He’d enforce “all classification rules, and enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information” – a swipe at Clinton’s use of private e-mail when she was secretary of state – and would order the Joint Chiefs and federal agencies to review USA cyberdefenses, the campaign said.
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“Earlier in the year it seemed like Democrats might have a chance to win Florida by a wider margin than usual”, said Dean Debnam, the president of PPP.
A recent NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll found Trump leading among military and veteran voters, 55 percent to 36 percent. The candidates also took questions from an audience of veterans and active-duty troops gathered on the decommissioned USS Intrepid, which is now a floating museum in NY.
In Philadelphia today, Donald Trump was something he rarely is on the campaign trail: specific. He said he would ask generals for a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy the Islamic State, which controls large chunks of Syria and Iraq. Jeff Flake did not fare as well: 34.9 percent said they had a favorable or very favorable opinion of him.
“No, but when I do come up with a plan that I like and that perhaps agrees with mine, or maybe doesn’t, I may love what the generals come up with”, Trump responded.
Clinton said none of the emails she sent or received were marked top secret, secret or classified, the usual way such material is identified.
A recent Federal Bureau of Investigation report said one email account on the Clinton server was hacked in 2013.
As a businessman with no substantial national security experience, Trump was vague about how he is preparing for the enormous array of complex issues that would land on his desk as commander in chief. “An absolute rock steadiness mixed with strength to make the best decisions”, she told NBC News’ Matt Lauer during a candidate forum Wednesday night.
Trump, appearing after Clinton at the NBC/MSNBC forum, cited problems in the Middle East, China, and elsewhere that he blamed on the policies of President Obama and his former secretary of state, Clinton.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, and Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, will be at an 8 p.m. military affairs forum organized by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America advocacy group. While she’s articulated an anti-Islamic State plan that is more aggressive than Obama’s, she’s largely in line with the president on foreign policy.
The former first lady said she would do “everything in my power to” prevent attacks on USA soil.
Warning of global threats from terrorists and state actors alike, Trump advocated for a “state of the art missile defense system” and called for adding anti-ballistic missile technology to the Navy’s aging Ticonderoga-class cruisers. And a late morning address at Philadelphia’s Union League will outline his plans to eliminate deep military cuts, known as the “sequester”, enacted when Congress failed to reach a budget compromise in 2011.
The Republican nominee issued a list of 10 proposals to “update and upgrade America’s military”, before a speech in which he is expected to call for an end to the military “sequester” and an increase in spending on defense. “They view him as a danger and a risk”.
A senior adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share details ahead of the speech, said Trump would ensure the additional spending is fully paid for.
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The United States now spends more than $600 billion a year on the military, more than the next seven countries combined.
