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His Isn’t A ‘Serious’ Prez Campaign

With this one brief news conference, Clinton signaled loud and clear: I’ve done this before. This is how you respond to a seemingly easy question with an answer that lays out the stakes for the American public and the press, and clearly dispenses of Donald Trump because he’s a reality TV show fool, not a serious presidential candidate.

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Mrs Clinton, many Democrats and even some in his own Republican party balked.

“The problem is, Hillary Clinton is trigger-happy”. The Republican nominee told attendees they would “never have this opportunity again”.

Clinton at length discussed the news that North Korea had conducted another underground nuclear test, saying it was yet another reminder of the threats the United States and its allies face. After a summer of success at the Conventions and the Olympics, we broke more new ground Wednesday night with the first ever Commander-in-Chief Forum.

Trump also injected drama into the debate this week by endorsing Russian President Vladimir Putin as a strong leader who has fared better than US President Barack Obama. Trump on Thursday appeared in an interview with Larry King on Russia Today, though his campaign said they believed the interview was only for King’s podcast.

As Clinton’s comments gained traction online, campaign spokesman Nick Merrill tweeted, “obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt right leaders are with Trump”.

She returned to the microphone, laughing in exasperation. “It is beyond one’s imagination to have a candidate for president praising a Russian autocrat like Vladimir Putin”. “I would say she’s got at least a 60 percent chance of winning”.

Lauer allowed Trump’s false claim that he opposed the USA invasion of Iraq to go unchallenged, while lingering on the issue of Clinton’s handling of email during the Democratic nominee’s tenure as secretary of State.

Clinton’s campaign, in an effort to paint Trump as a national security risk, has kept close tabs on former defense officials who have endorsed the former secretary of state – particularly those who worked in Republican administrations.

Clinton has focused more heavily on fundraising than Democratic strategists had hoped would be necessary at this stage, partly to help Democrats running for Congress and state offices who would be useful to Clinton if she is president and partly to hold off further erosion in the polls. Among them were former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Richard Fontaine – a former foreign policy advisor to U.S. Sen.

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Clinton also echoed her campaign on Friday when she urged her supporters – some of whom paid $50,000 to attend the fundraiser with Streisand – to not get complacent.

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