Several hundred Donald Trump supporters filed into the Union League of Philadelphia to hear the Republican presidential candidate outline his national security proposals.
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The scheduled 2 p.m. appearance at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy is not open to the public.
Four of the 12 said they leaned toward Trump. He appeared Monday at the Canfield Fair near Youngstown, an area where he drew more votes than Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sik) during the swing state’s Republican presidential primary.
Trump laid blame for the spread of ISIS, the Syrian refugee crisis and the collapse of Libya on the foreign policies of President Barack Obama and Clinton, who formerly served secretary of state.
The FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server has produced one previously unreleased message related to the 2012 attack on a USA diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Her campaign said it had $68 million on hand.
Before conservatives cry bias, Wikipedia lays out Olsen’s job history in which former President George W. Bush appointed him to be Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s National Security Division. Later on Wednesday, both were due to lay out their stalls at a so-called “commander-in-chief” forum on the NBC network.
A sizable number of military and veteran voters say they would not be confident in Clinton or Trump’s ability to be an effective commander-in-chief of the nation’s military, but a slight majority would be confident in Trump (53 percent).
“I don’t think it should be outside of the military”, Trump said.
Both candidates believe they have the upper hand, with Clinton contrasting her experience with Trump’s unpredictability and the Republican arguing that Americans anxious about their safety will be left with more of the same if they elect Obama’s former secretary of state.
Trump said he plans to ask Congress to offset the costs of increased military spending.
In an address supporting his wife Hillary Clinton’s Democratic bid for the White House, Bill Clinton accused Trump of harkening to an America where blacks were not a part of the economy or political power.
And while Clinton’s super PACs have steadily raised checks of unlimited size and deployed their substantial resources on swing-state television, Trump’s are still sputtering, failing to reel in large checks and ceding television airwaves for much of the summer to Clinton allies. Eight of the 12 voters said they were unhappy about Clinton’s insistence that her emails did not contain classified material. Judicial Watch has filed numerous lawsuits seeking government documents related to the Democratic presidential nominee’s tenure as the nation’s top diplomat. Trump frequently uses the media as a foil and often complains about the press coverage he receives. News of the ban’s end was first reported by CNN.
Last month, he threatened to expand it to The New York Times.
The New York businessman, who has struggled at times to demonstrate a command of foreign policy, also seemed to acknowledge he does not now have a plan to address cyber security or the Islamic State group.
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Republican Donald Trump raised about $90 million in August in his campaign for the November 8 USA presidential election against Democrat Hillary Clinton, Fox News reported on Wednesday. The event will serve as something of a preview for voters of their highly anticipated trio debates.
