In the forum, Mr Trump also said: “I was totally against the war in Iraq”.
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It was also strategic: Donald Trump was out on the campaign trail drawing negative headlines almost every day, and there was no reason to risk a gaffe or controversial remark that might get in the way of that. Nonwhite voters favor her by an even wider margin, with 67 percent backing Clinton and 25 percent choosing Trump.
The Quinnipiac poll measured three other swing states: Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Clinton has said her experience in government as secretary of state and a USA senator makes her uniquely qualified for the White House, and that Trump’s series of controversial comments makes him temperamentally unfit for the office.
Clinton and Trump both get the support of 47 percent of likely voters in a head-to-head matchup, according to the Quinnipiac poll, released Thursday.
Mr Trump and rival Hillary Clinton had taken questions from military veterans.
Some of Trump’s foreign policy positions, such as his proposal to fight terrorism by imposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country, have alarmed not just Democrats but many in his own party’s leadership.
And so, in a press conference that lasted less than 20 minutes, Clinton achieved exactly what she set out to do: End the criticisms that she had gone the entire year without a press conference, and move the narrative beyond Thursday night’s forum. The Republican candidate was widely criticized recently when he called her a “co-founder”, along with Obama, of Islamic State.
Trump took the stage Friday before a fiery crowd of supporters who had just heard a blistering and vitriolic critique of Clinton’s email use from Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and federal prosecutor who loudly argued that Clinton had committed “crimes” and should have been prosecuted.
Trump and Clinton supporters went on the offensive on social media Wednesday night and Thursday morning, defending their candidates’ performances during the forum. Afterwards, some of his supporters shrugged off his comments about Putin.
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“What was really scary was he keeps talking about the secret plan that he has to defeat ISIS”, Mook said. North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes are key to either Trump or Clinton. “So I’ll just leave it at that”.
