Donald Trump responded to the bombing attacks in ny and New Jersey on Monday during a speech in Estero, Florida.
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But while much of the foreign policy establishment has rallied around Mrs Clinton, Mr Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, promises to close USA borders and vows to aggressively profile potential terrorists have fuelled his presidential bid. “We are going after the bad guys and we are going to get them, but we are not going to go after an entire religion and give ISIS exactly what it is wanting”, Clinton said.
The Saturday explosions are thrusting national security concerns back to the fore of the 2016 presidential race. The former secretary of state called for a ramped-up air campaign against ISIS targets.
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller issued a statement blasting Clinton’s accusations. “Nothing she says or does can ever un-ring that bell”.
That was a dig at the proposals of Trump, who has said he would bar immigration from nations with ties to terrorism. Police suspect 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was captured Monday, in both bombings. But Cohen said political rhetoric could also be affecting and even motivating the attacks themselves.
The poll, which was conducted from last Monday to Sunday, was the first national four-way poll to at least partially be conducted after Trump, the Republican nominee, renewed the so-called birther controversy about President Barack Obama’s birthplace. In many countries overseas, non-believers face the death penalty.
However, Trump did not offer a specific plan.
The comments drew a sharp contrast to the remarks of Trump, whom Clinton accused of using the bombings and stabbings to make “some kind of demagogic point”.
Trump added: “We coddle them”.
“We must deliver a just and very harsh punishment to these people”, he said.
Mr. Obama told the donors that Mr. Trump was unlike the two candidates he faced in the 2008 and 2012 general elections.
“It’s called leadership”, he added.
Trump, at a campaign rally in Estero, Florida, blamed poor screening of immigrants for the attacks and criticized his opponent’s record.
Clinton said the attacks were “a serious challenge” that the country can meet in “concert with our values” and said she has been in favor of “tough vetting”.
“The jihadist narrative is that there is undying enmity between Islam and the modern world so when Trump says they all hate us, he’s using their narrative. he’s feeding their recruitment video”, Hayden told The Guardian in May. The FBI said it was investigating the attack as a potential act of terrorism.
“Current practices are too politically correct”, he said. “We’ve been weak, our country’s been weak”.
Clinton urged Americans not to fear. Do we really have a choice? “We have faced threats before”. “I know how to win-we don’t win”.
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“We will not defeat it with closed eyes or silent voices”, he said.
