“People who have nothing to hide don’t smash phones with hammers”. A majority of Clinton’s supporters say they’re less excited about voting this year than usual (55%) while most of Trump’s backers say they’re more excited this time around (56%).
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Clinton said Trump was “dead wrong” for saying his tax returns were not the concern of everyday Americans, despite every major presidential nominee since Richard Nixon releasing their taxes before the election. But Clinton holds an edge on foreign policy (56% to Trump’s 40%), enabling her to point to a wider range of national security credentials.
The poll, conducted from August 30 to September 2, found that 46 percent of likely voters prefer Clinton, while 42 percent prefer Trump and 4 percent would vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson.
The conflicting messages came as the candidates prepared to appear at an MSNBC forum Wednesday night on national security.
“Hillary likes to play tough with Russia”, Trump said. They described her as relishing going after Trump on this topic because she feels she knows it well and he doesn’t.
Since 1989, about 60 percent of the $500 million the industry spent on US elections has gone to the GOP and its candidates, according to the CRP data provided to the Journal.
“His whole campaign has been one long insult to all those who have worn the uniform”, the Democratic nominee said at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
“Who [ever] wins Tampa Bay wins the state of Florida”, Smith said.
In a national poll out on the same day from CNN, Trump has pulled ahead of Clinton by two points. That margin would be close to insurmountable for Trump on Election Day.
Sevugan said timing is also at play, though the focus on national security isn’t driven exclusively by the approaching September 11 anniversary.
“I take classification seriously”, she said.
But Trump, in the sky over OH aboard his private plane, told reporters the same day that he never spoke to Bondi and, in response to the criticism of Trump University, said, “Many of the attorney generals turned that case down because I’ll win that case in court”.
“It’s a matter of time” before another terror attack, he said.
Officials at the September 11th Memorial & Museum in NY have said that they did not extend formal invitations to either candidate or to the sitting president, in keeping with past practice. “You need someone who is gonna be able to do this”.
National security will be a focus all week.
Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign released a new television ad entitled, “Sacrifice”, that shows military veterans watching some of the NY businessman’s more provocative statements.
The dueling addresses occurred as the focus of the US battle for the White House shifted to national security virtually two months before the November 8 presidential election, with both Clinton and Trump set to participate in a televised forum on Wednesday hosted by a veteran’s group. And to military vets and their families, she pointed anew to his summertime dust-up with the Muslim parents of a slain American soldier.
“Our veterans deserve better”, reads a line at the end of the ad, which is airing in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Featuring a mushroom cloud, it touts Trump’s hawkish remarks about war and nuclear weapons.
Tim Kaine, who was telling a North Carolina audience that Trump has misled voters on his views on the Iraq war and intervention in Libya.
Some foreign policy experts have said that Russian Federation, which entered the Syrian civil war previous year to aid President Bashar al-Assad, isn’t a reliable partner in the fight against ISIS. I think all across the state we’re seeing the democrats are fired up. “I’ve had tremendous success”, Trump can be heard saying in the ad as a visual of a disabled veteran in a wheelchair is shown. “I know that that’s what has been alleged and never proven”.
Tuesday evening, as the Clinton plane was returning to NY from Florida, the traveling press corps tried its luck at engaging Clinton one more time with a campaign tradition: Rolling an orange with a question written on it down the aisle to the front of the plane.
Thirty percent of the vote will be non-white, “which was theoretically not good for Donald Trump, but it’s neck-and-neck”, he said. In contrast, he talked up Clinton’s familiarity with world leaders gleaned from her time as a US senator and secretary of state.
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She shrugged off calls for additional congressional inquiries into her email usage as nothing more than pandering to right-wing conspiracy theorists, suggesting that the FBI “resolved” all the questions into her email use during their investigation.
