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Stark divide as Clinton, Trump talk foreign policy

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he will expand all areas of the U.S. military if he wins November’s election. Trump suggested at the event in which he and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton made back-to-back appearances that US generals had been stymied by the policies of Obama and Clinton, who served as the Democratic president’s first secretary of state.

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Respondents were evenly split between Clinton and Trump when asked “which presidential candidate do you believe will be better at keeping us safe?”.

Clinton has said her experience in government as secretary of state and a U.S. senator makes her uniquely qualified for the White House, and that Trump’s series of controversial comments make him temperamentally unfit for the office.

“There are a lot of Republicans who are very nervous about Donald Trump and they may see this Dallas Morning News endorsement of Clinton and say, ‘Alright, even these guys have seen the light and gone with Clinton, ‘” said Cal Jillson, a political expert from Southern Methodist University.

Still, the government’s most senior Republican stressed Thursday that he does not share Trump’s complimentary view of Putin. “I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake”, she said”.

On the US intervention in Libya in 2011, Clinton rejected Trump’s criticism of her support for the effort as secretary of state.

At the NBC “Commander in Chief” forum Wednesday night, Clinton and Trump were separately questioned by anchor Matt Lauer on various national security and foreign policy topics.

“There was one thing that shocked me”, Trump said. In fact, Trump said, he preferred Putin’s politics to U.S. President Barack Obama’s.

Prior to the interview’s abrupt ending, Trump did addresses several topics, including Hillary Clinton, whom he surprisingly did not disparage. I, at the same time, want to keep the court system within the military. He added that he didn’t personally like Putin’s system of governing, but that the Russian president has “been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader”.

Another questioned Clinton’s trustworthiness after he claimed her emails compromised national security.

“I will not let the VA be privatized and I do think there is an agenda out there supported by my opponent to do just that”, she said.

Lauer asked if Trump still stood by that comment.

“The bottom line, Texas voters are at their heart and soul conservative and have a conservative love for America and these newspapers are not going to sway them”, she said. “Can he handle having his finger on the big red button?'”, Yepsen said.

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“Getting al-Baghdadi will require efforts at the top levels, but it will send a resounding message that nobody directs or inspires attacks against the United States and gets away with it”, she said on Thursday. “We made the world safer”, she said. Many critics said his remarks were wrongheaded and showed he doesn’t support the advancement of women in the military.

Clinton news conf Sept 8