Military veterans listen to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum on Wednesday.
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Trump was referring to the resignation of Finance Minister Luis Videgaray, who reportedly lobbied hard to invite Trump to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto last week. The event served as a preview for voters of the candidates’ trio of debates later this fall.
To put it in proper perspective, former Republican nominee Mitt Romney carried almost 40 percent of the Latino vote in Florida in 2012 – and he still lost the state to President Obama.
Still, Clinton maintained she never mishandled classified information.
“You know and I know, classified material is designated, it is marked, there is a header so there is no dispute at all that what is being communicated to or from someone that has that access is marked classified”, Clinton told the veteran.
“It was a mistake to have a personal account, I would certainly not do it again“, said Clinton.
That means more scrutiny on Clinton’s support for the Iraq war and on Benghazi, particularly after Clinton said the U.S.
Fielding questions from the audience, Clinton insisted that none of the emails she sent or received had a header that clearly marked “top secret”.
Trump said during the forum that he was “totally against the war in Iraq”, because he anxious it would destabilize the Middle East. In one, in 2002, media personality Howard Stern asked him if he favored the pending invasion, Trump answered: “Yeah, I guess so”. “I’d like you to tell our veterans and our people at home why you are prepared for the role of commander in chief”, said Lauer.
“So many voters are just really unhappy with both political parties and don’t want to be either a Democrat or a Republican because they see both parties as flawed”, said Tom Jensen, Public Policy Polling director. Trump was never asked to defend his proposals to infiltrate American mosques and spy on predominantly Muslim neighborhoods. Putin has returned in kind, calling Trump “a colourful and talented man.” “The man has very strong control over a country”, Trump said. But Trump was unapologetic on Wednesday night, saying he was happy to take a compliment from Putin. “If he says great things about me, I’m gonna say great things about him”.
She drew the line on ground troops to fight ISIS. Asked to square his request for military options with that criticism, Trump said simply: “They’ll probably be different generals”. It was aimed at rebutting Clinton’s arguments that she would be best positioned to lead the military and reassuring Republicans who have openly anxious that his provocative statements might undermine US alliances.
“I don’t understand the reasons for it”, she said.
“I have a plan, but I don’t wanna be, look – I have a very substantial chance of winning”, he stammered, doing his best Fred Armisen (as Nicholas Fehn) impression from SNL.
After Mr Trump announced Tuesday that 88 retired United States generals and admirals had endorsed him, Mrs Clinton’s campaign replied that 95 support her.
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Trying to emphasize his military support, Trump’s campaign released a letter on Tuesday from 88 retired generals and admirals citing an urgent need for a “course correction” in America’s national security policy.
