Among those most concerned about jobs and the economy, Trump led Clinton 46 percent to 36 percent, and among those who cited terrorism/national security as the most important issue, he led 58 percent to 33 percent. “And I’m confident that our military commanders can bring forward the ideas once the commander in chief makes the mission clear, and Donald Trump has made the mission clear”.
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Donald Trump stood by his past comment that military sexual assaults should be expected “when they put men and women together” in the U.S. armed forces during an NBC-hosted forum Wednesday night.
Mike Pence on Thursday defended his running mate’s statement that Vladimir Putin is a stronger leader than President Barack Obama, calling it “inarguable”. Trump had said “Yeah, I guess so”, when asked about a potential conflict in Iraq.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a news conference on the airport tarmac in front of her campaign plane in White Plains, New York, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016. The candidates will face off for the first time on September 26 at Hofstra University. “She said that while taking an admissions test at Harvard, a group of men began to yell, ‘You don’t need to be here” and one said that if she took his spot, he would be drafted and be killed in Vietnam.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a series of tweets after the remarks that Clinton has been talking about the “alternative right”, or “alt-right” movement, which often is associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity”, oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values”.
In a four-way contest, 10 per cent chose Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and four per cent Green Party candidate Jill Stein, while the rest remained unsure, Pew found.
She sought to move forward on Thursday as the popular website Humans of NY published interviews in which Clinton spoke candidly about perceptions that she can sometimes come off as “cold or unemotional”, describing her struggle to control her emotions without seeming “walled off” and speaking in personal terms about what it’s like to campaign as a woman. “Now, it’s a very different system and I don’t happen to like the system, but certainly in that system, he’s been a leader”.
Clinton has not let the media attend many fundraisers, but a group of journalists was given access to Friday night’s event to hear her.
Gabriel Debenedetti writes on the Politico website that neither candidate did much to advance their cause, with Hillary Clinton spending “a third of the time fending off questions about her emails” while “Donald Trump struggled to explain his secret plan to defeat the Islamic State”.
And unfortunately there are people like that.
Hillary Clinton says she learned as a young woman to control her emotions in part as one of the few women applying to law school at the time.
Trump supporter Amber Smith responded that she didn’t believe Trump was praising Putin, but rather saying that the United States needed to do deals with our adversaries.
“What is Aleppo?” Johnson asked during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. “If I win, I don’t want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is”. “You know what Donald, this is real reality, this is real people, these are real decisions that have to be made for our country”.
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But he also said he would confer with USA generals on his ISIS plan, although he criticized Pentagon brass, alleging generals have not stood up to President Obama. Her long political record can be used against her by the Republicans.
