“We know that a lot of the rhetoric that we’ve heard from Donald Trump has been seized on by terrorists, including ISIS, because they are looking to make this a war against Islam”, Clinton said.
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Trump’s campaign hit back with a statement accusing Clinton of charging Trump with “treason” and of aiding the rise of ISIS by backing the U.S. decision to withdraw troops from Iraq in 2011.
“When I am President, terrorists like today’s suspect in the NY and New Jersey bombings, Ahmad Khan Rahami, and yesterday’s knife-wielding ISIS sympathizer in Minnesota, Dahir Adan, will be stopped”, Trump said in the statement.
Trump bemoaned that the alleged attacker, 28-year-old Ahmad Rahami, will receive medical treatment, “room service” and legal counsel. A rash of attacks on U.S. soil put national security centre stage in the presidential campaign yesterday, with Hillary Clinton seeking to show a steady hand and Donald Trump saying America needed to be tougher on terror and immigration.
Hillary Clinton cast herself Monday as the most qualified to combat terrorism in the US after a weekend of violent attacks in three states. I really don’t know that.
The possibility of a home-grown terrorist plot cast a new shadow over the presidential race, diverting both candidates’ attention from the daily controversies of the campaign and giving them a high-profile opportunity to make their case to undecided voters. Trump again blamed Clinton for the rise of ISIS, speculating the terror group is secretly pulling for her.”They want her so badly to be your president, you have no idea”, Trump said. On the campaign trail, she frequently invokes her role in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, describing to voters the tense atmosphere in the White House alongside President Barack Obama.
“We should also launch an intelligence surge to help identify and thwart attacks before they can be carried out”. I just don’t want to comment specifically on who they are. I’ve been saying you’ve got to stop it, Trump told Fox News.
The Clinton campaign, for its part, has long believed that in the unwanted circumstances of an “October Surprise” terror attack, voters would turn to experience and a steady hand rather than Trump’s more impulsive leadership. She insinuated that Islamic militants, particularly those affiliated with ISIS, are rooting for Trump to win the White House.
“But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Clinton supporter, pointed out that what Trump was proposing was a wholesale repudiation of the humanitarian, civic and legal values for which the U.S. stands – a factor that could give some voters pause when they consider handing the White House to Trump”. “They made a mistake”, Trump said.
Clinton briefly turned her focus from national security on Monday, wooing younger voters at a midday rally in Philadelphia. At Temple University, she acknowledged she needs to do more to get millennials on board. I get that, and I want to do my best to answer those questions.
This election marks the first presidential campaign where millennials make up the single largest generation among USA adults, having surpassed baby boomers during the past four years.
The nation is still reeling from a number of terror attacks over the previous weekend that sent dozens to hospitals in New York City and Minnesota, as Pence spoke at Giese Manufacturing, on September 19.
“There have been Islamic terrorist attacks in Minnesota and New York City and New Jersey”, Trump said.
“Her attacks on me are all meant to deflect from her record of unleashing this monster”, Trump told a large crowd in Fort Myers, Florida.
This report contains material from Reuters and the Associated Press.
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