Both candidates believe they have the upper hand, with Clinton contrasting her experience with Trump’s unpredictability and the Republican arguing that Americans anxious about their safety will be left with more of the same if they elect Obama’s former secretary of state.
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Trump, who has faced backlash from both parties in recent days for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin, was interviewed by Larry King, a veteran American journalist whose show airs Thursday evenings on RT America, the US partner of a network originally called Russia Today.
The forum underscored a debate that’s rapidly becoming a focal point in the race: Is the first female presidential nominee of a major USA party being judged fairly?
Clinton also called Trump’s comments “reckless and risky”. “I’d rather it be Hillary and myself, because we’re the only two with a chance of winning”.
On Friday morning campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said “Mr. Trump went on his podcast”.
Clinton’s campaign acknowledges that some of her liabilities stem from self-imposed errors, including her difficulty explaining the decision to install a private email server in her NY home. Asked by King if he agreed with Putin’s assessment, Trump declined to pass judgment.
Before that, Trump was widely condemned in July when, in an off-handed remark, he called on the Russian government to intervene in the election by releasing thousands of Clinton’s private emails.
“I think this will be the last Electionthat the Republicans have a chance of winning because you’re going to have people flowing across the border, you’re going to have illegal immigrants coming in and they’re going to be legalised and they’re going to be able to vote and once that all happens you can forget it”, he said. Clinton called the North Korea test “outrageous and unacceptable”, saying she supports imposing additional US and United Nations sanctions. (Seems to me Obama is the one who lets Putin do whatever he wants, but never mind.) But Hillary doesn’t even attempt to do that here.
He was not impressed.Trevor Noah blasted Matt Lauer’s performance as moderator of the Commander-in-Chief Forum with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during a segment on The Daily Show on Thursday, September 8. The FBI has said she was “extremely careless” in handling sensitive information. He stood by a previous comment that appeared to blame military sexual assaults on men and women serving together, but added he would not seek to remove women from the military. And for the first time, he opened the door to granting legal status to people living in the US illegally who join the military. “I don’t view myself as cold or unemotional”.
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Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, defended Trump’s appearance to CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day” on Friday, saying that Trump wasn’t criticizing the USA to say the Iraq War was a failure. I understand their reservations, yet I think that in their readiness to “hold their nose” and vote for Trump, these Republicans may not be grasping the full danger that Trump-ism poses to their party’s character and to American democracy. King also hit Trump hard on his secret plan for ISIS, reminding the Republican nominee that one of his predecessors made the same promise in 1968 for ending the war in Vietnam, and it turned out that Richard Nixon didn’t have any plan. “Yeah, I guess so”, he replied.
