Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Wednesday, “I do believe that Donald Trump is growing in his understanding of these issues and I think that he’s beginning to get more and more people around him that have a depth of understanding as to the complexities and I’m watching this evolve”, he said.
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The political rivals faced tough questions from NBC’s Matt Lauer as well as veterans and active-duty troops in the audience.
Later on Wednesday, the election opponents are to make back-to-back appearances at an NBC “commander in chief” forum in New York, Clinton first, followed by Trump.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he will expand all areas of the USA military if he wins November’s election.
Among voters overall, a smaller majority (52 per cent) said they would not be confident in her ability to serve.
Democrat Clinton has spent much of the summer trying to paint Trump as ill-prepared to be commander in chief and too unpredictable to make decisions that put American service members in harm’s way.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about national security at the Union League in Philadelphia, Sept. 7, 2016.
Despite his words to the contrary on the campaign trail, Trump said he favored invading Iraq one month before Congress voted to authorize the use of military force and continued to praise the invasion in its first months.
“The answer is yes”, McConnell told reporters. The newspaper said it hasn’t backed a Democratic candidate for the presidency since before World War II. President Barack Obama comes in at a close second with 25%.
While GOP candidates are often seen by voters as having an advantage on military and national security issues, Trump is far from a traditional Republican.
The military has become “so depleted”, he said, that it requires a large-scale build-up, including troop increases and more aircrafts and ships.
Among his proposals, Trump says he will ask Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester – part of across-the-board cuts to federal agencies that Republicans say have hobbled the readiness of United States armed forces – and will submit a new budget to bolster the size of the military, swelling active-duty Army personnel to 540,000, up from around 473,000. “In the current year, we are spending $548 billion – a cut of 10% in real inflation-adjusted dollars”, said Trump.
There were flashes of the old Donald Trump, of course – such as when he railed against nation-building and military entanglements in the Middle East. This includes the preparation of derivative works of, or the incorporation of such content into other works.
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