On the U.S. intervention in Libya in 2011, Clinton rejected Trump’s criticism of her support for the effort as secretary of state.
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Back in North Carolina – home to eight military bases – Hillary Clinton attacked rival Donald Trump’s Wednesday night performance at a town hall on national security. But “resume vs. resume, judgment vs. judgment, this election is no contest”, they noted.
“This isn’t the first time Donald Trump has had a problem looking at someone different from himself”. Green Party nominee Jill Stein is not on the ballot in the state, but voters can write her in.
New polling released Thursday shows a competitive presidential race in some of the most crucial swing states.
Clinton was viewed as more likely to change her political positions, with 51 percent of voters saying she is more likely to flip-flop, compared to 42 percent who believed Trump was more likely to switch positions.
Clinton powered through a coughing fit at a Labor Day festival at a Cleveland park, sharply criticizing Trump’s recent trip to Mexico as “an embarrassing global incident”.
The number of states projected for Clinton has dropped over the past few weeks.
In a head-to-head matchup, the poll found that Trump is ahead of Clinton 46 percent to 45 percent. But the negative tone of the campaign could dampen turnout and make Clinton’s task more hard. Tim Kaine, Mrs. Clinton’s running mate, were in the state earlier this week.
While the assumption that the less educated white voters sustain Mr. Trump is borne out by the polls, his appeal is not limited to that segment.
But moderator Matt Lauer doggedly pressed her about her handling of emails from a private server as President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state.
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“He wants Donald Trump to win this election, in part because of the romance that we’ve seen between the two”, Morell, a Clinton supporter, said of Trump in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union”. It’s the kind of day Clinton needs to avoid. That’s why she needs to start chipping away at her trust deficit now, so that if elected, she will have some public goodwill as she tries to lead the nation and work with Congress. The issue has raised questions about whether she can be trusted to serve as president.
