And there’s percolating interest among congressional Republicans in sniffing out any connections between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department – a potential new Clinton probe inspired by reports showing foundation donors securing access to Clinton as secretary of state.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton has the lead in Pennsylvania and in North Carolina, but a new Quinnipiac University swing state poll shows Republican Donald Trump gaining an edge in OH and Florida. Already the path is much more hard for the Republicans.
The forum underscored a debate that’s rapidly becoming a focal point in the race: Is the first female presidential nominee of a major US party being judged fairly?
“ISIS and North Korea’s quest for a nuclear weapon are not entirely unconnected”.
“I want to defeat them”, she said.
On Thursday, Trump said he would have voted against the war if he had been serving in Congress at the time.
The brash businessman’s performance at an NBC foreign policy forum earlier in the week was widely panned. John McCain was not a war hero because he was captured. “Nobody said it would be on Russian TV”, Conway said on CNN’s “New Day”.
During his interview with Larry King, which aired on Russia Today, Trump criticized US foreign policy decisions such as the Iraq War.
For several moments Clinton stood still, shaking her head – then returned to the podium.
The two White House hopefuls have waged a running battle this week over who is best placed to command the world’s most powerful military, with both touting their support from retired military leaders and attacking their opponent’s temperament and judgment. “It is beyond one’s imagination to have a candidate for president praising a Russian autocrat like Vladimir Putin”.
“I have a very substantial chance of winning, if I win, I don’t want to broadcast to the enemy what my plan is”, Trump said, adding that he might incorporate some of the military establishment’s own recommendations into his plan.
Clinton’s campaign, in an effort to paint Trump as a national security risk, has kept close tabs on former defense officials who have endorsed the former secretary of state – particularly those who worked in Republican administrations. “It’s not a serious presidential campaign, and it is beyond one’s imagination to have a candidate for president praising a Russian autocrat like Vladimir Putin”.
Richard Fontaine, former foreign policy advisor to Republican Sen.
Clinton has pointed to her four years as secretary of state as one of her major qualifications to be president.
Clinton meanwhile held a working session on terrorism and national security with a group of experts that included ousted former Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus, former commander of USA forces in Afghanistan John Allen and former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matt Olsen.
“Big business is pragmatic-and they think she is going to win”, said Sam Geduldig, a top Republican fundraiser and Washington lobbyist who represents dozens of Fortune 500 companies.
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“We don’t play games”, he said in a memo to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents some of whom were reportedly sharply critical of the decision not to charge Clinton despite finding her “extremely careless” in handling the nation’s secrets as America’s top diplomat.
