“When she said my opposition to radical Islamic terrorism provides aid and comfort to the enemy – we know that Hillary Clinton has once again demonstrated she is unfit for office”, Trump said. “I have sat at that table in the Situation Room”.
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“How fortunes have changed for Clinton and Trump in New Hampshire compared to when this campaign started in February”, said Patrick Murray, director of the nonpartisan Monmouth University Polling Institute, in a news release.
As to whether she is qualified to fight terrorists while she occupied leadership positions in government it is worth examining her history. The leaders are in NY for the UN General Assembly.
At a minimum, an energized Pennsylvania campaign is a balm for Clinton as she weathers a dip in national polls and dips in the swing states of Florida and Ohio.
Then there is Libya, where Clinton supported North Atlantic Treaty Organisation bombings, which led to the overthrow of Gaddafi. Much of the country is controlled by ISIS-style militants.
Most voters feel Trump would be better for rich people, white people and men, while most believe Clinton would be better for poor people, women and minorities, according to the poll.
Clinton has also boasted of advocating for the arming of rebels against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday asserted that his proposed ideological tests for immigrants would prevent future terrorist attacks in the United States, while also accusing his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, of facilitating the spread of terrorist attacks in the United States through her “weakness”.
Clinton said nothing to correct the reporter on the clumsiness of lumping together ISIS, a terrorist organization, and Russian Federation, a country in alliance with the U.S. against the ISIS insurgency, in one sentence – but said she didn’t want to speculate.
“Here’s the story that no poll can tell: Hillary Clinton has many paths to 270 electoral votes, while Donald Trump has very few”, said Mook.
The Elon University poll found Trump has a 44 percent advantage among likely voters in the Tar Heel State and 43 percent back Clinton.
Earlier this month, Clinton convened a larger, bipartisan group of national security advisers in Manhattan for a conversation about defeating the Islamic State and global terrorism more broadly.
Trump had this about ISIS: “They’re getting good public relations because it looks like they’re beating the United States or certainly like the United States can’t beat them”, and he used Israel as an example as a country that “successfully” profiles potential terrorists. Additionally, just under half said that both Clinton and Trump had not provided enough medical information.
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In the “age of Netflix and House of Cards”, many young people see politics as “this dirty, grimy thing.” he said. “I couldn’t say that electing Mitt Romney would be an unmitigated disaster”, he said. “Give me a break”.
