But despite his campaign and joint political committees’ best effort, it was still 40% less than the record-busting $143 million haul Hillary Clinton and her allied committees’ pulled off, according to CNN. Then had to rush her along.
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“You’ve got to make sure you’re doing it to both candidates with the same set of rules”, Jamieson said.
That suggests that Mrs. Clinton is hurt more than Mr. Trump by the presence of minor party candidates on the OH ballot. “The Iraq War began in March 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying Trump’s timeline”, Esquire wrote. The bulk of the attacks, however, centered on Lauer’s failure to challenge Trump on the Republican’s assertion that he opposed the war in Iraq from its beginning, despite evidence of him supporting the war in a 2002 interview.
Clinton elaborated on those remarks at the Thursday press conference, saying putting a significant number of USA troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria would “fulfill one of (ISIS’) dearest wishes which is to drag the United States back into a ground war in that region”.
Throughout the campaign, Trump has insisted he had a secret plan to beat ISIL and that he knew more about the Middle East-based group than the generals.
“Last night was yet another test and Donald Trump failed yet again”.
Trump castigated President Obama for setting “a certain date” for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, which he implied gave rise to the chaos now enveloping that country. Both candidates believe they have the upper hand, with Clinton contrasting her experience with Trump’s unpredictability and the Republican arguing that Americans anxious about their safety will be left with more of the same if they elect Obama’s former secretary of state. None of the questions were adversarial, and Clinton even bantered with one of the reporters about his choice of headwear.
“It is impossible to moderate anything without being criticized“, said Lehrer, who did 12 presidential and vice presidential debates.
With just two months until election day, national security has emerged as a centrepiece issue in the White House race.
Will Holt jump in and fact-check? “Believe me.” Was that the truth? “It’s up to the other person to catch them on that”. Twitter exploded with complaints, with a new hashtag, “Lauering the bar”.
The very objective of an interviewer is now up for debate.
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With Today NBC not commenting, but executives know the pressure is now on Lester Holt, Lauer’s colleague, moderating the first presidential debate in two and a half weeks. The New York Times declared Thursday, “Matt Lauer Loses the War in a Battle Between the Candidates”.
