CBS2’s Dick Brennan reported a CNN poll showed Trump topping Clinton 45 to 43 percent among likely voters.
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Clinton had sharp words for the Republican nominee, saying Trump was “dead wrong” in saying that his tax returns were not the concern of everyday Americans, despite every major presidential nominee since Richard Nixon releasing their taxes before the election.
Clinton is promoting a pathway to citizenship for numerous 11 million people living in the shadows, while Trump wants to curtail immigration and require that those who wish to gain legalized status must leave the country first. John McCain, the Khan family, his ties to Russian Federation and his remarks about North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
“Our veterans deserve better”, reads a line at the end of the ad, which is airing in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
The conflicting messages came as the candidates prepared to appear at an MSNBC forum on national security.
Trump followed up his Virginia event by meeting with the wives of US military personnel stationed at nearby installations.
The presidential race appears to be tightening as a new national poll shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton.
The Justice Department’s decision didn’t stop Trump from arguing that Clinton is guilty of federal crimes, and his supporters agreed, repeatedly chanting, “Lock her up!”
Republicans, too, have questioned Trump’s capacity to serve as commander in chief. Dozens of GOP national security leaders released a letter last month warning that he would risk the nation’s “national security and well-being”.
Trump spoke in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America”. And Trump’s excited a lot of people and he scares a lot of others who’ll be asking ‘is this the guy I want protecting me and my family?
Immigration, though considered Trump’s hallmark issue after he rose to fame proclaiming that he would build a wall on the border with Mexico, is one of the issues on which Trump perhaps has fluctuated the most.
He added that had Clinton gone to Mexico, the trip would have been “a total failure”. It was a near-encounter that even forced the Trump press corps to the side of the road as Clinton’s motorcade whizzed by. “I’ve been just waiting for this moment”, she said.
“She’s a disaster in so many different ways, folks”, he said.
Clinton is fighting to garner more voter support in key states such as Florida, a central element in both parties’ strategies to win the White House.
In contrast, he talked up Clinton’s familiarity with world leaders gleaned from her time as a US senator and secretary of state. “We’re going to have real plans, not claims and secret plans”, Clinton told a crowd of about 1,500 at the University of South Florida.
There is also no denying the fact she and her campaign are still feeling the heat over the controversy with her emails and the Clinton Foundation.
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Clinton is trying to raise questions about Trump’s temperament and fitness for office given his history of incendiary rhetoric, such as declaring President Barack Obama “the founder of ISIS”, an acronym for the Islamic State militant group.
