Donald Trump’s campaign is set to release an open letter in which 88 retired military generals and officials endorse the Republican presidential nominee, saying the US needs a “long overdue course correction in our national security posture and policy”, according to a report by the New York Times.
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And while Sunday’s CBS News Battleground Tracker shows Clinton, 68, leading Trump in two key states – by eight points in Pennsylvania and four points in North Carolina – recent polls show the race tightening nationally. But Clinton aides are monitoring movement toward a pair of third party candidates, Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein.
The Democratic presidential nominee questioned Donald Trump’s readiness and foreign policy expertise for the White House as she campaigned in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday. The race to replace retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is a close one, and if Clinton widens her lead there it could have quite an impact down-ballot.
Younger voters are in Clinton’s corner (54 percent to 29 percent among those under age 45) while the older ones are more apt to back Trump (54 percent to 39 percent among those age 45 or older). “For this reason, we support Donald Trump’s candidacy to be our next Commander-in-Chief”, the group wrote in their letter.
Trump’s rebound from a series of self-inflicted wounds follows the hiring of a new campaign management team, and the Republican nominee is showing more discipline on the stump.
Protesting the decision by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department against prosecuting Clinton over the use of a private email system while at the State Department, Trump said that “we’re like a third-world country” and Clinton “is a disaster in so many different ways”.
“I’m asking to be judged on the totality of my record”, said Clinton, who grew visibly irritated at times with the repeated focus on her past actions.
The Clinton camp announced Tuesday that First Lady Michelle Obama will make her fall campaign debut on September 16, the first event she’s held for the Democratic nominee since her well-received address on first night of the Democratic convention.
“We want to defer, avoid and prevent conflict through our unquestioned military strength”, Trump declared of his Democratic opponent in his Wednesday speech, delivered inside the exclusive Union League of Philadelphia, which first allowed women in 1986. A Washington Post/Survey Monkey poll said Tuesday that its massive poll of 74,000 registered voters over the last three weeks of August shows Clinton with an advantage in the electoral college because she is winning states with bigger populations. Clinton’s lead has largely evaporated despite a challenging month for Trump, which saw an overhaul of his campaign staff, announcements of support for Clinton from several high-profile Republicans and criticism of his campaign strategy.
This appears to be created to make Trump a less controversial candidate among the existing Republican leadership, many of whom have bristled at his “isolationist” platform, which doubted the merits of some recent United States wars, as well as acrimony toward Russian Federation along the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation frontier in Eastern Europe.
“I’m all about the jobs now”, he said, saying his position on the immigration issue was now well known.
The Democratic nominee maintains an edge over Republican flagbearer Trump in national polls, has dramatically deeper ground operations in swing states, and trounced Trump in August fundraising.
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The airplanes of Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, were parked on the tarmac as Clinton and her vice presidential pick, Tim Kaine, arrived in separate planes. Trump’s view is backed up by his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who, in an earlier stage of the election, when she was supporting Sen. On that, 49 percent favor Clinton’s approach, 47 percent Trump’s. The audit isn’t what’s stopping him at all. “In the meantime, she has 33,000 emails that she deleted”.
