At least 94 per cent of Trump’s backers say he is more honest while just 70 per cent of those behind Clinton choose her, with 11 per cent saying Trump is more trustworthy and 17 per cent saying neither of them.
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He answered very few questions directly, but nearly all of his answers came around to attacking Hillary Clinton’s past prescriptions for foreign policy.
Lloyd “Fig” Newton, a four-star General and the first African-American Thunderbird pilot, said: “Given the challenges we face around the world today, and the rhetoric we are hearing from some at home, I feel I have a moral imperative to come forth and endorse secretary Hillary Clinton for president”.
A say Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the worst candidates that their respective parties have nominated over the past 40 years, according to a new Huffington Post/YouGov poll published Tuesday night.
“Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS”, Trump said, using an alternate acronym for the IS group. Under his leadership, Trump said, the USA military would have an active army of about 540,000 people, a 36-batallion Marine Corps, larger Navy and Air Force fleets, a “state-of-the-art” missile defense system and greater funding for the Defense Department’s “cyber capabilities”.
The editorial board said that Trump does not reflect true Republican values.
Trump’s charge, delivered to a packed crowd in swing state North Carolina, marked a pointed escalation of the Republican White House hopeful’s case against his Democratic challenger as both court military families in key Southern battlegrounds. “We recommend Hillary Clinton”, the paper’s editorial board stated.
“They know they can count on me to be the kind of commander in chief who will protect our country and our troops, and they know they cannot count on Donald Trump”, Clinton said en route to Florida.
The poll shows 55 percent of military voters support Trump and 36 percent support Clinton.
The day before, Trump attacked Clinton’s energy level, noting she hasn’t followed his aggressive traveling schedule and questioning whether she had the stamina to lead the nation.
Trump was in Virginia where he met with veterans during a town hall event.
Trump leads among independents 49%; Clinton 29%.
But, while the paper admits it has been critical of Clinton, it she has experience in “actual governance, a record of service and a willingness to delve into real policy”, which it said is “unlike Donald Trump”. 26 in NY.
Republicans, too, have questioned Trumps capacity to serve as commander in chief.
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Trump’s stated opposition to the Iraq war from the beginning is “one of the main rationales for his candidacy, and it’s completely made up”, Kaine said.
