If elected president, Trump says he will give his top generals a “simple” instruction: Within 30 days, come up with a plan for “soundly and quickly defeating” the Islamic State group.
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Another survey, by The Washington Post, looking at all 50 states shows Mrs Clinton with a solid lead in terms of electoral college votes, and even strength in some traditional Republican strongholds. John McCain’s war-hero status and his fight with the Muslim parents of an American soldier killed in combat.
“His whole campaign has been one long insult to all those who have worn the uniform”, Clinton said on Tuesday in Tampa, just miles from MacDill Air Force Base, where 15,000 people work.
Last week, he suggested Trump wouldn’t stand up to a Russian cyberattack of the American election, and then criticized the “cozy bromance” between Trump and Putin.
Clinton said that in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she – as a NY senator – “worked to make our country safer and to rebuild NY and the Pentagon”. Under his leadership, we would be unrecognizable to the rest of the world.
“We are going to have to take those threats and attacks seriously”, Clinton told reporters traveling with her from OH to IL.
Clinton’s campaign early on Tuesday attempted to pre-empt any move by Trump to distance himself from his past statements about veterans and foreign policy by organizing a news conference with military veterans before Trump’s event in Virginia and by releasing a new television advertisement featuring veterans and their families.
While Trump has galvanized white, blue-collar men like perhaps no other Republican candidate in recent memory, the brash billionaire has turned off single women, independent voters and Hispanics – three crucial voting blocs.
Meanwhile, Trump extended a rare invitation to journalists to accompany him on his private plane from Cleveland to Youngstown, Ohio.
A new CNN/ORC poll found that both candidates have advantages on national security.
Trump has said regularly on the campaign trail that Clinton does not look presidential, which his critics have blasted as a sexist attack on the first female presidential nominee for a major political party.
The start of full-fledged campaigning opens a pivotal month, culminating in the first presidential debate September 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. He was questioned by retired Gen. Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defence Intelligence Agency who is a strong supporter. “He said we should, quote, ‘Get out of Iraq as quickly as possible'”. Trump has offered nothing but empty promises and divisive rhetoric. The foundation is run by Clinton, her husband and former president Bill Clinton, and their daughter Chelsea.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is talking up his own national security credentials as he begins a speech on the topic in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Kaine said in his speech that he did not need to “spin” Trump’s statements to win over US voters because they could stand on their own.
Kaine, who noted his own son’s service in the Marine Corps, is a member of both the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees.
The back-and-forth occurred as the focus of the USA battle for the White House shifted to national security, with both Clinton and Trump set to participate in a televised forum on Wednesday hosted by a veteran’s group.
To make his point, Kaine is pointing to news interviews in which Trump has appeared to be confused about the nation’s nuclear triad and said that he knows more than some American military generals. The group marks a traditionally loyal Republican constituency, although some have expressed concerns about Trump’s readiness to serve as commander-in-chief. All of this, he says, makes national security issues real and personal to him.
Pence will appear less than two months before Election Day.
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Any immigrants who want full citizenship must return to their countries of origin and get in line, he told reporters – but he would not rule out a pathway to legal status for the millions living in the US illegally, as he did in a long-awaited policy speech last week.
