The event served as a preview for voters of the candidates’ trio of debates later this fall. The editorial lists her tenure as a senator and secretary of state as evidence of Clinton’s governing success.
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Clinton speaks with Today show co-anchor Matt Lauer at the NBC commander-in-chief forum, where she was grilled about her use of a personal email server while she was secretary of state.
She also said there was no evidence her email server was hacked. “Clinton has made mistakes and displayed bad judgment, but her errors are plainly in a different universe than her opponent’s”.
“I think that principally he believes in America”, Wolfington said. “I took it very seriously”. Another 3 percent said they would support someone else and 1 percent said they probably would not vote.
She vowed never again to send ground troops into Iraq, adding the same goes for Syria.
The event brought together the meticulously prepared Clinton and Trump, a NY businessman whose brash, freewheeling style has allowed him to dominate the headlines for months. His campaign says they include asking Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester that has reduced the military budget.
Throughout the Republican primary, Trump insisted that anyone in the country illegally would be deported under his administration.
“It’s a massive problem”, Trump said during an NBC forum on the military, when asked by a veteran about the problem of sexual assault in the armed forces. Trump’s warm words about Putin have troubled some of his fellow Republicans who see the Russian leader as a threat to American allies in Europe.
Appearing on the second half of the hour-long show, Trump quickly abandoned Lauer’s entreaties to avoid attacking his opponent and focus on what he would do if elected president on November 8.
Trump expressed support for the sequester in interviews in 2013 even describing them as too small but seemed to suggest at the time that military spending should be exempt.
He called for increasing the active Army to 540,000 troops, boosting Marine Corps. battalions and bolstering the Air Force’s fighter aircraft and the Navy’s ships and submarines.
Overall, 47 per cent of voters who are now serving or have previously served in the United States military said they would not be confident in Trump’s ability to serve as an effective commander-in-chief of the U.S. military.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Clinton’s camp took note of Trump’s reported haul, sending out a fundraising solicitation from campaign manager Robby Mook that warned Clinton was falling short of her September targets. 13 percent said it is “very likely” or “somewhat likely” they will not vote at all. “If I win, I don’t want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is”. “Unlike Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has experience in actual governance, a record of service and a willingness to delve into real policy”.
McConnell was asked at his weekly press conference if he feels confident that Republican nominee Trump can be trusted “with his finger on the nuclear button”.
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A sizeable number of these voters say they would not be confident in Clinton or Trump’s ability to be an effective commander-in-chief of the nation’s military, though a slight majority would be confident in Trump (53 per cent), the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll finds.
