Trump showed no sign of changing, casting “many” foreigners coming to the U.S. as a “cancer within”.
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Many Clinton supporters don’t feel passionate about the candidate, but rather support her simply because they don’t like Trump.
“I’m the only candidate in this race who’s been part of the hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield”, she said Monday. I won’t get into classified information, but I have sat at that table in the Situation Room, I have analyzed the threats, I have contributed to actions that have neutralized our enemies. “It shouldn’t be about birth certificates or name calling or stunts to get on the cable news”, she added, referencing Trump’s long-held and false belief that Obama was born outside the United States.
Though Trump’s plans might not have prevented Rahami from visiting South Asia, where thousands of law abiding United States citizens travel every month, Rahami’s travels will play into the febrile political atmosphere that Trump is trying to tap into following the attacks.
In response to Saturday blasts in New Jersey and NY and a knife attack in Minnesota, Clinton called for a surge in intelligence and greater coordination with local law enforcement and Silicon Valley technology companies; more outreach to Muslim-American communities to apprehend troubled individuals; and intensified diplomatic efforts across the Middle East.
In central Minnesota, a man stabbed nine people at a mall on Saturday before being shot dead by an off-duty policeman.
Law enforcement officials said they were investigating whether Rahami could have been influenced by global militant groups or the ongoing conflict in his homeland.
Clinton often reminds her audiences that she was with Obama during the raids that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011. “I think it is important for voters to know and hear this and weigh it in making their choice in November; we know that a lot of the rhetoric we’ve heard from Donald Trump has been seized on by terrorists, in particular ISIS”.
Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police Monday, in Linden, NJ, September 19, 2016. “We should arrest the people that do that, because they’re participating in crimes. It’s a awful thing that’s going on in our world, in our country and we are going to get tough and smart and vigilant”.
Trump has pulled even with Clinton in many recent polls, but continues to fare poorly among black voters, many of whom resent his questioning of Obama’s birthplace. He keeps saying he has a secret plan.
Trump asserted President Barack Obama and, by association, Clinton, has responsibility.
For her part, Clinton, despite facing the historically daunting task of trying to win a third consecutive White House term for her party, is hugging Obama close. “There were 150 people there”, Trump campaign manager KellyAnne Conway said on CBS “Face the Nation” Sunday.
“They are totally giving restrictions, I’m sure they’re going to be checking IDs the day of the debate to make sure the people who are here are supposed to be here”, says student Gerro Lorenzo. At Temple University, she acknowledged she needs to do more to get millennials on board. I need you to make phone calls.
And I want to do my best to answer those questions.
Andrew Barry is 18 and will be voting in his first presidential election. The leaders are in NY for the U.N. General Assembly. Trump was expected to cancel a fundraiser and a town hall meeting in Florida on Monday. If she does not, it could harm her election chances because she is far more dependent on the youth vote than Trump, as the core Republican vote skews much older. Still, he suggested it’s fine if some world leaders feel uneasy about him.
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“Well, maybe that’s a good thing, not a bad thing. Right now the world has no respect for our country, they have no respect for our president, whatsoever”.
