However, Clinton leads Trump in the other two key issues, foreign policy (56% for Clinton, 40% for Trump) and immigration (49% vs. 47%).
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The Republican presidential nominee has been aggressively courting veterans this week.
The conflicting messages came as the candidates prepared to appear at an MSNBC forum Wednesday night on national security. Trump declared “our country is going to hell” because of policies she would make even worse.
In another mirror-image split, Clinton does 31 points better among nonwhite voters than whites in the poll, while Trump does 31 points better among white voters than nonwhites.
Speaking in North Carolina on Tuesday in what Hillary Clinton’s campaign billed as a major national security address, the Virginia senator performed the customary role of a running mate, seeking to dismantle Trump’s qualifications to lead the nation on the world stage while praising Clinton’s.
Clinton said sometimes these types of logistical dust-ups are “annoying” but they’re not the reason a president attends these types of meetings.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign fired back at Donald Trump’s suggestion that Clinton didn’t have a “presidential look”.
“He should not be trying to talk up or talk down the economy, and he should not be adding the Fed to his long list of institutions and individuals that he is maligning and otherwise attacking”, she said. “Something odd is clearly going on”, Kaine said, pointing not just to Trump’s request that Russia hack Clinton’s emails, but also to the connections between Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and the Russian regime.
He said he would suspend the resettlement of Syrian refugees into the United States, start toward repealing and replacing President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare plan, and begin the first steps toward building a wall along the US southern border with Mexico. He represents Virginia in the Senate and serves on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees.
The question, written with a marker, asked who Clinton would rather have dinner with – Trump or Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Clinton’s 30-second ad features a series of veterans and families listening to Trump’s proclamations that he knows “more about ISIS than the generals do” and that U.S. Sen.
“You have illegal immigrants that she wants. treated better than veterans”.
“I think we’re up to 89, but who’s counting?” she quipped, noting how several Republican national security figures openly support her.
Donald Trump’s campaign has released an open letter from retired military leaders promoting his candidacy. Trump said of Carly Fiorina, in an interview with Rolling Stone a year ago.
In a rare news conference aboard her new campaign plane, Clinton said she is concerned about “credible reports about Russian government interference in our elections”. And he looked at a sitting president and said he wasn’t American.
Trump’s proposed wall along the border with Mexico provokes the largest gap between Clinton and Trump backers, 82 percent of Trump backers support the wall, 89 percent of Clinton voters oppose it.
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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.
