Both candidates believe they have the upper hand, with Clinton contrasting her experience with Trump’s unpredictability and the Republican arguing that Americans anxious about their safety will be left with more of the same if they elect Obama’s former secretary of state.
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Kristol said the billionaire real-estate tycoon did “didn’t make any awful mistakes” and called Clinton’s performance “weak”.
Lauer struggled to find a balance in his thirty-minute interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
“We should make it a top priority to hunt down the leader of ISIS”, Clinton told reporters on a tarmac in White Plains, New York.
The discussion followed a Wednesday night national security forum. As critics point out, he allowed himself to be steamrolled by Trump and failed to identify a blatant lie Trump made about his support for the Iraq war. But he also said he would demand a plan from military leaders within 30 days of taking office.
But he was also harshly critical of the military, saying America’s generals have been “reduced to rubble” under Obama.
During an event at a college in Charlotte before over 1,500 people, Clinton said such laws discriminated against minorities, calling them “a blast from the Jim Crow past”. I have already said, he is really very much of a leader.
He told reporters, he is “not going to sit up here and do the tit for tat on what Donald said last night or the night before in Hillary vs. Donald”.
“I would never comment on any aspect of an intelligence briefing I received”, Clinton, a former secretary of state, said before boarding her campaign plane. “But it’s part of the landscape we live in”.
As a businessman with no substantial national security experience, Trump was vague about how he is preparing for the enormous array of complex issues that would land on his desk as commander in chief.
Indeed, Clinton struggled during the forum to fend off questions about her use of a private email server during her time as secretary. Noah said. “This event was called The Commander-in-Chief Forum”.
Some of Trump’s foreign policy positions, such as his proposal to fight terrorism by imposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country, have alarmed not just Democrats but many in his own party’s leadership.
“What is Aleppo?” Johnson asked.
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That’s a “record” haul for the Trump campaign and its joint fundraising committees, the campaign bragged in a Thursday statement, but it’s no match for Hillary Clinton, who raised $143 million in August, as her campaign reported last week.
