Trump released a letter in which 88 retired generals and admirals endorsed him, a revelation dismissed by Clinton.
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“We believe that such a change can only be made by someone who has not been deeply involved with, and substantially responsible for, the hollowing out of our military and the burgeoning threats facing our country around the world”, the military leaders wrote.
Voters view Trump as being the more honest candidate, but they prefer Clinton’s temperament when it comes to being best suited to be commander in chief.
Tuesday evening, as the Clinton plane was returning to NY from Florida, the traveling press corps tried its luck at engaging Clinton one more time with a campaign tradition: Rolling an orange with a question written on it down the aisle to the front of the plane. The campaign released a television ad Tuesday featuring veterans watching some of Trump’s more outlandish remarks about the military, and a super-PAC backing Clinton put out a commercial painting Trump as overly eager to use nuclear weapons. John McCain, a former prisoner of war.
And her super PAC, Priorities USA, is launching a $5 million ad buy in the swing states North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Iowa and New Hampshire on Friday with a spot titled “I Love War”.
The contours of the race remain relatively unchanged, according to the CNN poll.
The pair is also set to appear at an MSNBC forum on Wednesday night on national security. The RealClear national polling average earlier this week indicated Ms. Clinton leading by 4.1 points, about half as much as her lead in early August.
The Justice Department’s decision didn’t stop Trump from arguing that Clinton is guilty of federal crimes, and his supporters agreed, repeatedly chanting, “Lock her up!”
Donald Trump frequently holds press conferences and impromptu gaggles (his traveling press corps still travels on a separate plane).
Republican political analyst and Trump supporter, Ed Pozzuoli, said as more Americans focus in on the race, continued controversy of Clinton’s trustworthiness is chipping away at her lead.
Clinton also repeated her charge that Trump is “temperamentally unfit” for the office. Dozens of GOP national security leaders released a letter last month warning that Trump would risk the nation’s “national security and well-being”. While Ms. Clinton’s grasp of policy and patience for detail are far superior to Mr. Trump, it is unclear as to how their face-off will play out. Clinton added, as though to acknowledge the slight irony of her initial comment.
Trump has edged ahead of Clinton in a new CNN/ORC poll, at 45 per cent to 43 per cent among likely voters, while an NBC News poll of registered voters shows Clinton’s lead holding at six percentage points – 48 per cent to 42 per cent. “And she didn’t have the energy to go to Mexico”. “And she didn’t have the energy to go to Mexico”, he said. But nevertheless, I take it seriously’.
Trump has expressed praise and expressed admiration for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, among others, in the past.
Clinton’s 25-minute question-and-answer session was her first extensive availability with reporters since early December.
Clinton, in the national eye for three decades, shrugged off the intense nature of the Republican attacks against her, including a call for a fresh congressional investigation of the Clinton Foundation following reports that donors gained inappropriate access to her while she was secretary of state.
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The former secretary of state flatly said “No”, when asked in an ABC News interview whether she’d be willing to accept the Mexican president’s invitation to visit the country, as Trump did last week.
