Clinton, meanwhile, demonstrated her fluency on foreign policy at Wednesday night’s forum, but still found herself defending her record.
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David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, said Clinton and Trump both face tests in convincing voters that they are up to the task.
Trump began by unveiling a list of 88 retired military leaders endorsing his candidacy, including four four-star generals and 14 three-star flag officers.
During a Friday night fundraiser in NY, the Democratic presidential nominee said that “half” of Trump’s supporters can be placed in a “basket of deplorables”, meaning that they are racist, homophobic or xenophobic.
A coin toss determined that Clinton will be first to take the stage at the forum on Wednesday. We’re going to take back our country, Matt. “But there can be no answer when she deletes 33,000 emails, bleaches them so they can never be recovered, an unheard of practice, and then hammers her phones into total silence”, Trump said. “I knew people who were killed”.
The poll, conducted September 1-4, has Trump at 45 percent compared to Clinton’s 43 percent. While he came to that position when the war became hard, earlier on he was more accepting of military action. At a rally in North Carolina Tuesday, Trump implied that the “IT aide who pleaded the 5th and who is still very much alive may actually be dead”.
“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. “Dangerous. Even for Republicans”.
Labor Day may be over, but the election is just heating up.
“Any viable path for him would require mitigating that damage somewhat”, said Hari Sevugan, a former Obama campaign spokesman who’s now a strategist for the Democratic firm 270 Strategies.
The day before, Trump attacked Clinton’s energy level, noting she hasn’t followed his aggressive traveling schedule and questioning whether she had the stamina to lead the nation. “And from the Trump perspective, they need to shore this up”.
“Obviously it’s not something that would get through this Congress, so that’s something we’d have to look at the election next year. That’s why you’re seeing a renewed interest by the candidates”. She pointed to her endorsements from retired Marine Gen. John Allen, who blasted Trump at the Democratic National Committee, and former Central Intelligence Agency deputy director Mike Morell.
Clinton elaborated on those remarks at the Thursday press conference, saying putting a significant number of U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria would “fulfill one of (ISIS’) dearest wishes which is to drag the United States back into a ground war in that region”.
National security will be a focus all week.
Donald Trump says he’s planning to release detailed health information from a new physical exam in the coming days. John McCain’s war-hero status and his fight with the Muslim parents of an American soldier killed in combat. The “shoot somebody” line wasn’t in Trump’s prepared remarks. It fired off a fund-raising email after the forum, pointing out that Lauer “failed to fact-check” when Trump falsely said he opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq before it happened. And the Wisconsin Republican says when you do that prematurely, you’re likely to lose anyway. “But you can’t do that when you’re president of the United States”, Kaine said. Earlier Wednesday, former Defense Secretary William Cohen joined the list of GOP officials supporting Clinton.
“If (Putin) says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”.
Despite hundreds of protestors outside the church and criticism for using a script, Donald Trump’s received a generally warm welcome at Great Faith Ministries International in Detroit.
Specifically, the ad shows military veterans watching some of the NY billionaire’s more provocative statements, including his claim to know more about the Islamic State group than military generals, his criticism of Arizona Sen.
“Against all odds we were able to bring the two presidential nominees together for the first time”, he said.
They’ve assailed the businessman for routinely ducking questions or offering unclear positions on Iraq, Libya, NATO, U.S. -Mexico relations and other key issues, making the broader point that their opponent is unfit to be commander in chief of the U.S. military and would make America less safe. The controversy was reignited last Friday, so I think it’s fair to say it’s topical.
Clinton added, “I believe I have created so many jobs in the, sort of, conspiracy-theory machine factory”.
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What they’re not created to do is to transform mendacious candidates into honest ones. “They keep coming back”.
