Clinton: He’s a national security danger. Trump: No, she is
Mrs Clinton is promoting a pathway to citizenship for numerous 11 million people living in the shadows, while Mr Trump wants to curtail immigration and require that those who wish to gain legalised status must leave the country first.
The newspaper’s formal endorsement of the former secretary of state comes a day after it published an editorial saying it would not back Trump in 2016, ending a streak of endorsing every Republican presidential nominee since 1968.
Any immigrants who want full citizenship must return to their countries of origin and get in line, he told reporters – but he would not rule out a pathway to legal status for the millions living in the USA illegally, as he did in a long-awaited policy speech last week.
Exercises that aggregate multiple opinion polls also show the race tightening.
“The point is your numbers may not be wrong but your weighting may be”.
Earlier, she told ABC News that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, should not have to step down before the election from his position at the Clinton Foundation.
“I do believe that Donald Trump is growing in his understanding of these issues and I think that he’s beginning to get more and more people around him that have a depth of understanding as to the complexities and I’m watching this evolve”, he said.
Clinton also hammered Trump on his tax plan for America, telling a voter registration rally in Tampa that Trump was peddling “trillions in tax cuts” that would “explode the national debt” and help the one percent wealthiest elite while hurting everyone else.
Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine was in North Carolina.
After a scaled-back August, the candidates revved up their campaigns on Labor Day by barnstorming the industrial heartland.
Clinton cited American intelligence as proof that Russians were behind the DNC email hack.
Trump, who has tried to establish himself as the law-and-order candidate who will keep American safe, has announced that he would focus in coming days on national security.
In Florida, Mrs Clinton branded Mr Trump a “demagogue” and declared his campaign to be “one long insult”.
“I said I’m allergic to him, that’s what I said”, Clinton responded. “She doesn’t remember anything”. Ten States are too close to call, but Ms. Clinton has a clear edge in terms of Electoral College votes – the key determining factor of the outcome.
Trump and Clinton are already preparing for the next major event in the race-the first presidential debate, set for September 26th.
Clinton on Monday used a campaign plane for the first time this election cycle, a Boeing 737 with about 100 seats for passengers and crew.
“We are going to have to take those threats and attacks seriously”, Clinton told reporters traveling with her from OH to IL.
Trump flies in a private jet, while his press corps travels in a separate one.
While Trump has often complained that USA forces are not large enough or well-equipped, he’s also said that he’d save money by cutting waste and ensuring that contractors aren’t getting sweetheart deals due to their connections or lobbying efforts.