Mr Trump has edged ahead of Mrs Clinton in a new CNN/ORC poll, at 45 per cent to 43 per cent among likely voters, while an NBC News poll of registered voters shows Mrs Clinton’s lead holding at six percentage points – 48 per cent to 42 per cent. As word spread about Boykin, though, there was local backlash against his heated language.
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Clinton’s military backers argue that Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim immigrants would alienate US allies in the Middle East. And to military vets and their families, she pointed anew to his summertime dust-up with the Muslim parents of a slain American soldier.
Campaigning in Tampa yesterday, Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump’s agenda on national security, explaining why the Republican nominee is “unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States”.
In Greenville on Tuesday evening, Trump debuted a foreign policy line of attack against Clinton, saying that she favors “military adventurism, rushing to invade countries. and then inviting the refugees into our country creating power vacuums” that creates terror groups like the Islamic State.
Donald Trump needs to flip blue states, but the 50 state map shows that the Republican nominee is such a weak candidate that he is making solidly Republican states competitive.
In the ad, their reactions are juxtaposed with footage of Trump saying that he knows more about Islamic State than U.S. military generals, criticizing U.S. Senator John McCain for being captured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and comparing what he called his own sacrifices as a businessman to those of parents of slain soldiers.
Really? First, Donald Trump has assured Americans he already has a plan to defeat ISIS, so it’s not clear why he would convene military leaders and ask them to give him what he claims to already have. Until those problems are resolved, he said he would allow veterans to seek treatment from private doctors or hospitals free of charge. “If you want more happy Labour Days, you know who to vote for”, she added.
Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine was in North Carolina.
Clinton will go first and take questions from moderator Matt Lauer and members of the audience – which will largely be comprised of veterans and active service members – for 30 minutes before Trump takes the stage.
McLawhorn said an analysis by Mark Zandi, a former economic adviser to Arizona Sen.
In an editorial published Tuesday titled “Donald Trump is no Republican”, the paper’s editors rebuked the GOP hopeful, advising Texas voters that Trump is “not qualified to serve as president and does not deserve your vote”.
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CNN has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment on the Morning News’ editorial, but did not immediately receive a response.
