“If there’s one core belief that has guided and inspired me every step of the way, it is this: The United States is an exceptional nation”, Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, said in an address to the American Legion’s national convention in Cincinnati.
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Hillary Clinton plans to stress her support for American exceptionalism during a speech in the battleground state of OH, while arguing that Donald Trump has rejected the concept.
Trump’s isolationism extends in some ways to his signature campaign promise: that he will build a wall between the USA and Mexico and persuade Mexico to pay for it. He also said that “important email records will no longer be deleted and digitally altered”, or “bleached”, a reference to the personal emails Clinton said were deleted from her server.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., has warned Trump risked losing Arizona if he didn’t change his tone and take a more responsible approach to Mexico and border issues.
“We will stop apologizing for America, and we will start celebrating America”, he said. “More voters are turning to them as Clinton and Trump see their favorability numbers go back in the wrong direction”. “Hillary Clinton owes explanations for why she broke ethics agreements regarding foreign donations to her family foundation, gave preferential treatment to foundation donors as secretary of state, and why we should believe that her secret server wasn’t created to cover up the shady pay-to-play politics at her State Department”.
“And it certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again”.
But in a four-way matchup including third-party candidates, Clinton’s lead narrows to 41% over Trump’s 38%, with Libertarian Gary Johnson at 7% and Green Party nominee Jill Stein at 2%. For Trump, 31 percent of respondents said “honest” describes him while 64 percent said it does not. “It’s not just about differences over policy”, Clinton told an American Legion convention in Cincinnati.
The Clinton campaign did not return a request for comment.
The poll also said that 650 of 803 people would be “certain to vote”.
Clinton reached a new high in her unpopularity rating according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, making her just as unpopular as Donald Trump among registered voters.
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Speaking on Wednesday night to his supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump pledged to create “a special deportation task force” within the existing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency if he becomes president.
