While New York Magazine went with the headline: “Matt Lauer’s Pathetic Interview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Is the Scariest Thing I’ve Seen in This Campaign”.
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President Obama faced even higher expectations about his debate performances in 2008 and 2012 – in both races, about 6 in 10 said the president would outperform Sen. But he front loaded Clinton’s half-hour at the forum with questions about her emails. “What I did learn is that our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow what our experts said to do”, Trump said. She said her vote to authorize the Iraq War was a “mistake”, then vowed: “We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again and we are not putting ground troops into Syria”.
“Republicans are just in a awful dilemma trying to support a totally unqualified nominee, I have no sympathy for them, it’s their nominee”, she said.
Clinton added that she doesn’t want to be treated more gently than her GOP rival, but she argued that Trump taking the White House would be detrimental to USA national security.
Donald Trump raised $90 million in August, the campaign said Thursday.
Clinton said Trump’s praise of Putin as a better leader than Obama was “not just unpatriotic but also scary”.
And to Andrea Mitchell from NBC, who was trying to ask her something inaudible as Clinton was ready to stop: “I love you, Andrea”.
His position on the war is coming under increasing scrutiny as he attacks Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for voting to authorize the war while she was in the Senate.
“Look, I’m not asking for any special treatment, I know the road that I’m on, Ive been on it for 25 years”, she said.
One point The Times and others honed in on was the fact that Lauer did not challenge Trump on his assertion, which he’s made throughout the campaign, that he’d opposed the Iraq war from the beginning.
The Florida survey shows a pronounced gender and racial divide between Trump and Clinton. Clinton, who has cast Trump as dangerously ill-prepared to be commander in chief, tried to center the discussion on her foreign policy proposals. “So I am proud of the people who are supporting me”.
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In an earlier interview with Israeli TV, Clinton said jihadists are so eager for Trump to win the presidential election, they are offering this prayer to their God: “Oh please, Allah, make Trump president of America”. “She’s with the kids and I appreciate her”, he said.
