Clinton attended the briefing for more than two hours at the Federal Bureau of Investigation office in White Plains, New York, near her suburban New York City home.
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Words, but no wheels for Donald Trump in Iowa.
To the nearly entirely African-American crowd at the historically black Florida A&M University, Kaine also talked about the importance of historically black colleges and how he and Clinton plan to keep funding the schools in their education plan.
The New York businessman was the headline speaker at “Joni Ernst’s Roast and Ride”, a charity event for military veterans run by U.S. Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican.
Clinton, meanwhile, kept up her verbal assault on Trump’s campaign, asserting in an MSNBC interview Friday that it is built on “prejudice and paranoia” and caters to a radical fringe of the Republican Party.
The question has taken on increased relevance in recent days, as Trump has appeared to soften the hard-line position he adopted during the Republican primary campaign as he looks to boost his appeal among moderate voters in the general election. Bernie Sanders, denouncing the phrase as “a racist term”. Clinton has since apologized.
Clinton is also targeting moderate voters and especially Republicans by depicting Trump and his supporters as extremists, and casting the race as not a normal choice between a Republican and a Democrat. She has contrasted Trump with former Republican presidential candidates John McCain and Bob Dole, and former President George W. Bush, praising their decisive steps to counter racism and anti-Muslim sentiment.
The back-and-forth also has been waged in the national security space.
The former secretary of state routinely received such briefings when she was in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet.
The briefings, which are delivered by career staffers from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, have been traditional for presidential nominees for more than 60 years to ensure a smooth transition for the next commander in chief. “He’s trying to do both; he will probably succeed at neither”, said Larry Sabato, a veteran political scientist with the University of Virginia. In the AP’s lawsuit over other Clinton-related files, Leon has said it would be “ridiculous” to allow the State Department to delay until even weeks before the election. But they have been noticeably quiet in defending Trump against Clintons charges of racism in his campaign. “I do not intend to withhold briefings from any officially nominated, eligible candidate”, Clapper wrote. He has sought to make the case that his economic policies would be better for small minority-owned businesses than those of Clinton.
“We will move justly, but we will move fast, believe me, and we will move tough”, Trump said.
“We’re gonna have safe communities again”, Trump promised, continuing what some have criticized as a stigmatization of black America that doesn’t match the reality.
Trump has suggested that minorities have been left behind by Democratic economic policies and hammered the nation’s sluggish GDP growth as “a catastrophe”. “We’re going to see what happens”, he said, which might mean that Trump’s administration will approach the issue with more care than could have been expected before.
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Trump, speaking on the Iowa State Fairgrounds with hay bales stacked behind him, sought to clarify his views on how to overhaul the USA immigration system after saying earlier in the week that he was softening on his plan to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants.
