The results of aNew York Times poll released last Thursday indicate that Donald Trump ties or trails Hillary Clinton on questions of national security and foreign policy.
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Trump asserted America can never elect a president, like Hillary Clinton, who “with her choice of words, thinks decent American citizens are a bigger threat than radical Islamic terrorists”.
He also insisted the USA should “use whatever lawful methods are available” to get information from the Afghan immigrant arrested in this weekend’s bombings.
As several Trump supporters shouted “Hang him!” the Republican presidential candidate bemoaned the fact that Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old US citizen originally from Afghanistan, would receive quality medical care and legal representation. “We must have speedy but fair trials, and we must deliver a just and very harsh punishment to these people”. However, Clinton also referred to the attack, along with one in New Jersey on Monday, as “bombings” that same evening, and both candidates were correct in their remarks. Clinton has a 5-point lead over Trump, but that’s down from a 9-point advantage five weeks ago.
The most alarming claim from Trump was “I finished it, and you know what I mean”, which caused Colbert to exclaim in frustration. In fact, if you want to give Michelle and me a good send-off-and that was a handsome video, but don’t just watch us walk off into the sunset now-get people registered to vote. While the Democratic nominee emphasized that she supports rigorous vetting, she argued that such vetting must be applied to visa applicants as well, saying, “Let’s remember what happened on 9/11 – these were not refugees who got into airplanes and attacked our city and our country”.
Clinton and her team see her foreign policy experience as a key selling point for her candidacy.
Trump also said Clinton’s record as secretary of state has ruined the USA economy, leading companies to shift operations overseas and leaving the nation with a massive deficit. We want to make sure we are only admitting people into our country who love our country.
“These attacks and many others were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system which fails to properly vet and screen the individuals or families coming into our country”, Trump told a packed arena in Estero, Florida on Monday afternoon.
But Trump also used the bombings as an opportunity to further cast Clinton as unelectable and unfit for the office.
A US -led coalition has been fighting ISIS, an acronym for Islamic State, mainly through air strikes in Syria and Iraq.
Most voters surveyed said Trump would be better for rich people and Clinton would be better for poor people.
Trump said the president’s birth certificate could be fake.
Clinton’s speech was largely muted and personal, aimed more at helping younger voters get to know her and showing she supports the policies they care about – equal rights, climate change action, immigration reform – than punching hard at Trump.
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Hillary Clinton sought to buck up her weak standing with millennial voters with a Temple University speech on Monday that was heavily on her personal history.
