Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, pledging a major new military buildup, and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton get a chance on Wednesday to show how they would lead the USA armed forces as commander-in-chief.
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As many as 88 retired USA military generals and officials on Tuesday issued an open letter to bolster Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, praising his position on national security. And he would ask the Joint Chiefs of Staff to conduct “a thorough review” of the nation’s cyber defenses to determine all vulnerabilities.
The forum comes as an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll released Wednesday showed Trump leading rival Clinton by 19 points among voters now serving or previously serving in the US military.
So I would strongly urge that those of you who have chose to support either Clinton or Trump to tell your candidate that if they want the support of Independents like me – and they are going to need it – they need to tell their candidate to demand that we can hear all the viable candidates speak their piece.
The speech marks the second time in six days that Trump has campaigned in Philadelphia.
The United States now spends more than $600 billion a year on the military, more than the next seven countries combined.
Among all voters, 59 percent said they would not be confident in Trump’s ability as commander in chief. According to notes released from Clinton’s interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, she said she relied on others with knowledge about handling classified files.
Trump’s team has worked aggressively in recent days to turn deflect such criticism back at Clinton.
Hillary Clinton’s running mate framed Trump an “untested candidate”, calling him “emotionally volatile, fact-challenged, self-obsessed and inexperienced”. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will appear separately to answer national security questions before an audience of veterans and service members.
Though he will not face his rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, on stage, the event could serve as a warm-up to their much anticipated first presidential debate, scheduled to take place on September 26.
For Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, key parts of the party base – Arizona, Georgia, Texas – were under threat, the poll suggested, even as he puts pressure on Clinton in states such as Pennsylvania, where she recently enjoyed a almost double-digit lead, the Guardian reported.
Trump will deliver another speech Wednesday evening, at the convention of New York’s Conservative Party. Congress, however, has twice approved legislation that has relieved those cuts, allowing for increased spending on the military and domestic programs.
“Apparently Trump said if there had been the kerfuffle about the stairs and the press, he would have just stayed on the plane and gone home”.
His position on the sequester has been even more murky.
The next president will certainly have to deal with sequestration cuts, which are limits to government spending that were put in place by a 2011 law.
He called for hundreds more new US ships, planes and submarines, and vowed to train thousands more combat troops as well as develop a “state of the art” missile defense system, starting with modernizing 22 Navy cruisers at a cost of about $220 million apiece.
Trump, trying to emphasize his military support, released a letter from 88 retired generals and admirals citing an urgent need for a “course correction” in America’s national security policy.
Clinton has remained dogged by questions about her honesty, her willingness to shade the truth.
“As [former Texas Gov.] Ann Richards often said, people often prefer to discuss ‘hair, hemlines and husbands, ‘ and I think when the conversation moves there, the opponent doesn’t want the real conversation of the business of the American people to be the focus”.
The Dallas Morning News endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate Wednesday, a first in 75 years and 20 elections.
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On Tuesday, Trump promised to convene his military commanders soon after taking office with “a simple instruction” aimed at the Islamic State group. He laughs. He says he has a secret plan to defeat Isis.
