Voters also appear conflicted on the how national security will factor into the election.
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NY officials said Monday the bombings in a Manhattan neighborhood and a New Jersey shore town were looking increasingly like acts of terrorism with a foreign connection.
Hillary Clinton cast herself as the only presidential candidate who has fought terrorism and slammed Donald Trump’s response to the incidents in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota over the weekend as “demagogic”.
In brief remarks, Clinton toured a gamut of terror-related issues – from radicalisation to policing – before calling for public resolve and a government intelligence surge to counter disparate and diffuse plots. With Obama playing the race card to help her with black voters, Clinton would wrap her arms ever more tightly around the president and his policies between now and November.
ISIS is another acronym for the Islamic State group.
Ivanka Trump is now getting Secret Service protection.
The disruption becomes unbearable when the attacks allegedly are carried out by foreign-born Muslims who were welcomed here with open arms, then turned on their generous American hosts.
Our country has been weak. “We don’t want his support and we don’t want the support of people who think like him”, Pence replied.
“People ask me that question, ‘oh you’re going to go out there and do this and that.’ I really don’t know that”.
And revelations Monday that at least 858 people that had been ordered deported or removed under another name were improperly granted United States citizenship due to a failure to maintain adequate fingerprint records, according to a new report, will be used by critics of the immigration system to bolster his claims of the need for reform.
The political repercussions of the attacks are hard to predict. When they compared those results to national polling averages, they found a small inverse correlation between the candidate who more Americans had heard of recently and that same candidate’s standing in the polls. Last week he said that the debate would be better without a moderator.
The debate format calls for six 15-minute time segments, and each of the topics will take up two of the six time slots.
“All together, her plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term with no effective way to screen them or vet them”, he suggested, estimating that Clinton’s plan would cost more than $400 billion in terms of entitlement costs for the refugees.
Clinton and Trump are slated, separately, to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Clinton has additional meetings with Japan’s Shinzo Abe and Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko.
Trump was criticized by both Democrats and Republicans for describing the explosion as a bomb shortly after the blast, before federal or New York City officials confirmed that as the cause.
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Trump has tried to counter his image as a diplomatic neophyte. “I know how to do this”, Clinton said during her news conference. I’ve already met with a couple. I need you to knock on doors.
