When Hillary Clinton arrived at her brand-new campaign plane, she greeted crew members, climbed aboard and then made a surprise move: a beeline to the dozens of journalists seated in the back.
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Clinton and Trump have clashed repeatedly over foreign policy, but their battle rose to a new level Wednesday night when the two were separately grilled over their national security credentials. Lauer’s NBC colleague, Lester Holt, is scheduled to moderate the first debate on September 26. Numerous questions by moderator Matt Lauer and veterans from the audience were about her email woes.
“She’s being decimated by the media”. Allan Saxe, a political science professor at the University of Texas, noted that Dallas County voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. “No one’s really had to deal with that in a presidential debate before”.
His words caused Clinton to ask what Ronald Reagan, the late beloved leader of the conservative movement, would think about the GOP’s current presidential pick, especially one who offers more compliments for aggressive Russian President Vladimir Putin than our own president. Even Wallace, who said fact-checking wasn’t his job, during a primary campaign debate challenged a Trump claim of potential cost savings with a graphic and admonition: “Your numbers don’t add up, sir”. “I find it frustrating, but it is just part of the landscape that we live in and we just keep forging ahead”.
“That’s how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives sacrificing for our country”, she scoffed. “But certainly in that system he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader”.
The exchange could well be the first time in living memory that a candidate appeared to side with an American global adversary over a sitting president.
Hillary Clinton will convene a bipartisan meeting with national security experts and former officials on terrorism on Friday in New York City, the Democratic nominee said on Thursday.
Trump was not done with his rejection of political norms, making comments that could be interpreted as criticizing the military.
“What you didn’t hear from Donald Trump last night was any plan to take on ISIS”, Clinton told reporters, using an acronym for the group.
Asked to square his request for military options with his harsh criticism of the current crop of generals, Trump said simply: “They’ll probably be different generals”.
“We’re absolutely committed to electing Democrats up and down the ballot”, DNC spokesman Walter Garcia said Monday, pointing to the Houston office and trip to Texas on Tuesday by Anne Holton, the wife of vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine.
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“I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing that I received”, she said. I want to defeat them. “Our leaders did not follow what they were recommending”.
