“There are many people that think that that’s absolutely correct”.
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Over the past few weeks, Mrs. Clinton’s lead in the national polls has taken a deep dive.
The poll shows 55 percent of military voters support Trump and 36 percent support Clinton.
Clinton, addressing supporters in Florida, warned that Trump would lead the nation back to war in the Middle East.
In a televised forum on Wednesday, Mr Trump had praised Mr Putin’s “great control” and 82% approval rating.
And while that’s good news for her Republican opponent, it might not be good enough.
“Donald Trump is no Republican and certainly no conservative”, reads the editorial, which was published Monday morning. Experts inside and outside the government have pointed to Russian-backed actors as the source of the hack, which has been used to leak information in an attempt to embarrass Democrats.
In a Thursday interview with King, Trump said the Russian government “probably” did not meddle in the American presidential race, and that the Hillary Clinton camp’s suggestion otherwise was politically motivated.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed Wednesday over national security issues that exposed deep divides over how to manage the military and conduct foreign policy in an increasingly complex world. “That’s not only risky, it should be disqualifying”.
Campaigning in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Trump vowed to take aggressive action to help veterans at home and confront threats overseas including acts of terrorism from the Islamic State group.
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Trump also injected drama into the national security debate this week by wholeheartedly endorsing Russian President Vladimir Putin as a strong leader who has fared better than U.S. President Barack Obama.
A Clinton campaign official told Business Insider that the campaign has been doing outreach to military leaders for months and had planned to release a list on the same day as NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum. That assertion is contradicted by an interview Trump did with Howard Stern in September 2002 in which he was asked whether he supported the invasion.
Yet the Republican nominee’s operation on Thursday indicated no discomfort with the mounting criticism, with Trump running mate Mike Pence echoing the distinction made between Putin and Obama.
Trump said that he had “no opinion” on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s assertion that the July breach into the Democratic party’s servers was “a public service”.
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“Republicans are just in a awful dilemma trying to support a totally unqualified nominee, I have no sympathy for them, it’s their nominee”, she said. “He wasn’t saying that”, he said.
