Speaking on Monday, the Democratic presidential candidate emphasized her experience dealing with terrorism in the Unite States and overseas, while criticizing the response of her Republican opponent, Mr. Trump.
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A memo penned by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, circulated to donors and supporters and obtained by TIME, outlines in detail the campaign’s map to victory in November.
But while much of the foreign policy establishment has rallied around Clinton, Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, his promises to close US borders and his vows to aggressively profile potential terrorists have fueled his presidential bid.
Trump’s movement comes as many pollsters have switched to “likely voter” models, which try to predict the electorate based on factors like enthusiasm and past voting records.
Trump began his speech by thanking the members of the law enforcement community in the wake of the weekend’s bombings allegedly at the hands of Ahmad Khan Rahami. Her campaign even pulled down TV ads in the state.
Clinton touted her national security credentials at a hastily arranged news conference outside her campaign plane, accusing Trump for using the incidents to make “some kind of demagogic point”.
But while much of the foreign policy establishment has rallied around Clinton, Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, promises to close U.S. borders and vows to aggressively profile potential terrorists have fueled his presidential bid. Video showed her collapsing before being ushered into a van.
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson held 8 percent of the vote, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein had 3 percent, the poll said. The margin of error is 3.86 percentage points. This is another reason that when the issue is terrorism, many swing voters are inclined to think the answer is Trump.
Sadly, Meyers couldn’t say this to Trump’s face-in fact, until last week, the late-night host had jokingly banned the candidate from appearing on the show as a response to Trump’s ban of The Washington Post from his press events. That would be the first time a Republican presidential candidate has won NY since Ronald Reagan carried the state in his 1984 landslide victory. “But we should go much stronger than waterboarding”.
New Hampshire is now rated as “toss-up”, after previously having been rated a “lean” Democrat state. And new polling shows Trump up in Maine’s second congressional district, a perennial GOP target that has failed to deliver.
But Clinton, with deep unfavorability ratings of her own, is a far different candidate from Obama.
Not all the moves were in Trump’s favor.
Trump, who has in the past talked of the need for a resumption of harsh interrogation tactics like water boarding for terrorism suspects, said authorities need to “get information” from the bombing suspect “before it comes no longer timely”, but that instead he would probably be coddled. Voters split fairly evenly in trusting either Clinton or Trump to handle it – 47 percent Clinton, 44 Trump. (A June poll from Quinnipiac had the two even in the suburbs as well).
With fewer than 50 days until the election and Democrats increasingly anxious, Hillary Clinton’s top strategist on Tuesday night reassured supporters with a simple message: The odds are still in our favor.
Clinton leads Trump by 17 points in the Field Poll/University of California, Berkeley, survey out Tuesday, 50 percent to 33 percent.
Now, that has shrunk dramatically to 287-251.
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Trump’s history of questioning Obama’s birth certificate dates to at least 2011, when the businessman was contemplating a run for president.
