As Election Day nears, it will be interesting to see what unfolds.
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To get to the 270 electoral votes needed to win, the Republican hopes to hold onto the red states Mitt Romney carried in 2012 and flip additional states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida that supported President Obama. Find how how your state is leaning and learn how to register here. Pence called it “inarguable” that Putin is a stronger leader than the U.S. president.
DONALD TRUMP: I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble.
Donald Trump unleashed a firestorm of criticism from liberals, conservatives and those in between when he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
“Putin is an aggressor that does not share our interests”. I’m not sure. You tell me.
“What is Aleppo?” Johnson asked. The renewed American debate that personally drags Mr. Putin into the picture is taking place even as the Obama administration is in a frenetic effort to strike a deal with Russian Federation on Syria.
JOHN YANG: Foreign policy also figured prominently today for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, though he may have wished it hadn’t. Johnson disagreed but didn’t explain his flub.
The Republican presidential nominee insisted during a presidential forum Wednesday night that he has a private blueprint for defeating the extremist group. Trump claims you can check an Esquire magazine article from 2004 for proof that he was against the war.
Problem is: neither of these help his case. Clinton was repeatedly challenged on her controversial email use at the State Department and her vote as a senator for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His key piece of advice: “Be very careful” about your BlackBerry.
“Just days after the war started, I was quoted as saying the war is a mess”, Trump said, calling it “more evidence that I had opposed the war from the start”.
When their bid for office falls flat, their campaign warchest lives on. Both candidates believe they have the upper hand.
“But broaden the lens to take in the almost two-thirds of poll respondents who say they are at least fairly certain of their vote and their likelihood of casting a ballot and the picture flips, with Clinton holding a 48 per cent-42 per cent lead”, the poll found. They’re lashing out at each other.
“It suggests he will let Putin do whatever Putin wants to do and then make excuses for him”, Clinton said. The mainstream media wants Clinton’s email story to go away, clearly. Super PACs can raise unlimited amounts of money from donors but cannot coordinate directly with the candidate.
“She is the corrupt establishment”, Trump said.
Many may be aware that they are disliked, but the magnitude of unpopularity is astounding.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meets with students and educators before speaking about school choice at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy in Cleveland, Sept. 8, 2016. “It’s an odd election year”.
