But just what is it about this Russian oligarch that Donald Trump finds so admirable?
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“Humility is not something you hear about much in politics, is it?” “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables, ‘” Clinton told the crowd, before labeling them “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic”. “I should not have to have that fear inside of me when I’m just trying to serve my country and do my duty as a service member?”
Trump on Thursday pointed to comments he made three months after Congress voted in favor of military action in Iraq, when he told Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto that “the Iraqi situation is a problem”, but that “the economy is a much bigger problem as far as the president is concerned”.
The Republican vice presidential nominee said Thursday that Trump, like Reagan before him, has the honesty and bluntness to confront the challenges facing the country. Clinton is still working on a clear, crisp explanation for why she used a private server and whether that reflects on her judgment — issues Trump will look to exploit.
She started on Thursday night with an address to the National Baptist Convention, made up primarily of African-Americans, that focused on her own religious life.
Clinton said she would convene a meeting of bipartisan security experts on Friday to discuss the fight against Islamic State militants.
The forum was seen as a kind of precursor to the presidential debates between Clinton and Trump (and, who knows, maybe Gary Johnson if his polls pick up-2016 is weird).
Clinton’s second “Stronger Together” speech will be in California on Tuesday, Palmieri said.
“We have got to take them on in the arena of ideas”, she said, adding that partnering with Muslims was essential for that.
“The media has been unbelievably dishonest”, Trump responded.
“He’s not a serious adult”, Sasse says in an interview he gave on MSNBC.
“Simply put, I’ve never been more anxious about our men and women in uniform being poorly led over the next four years”, he said. Trump, a real-estate mogul, wins men by 22 percentage points; Clinton, a former secretary of state, takes women by 20.
There’s no debate briefing book in the world that would suggest a candidate for president of the United States praise Vladimir Putin’s approval rating, insult top US generals and sound off about what can be learned from the body language of top-secret intelligence briefers.
She did not hesitate to share her own plan for confronting IS, saying she would focus on boosting up what the U.S. has already been doing in Syria and Iraq, vowing to “intensify our air campaign, more support on the ground to the Arab and Kurdish fighters”, while also “pushing ISIS towards the Syrian border and pushing them out of Raqqa toward the Iraqi border”. The event was hosted by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and staged before an audience of veterans and current military members in NY.
Clinton has pointed to her four years as secretary of state as one of her major qualifications to be president.
“I think he was talking about the commander in chief reducing the influence of generals to rubble”, Pence said.
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For example, two of Clinton’s press events were held in-flight on her campaign airplane, and one of those ended early after she suffered a coughing fit.
