“It is a great honor to have such fantastic support from so many distinguished retired military leaders”, Trump said in a statement. He vowed to give military leaders a “simple instruction” soon after taking office: “They will have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS”.
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The conflicting messages came as the candidates prepared to appear at an MSNBC forum tonight on national security.
“We want to deter, avoid and prevent conflict through our unquestioned military strength”, Donald Trump declared in opposition of Hillary Clinton in his Wednesday speech, delivered inside the exclusive Union League of Philadelphia, which first allowed women in Y 1986.
The NBC News/Survey Monkey poll showed 55 percent of voters who are now serving or have previously served in the US military support Trump as opposed to 36 percent who back Clinton. And he is making a strong push for the veteran vote – in a state where many current and former military personnel live.
A new survey from The Washington Post/SurveyMonkey shows the race for president between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is a dead heat in Texas.
“Putin looks at Hillary Clinton and he smiles”. Those who trust Clinton on immigration overwhelmingly say the nation’s top immigration priority should be finding a way for those in the country illegally to stay (71 percent), while the Trump backers are more focused on stopping people from entering the country illegally (56 percent). The forum could serve as a warm-up to their highly anticipated first presidential debate, scheduled for September 26 in NY.
With Donald Trump as the party’s new standard-bearer, it’s impossible to say.
He also will propose eliminating “sequester” military cuts enacted in 2011, enhancing the country’s sea-based missile defense, and tasking US military generals with devising a plan, within 30 days of him taking office, to defeat ISIS.
Trump’s stated opposition to the Iraq war from the beginning is “one of the main rationales for his candidacy, and it’s completely made up”, Kaine said.
Trump’s proposal to lift the sequester limits on military spending won praise from Republicans on Capitol Hill even as some acknowledged the reality that Democratic opposition might render it hard to achieve.
While SurveyMonkey says it has access to a pool of almost 3 million Americans, it may not be a representative sample of US voters since less than 1 per cent of the nation’s population has any chance at all of being surveyed.
A senior adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share details ahead of the speech, said Trump would ensure the additional spending is fully paid for.
The United States now spends more than $600 billion a year on the military, more than the next seven countries combined.
Trump, the Republican nominee, released an open letter early Tuesday from 88 retired generals and admirals citing an urgent need for a “course correction” on America’s national security policy.
Clinton faced the press again Tuesday and slammed Trump for unlawfully using funds from his charitable foundation for a large political contribution to a group tied to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi – while she was deciding whether to join a multi-state lawsuit against Trump University.
But questions remain, even in his party. We have learned that Donald Trump has been bankrupt in his company six times.
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Trump asked. “Let her release her emails and I’ll release my tax returns immediately”.
