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”.
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The intensified and highly personal attacks come as the rival campaigns enter the crucial window between Labor Day and Election Day.
Hillary Clinton has advantages heading into the final stretch of the campaign that any presidential candidate would envy: a fleet of popular surrogates, a mountain of cash and an opponent who is often sidetracked by self-inflicted wounds.
The poll released Tuesday has Clinton leading Trump 46 to 45 percent.
“Let me just tell you about choking”, Trump fumed to ABC. Unwilling to allow Trump to modify his immigration stances, she said his address later that night in Arizona amounted to a “doubling down on his absurd plan to send a deportation force to round up 16 million people”.
Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 19 points – 55 percent to 36 percent – among voters who are now serving or have previously served in the US military, according to the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll. “In this race, at this time, she deserves your vote”, they conclude.
Trump is clobbering Clinton in the state where she once served as first lady, Arkansas, where the former reality TV star holds a 13-point lead.
“The race will tighten as we approach November 8, but Hillary Clinton continues to be in a commanding position and the Electoral College math tells us she will remain in the lead”, said Neil Levesque, the executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics and Political Library at Saint Anselm College.
Nonetheless, polls show Trump has more support from the military community.
Trump is to use his Philadelphia speech to accuse Clinton of backing “military adventurism” for her handling of conflicts in Libya and the Middle East while she was Obama’s secretary of state from 2009-13. “People who have nothing to hide don’t bleach their emails or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law”, Trump said.
The candidates have less than three weeks before the first of three scheduled presidential debates – expected to be the most watched moments of an already raucous campaign. The provision, adopted over five year ago, set limits on defense spending up until the fiscal year for 2021. “If creating jobs and saving lives is bad, I guess you can zing me with it”.
Trump, meanwhile, has been hammering away at questions surrounding the Clinton Foundation.
She took questions for more than 20 minutes on her plane for a second straight day.
Clinton pushed back, saying Trump has lagged in securing key military supporters compared to past Republican nominees including John McCain and Mitt Romney.
“I think it is a fundamental issue about him in this campaign that we´re going to talk about in one way or another for the next 62 days”. The Peace Index that month found 40 percent thought Clinton would be better for Israel’s interest and 31 percent thought Trump would be.
While Clinton repeated her charge that Trump is “temperamentally unfit” for office, Trump assured veterans in Virginia Beach that he was in their corner, and used the opportunity to slam Clinton´s ineffectiveness as a top diplomat and politician.
“You have illegal immigrants that she wants. treated better than veterans”. In addition, Trump visited the flood ravaged Louisiana before President Obama and Clinton.
Farmville resident Cathy Pietro said she was pleased with Trump’s speech, too.
Trying to emphasize his military support, Trump’s campaign released a letter on Tuesday from 88 retired generals and admirals citing an urgent need for a “course correction” in America’s national security policy.
Trump said Monday that “I think people don’t care”.
“To those African Americans and Hispanics suffering in crime and poverty, I say very simply, give Donald Trump a chance”, with the audience joining him on the last few words.
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Trump leads 55% to 36% among veterans and active-duty service members, according to a new NBC/SurveyMonkey poll.
