Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton consulted national security advisers on Tuesday after weekend bomb blasts renewed fears of domestic attacks, as Republican rival Donald Trump accused her of pushing policies that made the United States less safe.
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Only 11 percent of respondents said that they would be excited if Trump wins the November 8 presidential election, while 12 percent said that they would be excited if Clinton prevails. Trump is insisting the US should “use whatever lawful methods are available” to get information from the Afghan immigrant arrested in this weekend’s bombings.
We could just as easily argue that the reason people hate Trump is because he’s a man.
“I’m much tougher than her on this frightful situation, but she goes around saying it’s a recruiting tool”, Trump said.
Hillary Clinton cast herself Monday as the most qualified to combat terrorism within the USA and overseas after weekend attacks in three states rattled Americans.
After Ms. Clinton left the State Department she got $21 million in two years for speeches from corporations that thought she could help them when she became president.
“I’m the only candidate in this race who’s been part of the hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield”, Clinton, a former secretary of state, told reporters.
“I don’t know”, Trump said.
“How fortunes have changed for Clinton and Trump in New Hampshire compared to when this campaign started in February”, said Patrick Murray, director of the nonpartisan Monmouth University Polling Institute, in a press release.
-White Voters. Trump 66, Clinton 20. We want to talk about the military.
TRUMP: Look, it’s a phony system. If defeating Trump means voting for Clinton – and it does – defeating the toxic ideology that surrounds him means she needs to take these movements’ advice seriously.
-White voters with no college degree.
Trump then called for increased, but “lawful” interrogation tactics to gain more intelligence about future terrorist attacks-a slightly different message than when he called for waterboarding and other “much worse” techniques in early July.
Clinton is vulnerable, especially when it comes to young voters, which is why she was in Philadelphia Monday to discuss her “Pennsylvania Millennials for Hillary” agenda. Her campaign acknowledges they need to do more to get millennials on board. The affable Fallon, who, admittedly, asks softball questions of everyone, clearly sees politics as a lane he should steer clear of.
This election marks the first presidential campaign where millennials make up the single largest generation among US adults, having surpassed baby boomers during the past four years. In 2016, Sanders trumped Clinton among young voters by a whopping margin of 71 percent to 28 percent, according to a summary of exit polls given by ABC pollster Gary Langer.
Trump and Clinton supporters expressed similar levels of frustration, 55 percent and 53 percent respectively, and differed little in their feelings of disgust, 53 percent and 48 percent.
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On Monday, U.S. authorities arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami in following a shootout with police in nearby Linden, New Jersey, in connection with the Saturday night bombing in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.
