Check this out: As at Wednesday, the NBC News poll had Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump 48-42 and Reuters poll 40-38.
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The U.S. presidential candidates appeared back-to-back on the same stage for the first time during NBC’s “commander-in-chief” forum, answering questions about national security in front of a live TV audience aboard the decommissioned USS Intrepid, which is now a floating museum in NY. The event was the first time both candidates appeared on the same stage.
Moderator Matt Lauer doggedly pressed her about her handling of emails from a private server while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
Clinton said U.S. policies under her leadership at the State Department had helped promote security. I mean, Clinton’s email scandal is seriously threatening to take her down in defeat. Clinton, on a new plane with room for reporters, could have exhaustively and non-testily explained the email controversy without expecting full exoneration, which will never come. “I’m not going to sit up here and do the tit-for-tat on what Donald said last night or the night before and Hillary vs. Donald”. It’s shaping up to be a dirty fight to the finish between 2 very different candidates-each calling the other bigoted, unfit and shady.
“The generals under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have not been successful”.
“For the first time in my life, The Dallas Morning News has found one Democrat worthy of endorsing”, he said.
During the 2012 race, GOP nominee Mitt Romney – a virulent Trump critic – warned about Russia’s growing influence and called the country the U.S.’s biggest geopolitical threat, something then mocked by Obama and Democrats as hearkening back to the Cold War and the 1950s.
Still, Clinton indicated later in the day that she does not want the final weeks to be exclusively focused on Trump, unveiling plans for a series of policy speeches aimed at promoting a positive message. “Yeah, I guess so”, Trump said.
“Every Republican holding or seeking office in this country should be asked if they agree with Donald Trump about these statements”, Clinton said in a news conference the morning after both candidates appeared at a national security forum.
Trump’s praise of Putin and his suggestion that the United States and Russian Federation form an alliance to defeat Islamic State militants could raise eyebrows among foreign policy experts who feel Moscow is interfering with efforts to stem the Syrian civil war.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a Russia-funded television network Thursday that “it’s probably unlikely” that Russian Federation is trying to influence the US election.
The Republican candidate was unapologetic when questioned about this by Lauer, saying he was happy to take a compliment from Putin.
Trump said there were things in his briefing that “shocked” and “surprised” him.
Trump added that he believes Putin makes a better leader than U.S. President Barack Obama.
Trump leveled unusually harsh criticism against the military in a move likely to enrage the brass in the Defense Department. The Republican also said that, if elected, he would give military leaders 30 days to formulate a multi-pronged plan to defeat ISIS.
If Trump was going to hold up a leader of another country who is stronger than Obama, why not an ally? “If I win, I don’t want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is”.
Clinton’s argument that Trump is ill-prepared to be commander in chief has been bolstered by a flood of Republican national security experts who have chosen to back the Democratic nominee instead of their own party’s pick.
The Democratic presidential nominee stressed the importance – and bipartisan support behind – the seriousness of leadership on foreign policy and national security issues during this campaign.
In July, he said of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, “He was a bad guy, really bad guy, but you know what he did well?”
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“They view him as a danger and a risk”.
