Clinton leads Trump among likely voters, 46 to 41 percent, in the poll, released Sunday morning.
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Trump did little to counter criticism that he lacks detailed policy proposals, particularly regarding the Islamic State group. “Trump is getting just 25 percent from minority voters, while Clinton gets just 26 percent of white men”.
The latest Rasmussen Reports weekly White House Watch national telephone and online survey shows Clinton with 43% support to Donald Trump’s 39%.
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.
In Pennsylvania, a state that Trump had targeted but has not supported a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, Clinton’s advantage was halved.
“I’ve already said, he is really very much of a leader”.
Trump was more popular than Clinton with Arizona’s male voters, while Clinton found more support with female voters and those aged 18-35.
Clinton’s supporters are more confident in her ability to navigate the upcoming debates than Trump backers are of his expected performance – 91 percent of Clinton supporters expect her to outperform Trump, compared to 78 percent of Trump supporters who say he will deliver a sharper performance.
Tonight, at a “Commander-In-Chief” forum held on an American aircraft carrier in front of an audience of current and past military personnel, Donald Trump, a candidate for president of the United States who never served in the military due to having “bad feet,” repeatedly denounced us military leadership while heaping praise on Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I think it is very different”, the NY lawmaker said.
“Our leaders did not follow what they were recommending”, Trump said in relation to the intelligence agents.
Clinton also asked that she be “judged on the totality of my record”.
Trump stood by a previous comment that appeared to blame military of sexual assaults on men and women serving together, but added he would not seek to remove women from the military. And for the first time, he opened the door to granting legal status to people living in the USA illegally who join the military.
Despite his words to the contrary on the campaign trail, Trump said he favored invading Iraq one month before Congress voted to authorize the use of military force and continued to praise the invasion in its first months. He replied, “Yeah, I guess so”.
Later on Wednesday, Trump will continue to discuss national security at an MSNBC commander-in-chief forum.
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‘It’s a war we shouldn’t have been in, number one, ‘ Trump said in the interview.
