Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence defended running mate Donald Trump’s assertion that Vladimir Putin was a stronger leader than President Obama on Thursday.
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Trump did little to counter criticism that he lacks detailed policy proposals, particularly regarding the Islamic State group.
In an effort to explain the support behind Trump, Clinton went on to describe the rest of Trump supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathize with them. Only 37% of North Carolina voters said they have a favorable opinion of Clinton, while a majority – 55% – said they have an unfavorable opinion.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said she believed Trump’s Iraq statement was important enough for Lauer to correct.
Clinton also started 2016 with far more money in the bank than her Republican rival.
“Why does Donald Trump continue to praise Putin?” asked New Day host Alisyn Camerota.
“Clinton announced today she will be meeting with a bipartisan group of high-profile security experts in NY tomorrow, including David Petraeus, Michael Chertoff, and Janet Napolitano”, Cordes stated at the end of her report, seemingly impressed by Clinton’s schedule.
Standing in front of a row of American flags and white pillars resembling those at the White House, Hillary Clinton touted support from national security leaders, reminded the country of her role in killing Osama bin Laden, and chastised – with a touch of theatrical flare – her Republican opponent as clueless and entirely out of his element.
Some of those Republicans will join Clinton Friday for what she dubbed at “working session” on the threat of terrorism. Clinton has spent $132 million on ads, NBC News reported this week, more than four times Trump’s almost $29 million. Those attending the event include Michael Chertoff, who served as Homeland Security secretary under President George W. Bush. The candidates will face off for the first time on September 26 at Hofstra University.
“Last night Hillary Clinton failed the commander-in-chief test where she was unable to answer for her awful foreign policy judgment, mishandling of classified information and claims that the [Veteran’s Affairs] wait time scandal was overblown”, said Miller. But she defended her support for US military intervention to help oust a dictator in Libya, despite the chaotic aftermath.
NANCY CORDES: Clinton argued that’s the only explanation for some of Trump’s claims last night. No matter how much Hillary disproves their perceptions wrong, some people who are culturally inflexible just dig in their heels more and refuse to budge because, to do so, would be too unsettling, too chaotic, to their worldview.
In his response, Trump doubled down on the incorrect and unsafe assumption that men are doomed to commit sexual assault when working in close proximity to women. And for the first time, he opened the door to granting legal status to people living in the US illegally who join the military. If only he’d been in, say, Jakarta rather than New York City Wednesday night, he wouldn’t be suffering rebukes for artlessly questioning Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I said, I don’t know.
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Trump again called Clinton, who voted for the war as a senator, “trigger-happy”, and he called Iraq “one of the biggest differences in this race”. “I don’t view myself as cold or unemotional”. He replied, “Yeah, I guess so”.
