With the traditional Labor Day marker that start presidential campaigns in earnest, television outlets are getting ready to ride the momentum.
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Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will answer questions about national security, military affairs and veterans issues aboard the USS Intrepid in Manhattan on Wednesday night. The questions, asked by veteran reporter Matt, will come from NBC News and an audience of military veterans and active service members.
Clinton scoffed at Trump’s claim, saying “the secret is, he has no plan”.
Donald Trump will ask USA generals to present a plan to defeat Islamic State during the first 30 days of his administration, according to a list of proposals released by his campaign ahead of a speech in Philadelphia.
The appearances mark an intense, two-day focus on national security by Trump, who has offered tough rhetoric on the nation’s challenges overseas but few details.
“We want to deter, avoid and prevent conflict through our unquestioned military strength”, Trump declared of his Democratic opponent in his Wednesday speech, delivered inside the exclusive Union League of Philadelphia, which first allowed women in 1986.
The United States now spends more than $600 billion a year on the military, more than the next seven countries combined. John McCain and Trump’s criticism of the Khan family, the GOP nominee has worked hard to secure the support of veterans and US military members.
He went on to criticize Clinton as being “trigger-happy and very unstable” during her four years as secretary of state, asserting that her activities in that post produced “only turmoil, suffering and death”. “Virtually every decision she has made has been a loser”, Trump said.
Investments in cybersecurity and in the military will create new jobs and the “technologies of tomorrow”, Trump said.
Yet a broad majority, 78 percent, say they would favor a bill to allow those immigrants working in the USA illegally, who meet certain criteria, to stay and eventually apply for citizenship.
However, 60 percent of Clinton supporters said their vote for her would be more of “A vote for Hillary Clinton”, while 37 percent said it would be more of “A vote against Donald Trump”.
Trump, by contrast, “seems to support Russian interests at the expense of American ones”, Kaine said in a foreign policy speech in North Carolina.
Clinton dismissed the latest call for a new investigation into her email practices.
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Mr. Trump’s attack on Tuesday on Ms. Clinton and her policy in West Asia as Secretary of State was equally an assault on George W. Bush, the last Republican President who triggered the turmoil in the region with his “regime change” policies. Mr.
