Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton calls her Republican rival Donald Trump unpatriotic for “trash talking” US generals and called his candidacy a threat to the United States.
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Suffolk found Trump with the support of 44% of likely North Carolina voters, a statistically insignificant three points better than Clinton’s 41%. Now all eyes on the presidential debate. Perhaps, as The New York Times suggested, he was unprepared, or maybe he had barely been paying attention to Clinton-the former secretary of state had already stated that Trump supported the war before, during, and after the invasion.
It was the first time on the campaign trail that Trump has gone to such great lengths to prove his dissenting opinion prior to the war.
Trump did not directly respond to Clinton’s critique Thursday.
Fifty-three percent of voters who are now serving or have previously served in the US military said they would be confident in Trump’s ability to serve as an effective commander-in-chief of the USA military, while 47 percent of these voters said No, the NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll has found. Trump’s supporters are especially enthusiastic: 75% say they’re more interested in this year’s face-offs than in previous years, compared with 58% of Clinton’s supporters. When Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson are added as options to the polls, almost 20 percent chose a candidate other than Clinton or Trump or were undecided.
The foreign policy discussion followed a Wednesday night national security forum. Political independents tilt toward seeing Trump’s tactics as a necessary shake-up, 52% to the 47% who see his style as unnecessarily risky. He said Clinton exposed “classified information to actors on her unsecured, I would say home brew, email server” and that it has “weakened the decision making” in Iraq, Syria and Libya and “turned those countries into a breeding ground for radical Islamic terror”.
Clinton will look to draw attention to some of her policy platforms in the coming weeks by delivering a series of “Stronger Together” speeches around the new book that she and running mate Tim Kaine published this week, Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s spokeswoman, said Thursday. “On the flip side, Donald Trump [is] saying you can’t trust Hillary Clinton because of the decisions she has made”.
However, many of Trump’s defense plan would be hard, if not impossible, to be executed, and would cost tens of billions of dollars, many local analysts said.
Clinton spoke of teaching the occasional Sunday school class and being married for more than 40 years to former President Bill Clinton, a Southern Baptist, despite being a lifelong Methodist herself.
The CNN/ORC poll was conducted by telephone September 1-4 among a random national sample of 1,001 adults. In Florida, 761 likely voters were surveyed.
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In Florida, the Quinnipiac poll surveyed 761 voters with a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points; 751 North Carolina voters with a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points; 775 OH voters with a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points; and 778 Pennsylvania voters, also with a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.
