An average of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics gives Trump a 4 percentage point lead over Clinton in head-to-head matchups.
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In a statement, Trump’s campaign accused the White House of playing down the threat posed by Islamic State.
“I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election”, Obama said Saturday in his address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington.
Critics are trying to drive those negatives home, pointing to Trump’s swift pronouncement that the explosion in New York City was a bomb – before the facts were in. Nobody was hurt when a pipe bomb went off in a garbage receptacle in Seaside Park, N.J., earlier in the day.
This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Ahmad Khan Rahami, suspected in the bombings that rocked a New York City neighborhood and a New Jersey shore town, who was taken into custody Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, after a shootout with police in New Jersey.
The incidents, just days after the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, put the United States’ most populous city on edge. Authorities were also investigating the stabbings of nine people at a Minnesota mall as a possible act of terrorism.
He claimed credit on Friday for ending to the controversy that he stoked, falsely insisting that Clinton was responsible. Mr Trump and his allies spent Sunday – repeatedly and falsely – accusing Mrs Clinton of pushing the idea that Mr Obama was not born in the U.S. – a conspiracy theory long championed by Mr Trump himself. She cited Hayden as saying that her opponent was a recruiting sergeant for terrorists.
“Trump said”, The United States defeated fascism, Nazism and communism.
Like the country, Fahrenkopf says he doesn’t fully know what to expect at the debate.
The attacks were also the focus on the campaign trail today, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump pushed to convince voters that they can keep Americans safe. We know that a lot of the rhetoric we’ve heard Donald Trump has been seized on by terrorists, in particular ISIS. “Hate speech being normalised, the dog whistles are out in the open”, Clinton said at an election rally in Pennsylvania on Monday.
Although Clinton ripped into Trump during her appearance, mostly she was on Fallon for the same reason Trump was: Both presidential candidates have what could be called a humanization problem, and Fallon’s late night show exists to humanize his guests. -Iraqi status of forces agreement, and most American troops were withdrawn.
Trump also said he believed there was a foreign connection to the attack.
“Hillary Clinton’s comments today accusing Mr. Trump of treason are not only beyond the pale, it’s also an attempt to distract from her frightful record on ISIS”.
Even so, Trump said of that second debate, “I’ll show up”, then reminded O’Reilly, “Look, they’re gaming the ref”.
“Although Clinton’s lead is smaller than in our last poll, she is maintaining her advantage in Florida given the ominous state of her poll standing last week”, pollster Patrick Murray said.
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The Republican presidential nominee told “Fox and Friends” that “I should be a newscaster because I called it before the news”.
