“I opposed going in – and I did oppose it, despite the media saying “no, yes, no” – I opposed going in, and I opposed the reckless way Hillary Clinton took us out … letting ISIS fill that big, bad void”, Trump said, apparently responding to critics who argued that he expressed indifference to a USA invasion of Iraq in a 2002 interview with Howard Stern.
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From a factual standpoint, Noyes added that Clinton’s “substance wasn’t great, and demeanor, she looked irritated, she looked testy” whereas if she had navigated her way through questions about her e-mail scandal more “crisply”, her friends in the press “would have been saying she hit a home run out of the park, but she didn’t and they’re attacking the interviewer”.
And perceptions of Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, which came up frequently in Wednesday night’s forum, has shifted over the previous year and a half from an issue that voters deemed mostly irrelevant to her character or ability to serve as president to one which nearly two-thirds judge as an indicator of her fitness for the job. “I was totally against the war in Iraq”, the anthropomorphic caramelized creme brulee asserted, despite the fact that he did in fact voice support for the invasion of Iraq, but that was waaaay back before he made a decision to run for President, so it doesn’t count! “I will not let you down”. “Trump is getting just 25 percent from minority voters, while Clinton gets just 26 percent of white men”.
Robby Mook said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday that Trump’s answer for how to defeat the Islamic State group shows he had “no plan” in the first place.
Speaking at a news conference in Laos on Thursday, Obama says he continues to believe Trump isn’t qualified to be president and that “every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed”.
Still, this forum was a mess. The Quinnipiac survey found Johnson with the support of 15% of North Carolina voters, higher than what most polling in the state has shown.
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But if you cross-examine Hillary on serious policy and ask Trump to name his favorite color, obviously one candidate’s sound bites will come across better to an uninformed population than the other, and that candidate’s name rhymes with Shmump. “Why wasn’t it disqualifying, if you want to be commander in chief?” But the average undecided voter isn’t reading those newspapers. The Republican defended his preparedness to be commander in chief despite vague plans for tackling global challenges and the Democrat argued that her controversial email practices did not expose questionable judgment.
