For most of the campaign, Clinton has largely kept her traveling press corps at a distance, choosing instead to sit for one-on-one interviews with local and national broadcasters, to call into cable TV shows, appear on podcasts and talk with new media websites.
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Getting Trump to make that kind of consistent case against Clinton has been a herculean task for much of the campaign. Their planes sat just a few hundred feet apart at the same airport.
The destinations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Hampshire point to Clinton’s battleground map of approximately a dozen states that hold the key to the 270 electoral votes needed to claim the presidency. Trump’s political inexperience leaves him with a lower bar to clear. Other polls showed Clinton’s lead had shrunk.
“I think that when you serve in the armed forces, that’s a very special situation”, Trump said.
As the race for the White house heats up two major polls published yesterday reveal that the outcome is still far from certain.
Speaking to the deleted messages, the real-estate mogul insisted Clinton “probably knows how to find them”. She said she and Kaine would outline their plans for office in a book being released this week.
In an editorial published Tuesday titled “Donald Trump is no Republican”, the paper’s editors rebuked the GOP hopeful, advising Texas voters that Trump is “not qualified to serve as president and does not deserve your vote”.
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“We support Donald Trump and his commitment to rebuild our military, secure our borders, to defeat our Islamic supremacist adversaries, and restore law and order domestically”. And while she’s finally getting more face time in front of the press – bringing reporters on her plane and doing a Thursday press conference – she also has plenty of money to buy more controlled visibility, in the form of attack ad after attack ad. And for the first time, he opened the door to granting legal status to people living in the US illegally who join the military. “I’m more than ready”, Clinton said at the start of the day.
Welcome to McClatchy’s Voter Survival Guide, an interactive presentation of daily events from one of the strangest presidential campaigns in modern history.
His first face-off with Clinton is at Hofstra University in NY state on September 26.
Clinton attacked Trump for seemingly contradictory plans to combat ISIS, saying he’s both promised to send American ground troops into Syria and let Syria become a free zone for the militants.
The former secretary of state raised a combined $143 million in August for her campaign, the Democratic National Committee and state parties – her best month yet.
Trump said that in Libya, Iraq and “anywhere she got involved, things got worse”.
“His whole campaign has been one long insult to all those who have worn the uniform”, the Democratic nominee said at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Clinton battled a persistent cough during her speech in OH, which later flared up before reporters on the plane.
Trump will also continue to distinguish his foreign policy vision from Hillary Clinton’s, whom Trump described Tuesday night as favoring “military adventurism”. She began September with more than $68 million in her campaign’s bank account to use against Trump, who has not yet released initial fundraising totals for August.
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Clinton is again on the defensive over her use of a private email server and possible conflicts of interest with her family foundation while secretary of state, which have caused unease for some voters.
