Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks with members of the media at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 19, 2016.
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Between last Sunday’s political talk shows and this Sunday, Hillary Clinton collapsed trying to get into a van and her campaign was caught lying about her health, three terrorist attacks took place on American soil, and Donald Trump started surging in the polls.
The starkly different responses from the dueling White House hopefuls came after a bombing in NY, a mass stabbing in Minnesota and a New Jersey pipe blast – all on Saturday.
It’s also unclear whether the limited human toll of the weekend’s attacks will dilute their impact on an election still 49 days away – in an election season in which the narrative often seems to shift by the hour.
The attacks distilled contrasting approaches on national security and in campaign style, with Democrat Clinton touting experience and patient determination – and Republican Trump channeling outrage and demanding radical change. “We must be smart!”
For her part, Clinton has chose to forgo the standard foreign tour as a candidate because her aides feel she doesn’t need to burnish her foreign policy credentials.
“This threat is real but so is our resolve”.
The Indiana governor told Limbaugh during a phone interview that the U.S.is indeed “at war with the ISIS caliphate”, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
From Trump’s point of view, the new terror scares play directly into a vision of a nation under siege and which he must get Americans to buy into if he is to win in November. “Our country’s been weak”. We’re letting people in by the thousands and tens of thousands. I’ve been saying you’ve got to stop it, Trump told Fox News.
“So I am absolutely in favor of, and have always been an advocate, for tough vetting.not just people who come here to settle, but we need a better visa system”.
An Afghan immigrant wanted for questioning in the bombings was captured in New Jersey Monday after being wounded in a gun battle with police, authorities said. Again, Clinton used a memorable phrase to state something that a large proportion of the country sees as patently obvious.
President Barack Obama suggested at a NY fundraiser that American society is sexist, which is why Hillary Clinton is struggling to beat Donald Trump in the polls.
The results mirror some recent national polls that show Clinton’s lead narrowing in battleground states.
But among white non-Hispanics, Clinton’s lead over Trump is just six points.
Both Clinton and Trump met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Monday, as the grueling presidential contest enters its final weeks.
TRUMP: He has repeatedly endorsed racial profiling in the United States as a counterterrorism tool.
She’s scheduled to meet with the leaders of Egypt, Ukraine and Japan later in the day in New York City.
If all you’re doing is watching Fox News, and listening to Rush Limbaugh, and reading some of the blogs that are churning out a lot of misinformation on a regular basis, then it’s very hard for you to think that you’re going to vote for somebody who you’ve been told is taking the country in the wrong direction.
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In her statement, Clinton said her plan to combat terrorism “includes launching an intelligence surge to help identify and thwart attacks before they can be carried out, and to spot lone-wolf attackers”.
