Clinton has led Trump in nearly every poll out of New Hampshire, and a Republican has not carried the state since George W. Bush won there in 2000.
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The possibility of a home-grown terrorist plot cast a new shadow over the presidential race, diverting both candidates’ attention from the daily controversies of the campaign and giving them a high-profile opportunity to make their case to undecided voters.
She added: “I know how to do this”.
Trump told a rally crowd Tuesday: “I’m being tough”.
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said that the Clinton campaign accused the Republican nominee of treason and criticised her previous stances on the war in Iraq. “We want to make sure we’re only admitting people into our country who love our country”. She insinuated that Islamic militants, particularly those affiliated with ISIS, are rooting for Trump to win the White House and are using some of his controversial proposals to recruit fighters.
Citi’s Fordham and her colleagues, Graham Bishop, Jeremy Hale, Tiia Lehto and Dana Peterson, said in their “U.S. election countdown” note that Trump voters were “significantly more likely to say they intend to vote”.
Trump has called for a new “extreme vetting” system that would apply an ideological screening test to potential immigrants, asking whether they support concepts like women’s and gay rights. The former president said, “Our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens”.
Mr. Trump said the country’s open immigration policies made possible the weekend bombings, and he vowed to restore common sense to American immigration policy.
In her news conference on Monday, Clinton also warned against the instinct to villainise entire groups of people based on religion.
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No doubt the latest national polls indicate that smart voters are finally catching on to the political hypocrisy and media bias on full display.
