“Despite close numbers, Hillary Clinton is poised to win by dominating the issue dimensions of governing, caring, temperament and being for the middle class”, said pollster Celinda Lake, a Democrat and president of Lake Research Partners, a group that conducted the poll with the university.
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Mr Trump released a letter in which 88 retired generals and admirals endorsed him, a revelation dismissed by Mrs Clinton.
Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will release his full medical records, reversing a long-held position that he would do so only if his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, first released detailed medical documents of her own.
“We believe that such a change can only be made by someone who has not been deeply involved with, and substantially responsible for, the hollowing out of our military and the burgeoning threats facing our country around the world”, the military leaders wrote. “We don’t know exactly what it is, but we’re getting better guesses about what it probably is”, she said in Tampa, Florida.
The CNN poll showing Trump edging ahead seems to indicate that he had weathered a hard August, when he for a second time shuffled his top campaign aides, feuded with a Muslim couple whose son, a USA military officer, was killed in fighting in Iraq more than a decade ago, and offered voters conflicting versions of how he would change US immigration policies.
The two also exchanged shots about national security, with Mr Trump warning that Mrs Clinton would be unable to stand up to adversaries like President Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation.
Hillary Clinton has advantages heading into the final stretch of the campaign that any presidential candidate would envy: a fleet of popular surrogates, a mountain of cash and an opponent who is often sidetracked by self-inflicted wounds.
The Clinton campaign has repeatedly attacked Trump over his grasp of foreign policy issues, scrutinizing his temperament in an effort to raise questions about how he would conduct global diplomacy.
United States presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump exchanged insults rooted in the theme of national security on Tuesday.
The Republican White House contender said the Mexican president violated some “ground rules” by admitting that the two did actually discuss payment of his proposed border wall between the two countries, but added, “that’s ok”.
“I am also going to notify all countries that refuse to take back unsafe illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in this country that they will lose access to our visa programs if they continue to do so”.
While Clinton is a very unpopular candidate in the U.S., Trump’s outlandish comments and bombastic bravado have gotten him into hot water with moderate voters. Clinton has repeatedly criticized Trump for manufacturing some of his signature products like Trump ties and Trump furniture in overseas factories in China and Turkey.
Monday, Clinton fielded just 12 questions from the traveling press embedded with her campaign during an impromptu press gaggle, which is not a press conference.
“Trump doesn’t have credible plans for these challenges”.
“I don’t think the poll is credible and I’ll tell you why”, said Mackowiack.
Trump assured veterans in Virginia Beach that he was in their corner, and used the opportunity to slam Clinton’s ineffectiveness as a top diplomat and politician. Trump then launched into a series of actions he says he would take on his first day in office, if elected.
“I think if [Hillary] went to Mexico, she would have had a total failure”, Trump said at timestamp 5:40 of the interview.
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Clinton’s 25-minute question-and-answer session was her first extensive availability with reporters since early December.
