Hillary Clinton outlined her counterterrorism strategy in Minneapolis Tuesday, including a plan to help Muslim-American communities in their efforts to counter radicalization.
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But Schier says how well Clinton’s anti-terror approach will play in a general election has yet to be determined.
She also underscored that Muslim Americans should be key partners in identifying and stopping radicalization at home.
Republicans have sought to portray Clinton as weak on terrorism, since she served as secretary of state in the administration that witnessed the rise of ISIS after it pulled American troops out of Iraq.
But one of her main purposes seemed to be strike a balance – in a way that seemed intended as a rebuke to Trump’s recent call for a moratorium on Muslim immigrants – between small steps that would learn the right new tactics from recent attacks and make America safer, while preserving American traditions of tolerance for immigrants and diversity.
“It’s important for setting the tone and setting an agenda for more or less what’s going to be discussed, ” he said. That is the highest number of people anxious about terrorism since 2005 and knocks the economy and government from top spots.
A Pew Research poll out this week shows Republicans still hold a commanding advantage over Democrats on fighting terrorism.
Quinnipiac University surveyed 727 Iowa likely Democratic caucus participants from December 4-13, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
Chelsea Clinton’s role in her mother’s presidential campaign will increase in the coming months, according to a source close to the former first daughter.
In front of an invitation-only audience including leaders of the Twin Cities’ Somali community, law enforcement officials and political supporters, Clinton made the case that she is more qualified to handle the challenges of foreign policy than Republicans in the presidential race.
“I have known Hillary for a long time”, Mondale said.
“That is not who we are as Americans. We will crush their would-be caliphate and counter radical jihadism wherever it takes root”, Clinton said at the end of her speech.
Her plan also called for tougher vetting of visa applications for people seeking entry into the United States who have traveled in the last five years to a country facing serious problems with terrorism, but she rebuked Republicans for their proposals to ban Syrian refugees from entering the United States. “The ignorance in this country about all Muslims being terrorists is a very big problem right now”.
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“Of course ISIS is a major threat to our country and to the world and of course it has to be crushed”, he said on Sunday in a conversation with reporters.
But Clinton, who has run for president before and lost Minnesota to Barack Obama by a 2-to-1 margin in 2008, took a tack most presidential candidates avoid when visiting the hinterlands. “And we’ll defeat these new enemies simply as we now have defeated those that have threatened us up to now, as a result of it isn’t sufficient to include ISIS – we should defeat ISIS”, Clinton stated.
Domestically, Clinton also highlighted the importance to gun control.
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“I am confident once again we will choose resolve over fear”, Clinton said in remarks at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis.
