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“Right?” she said to laughter from attendees, which included entertainer Barbra Streisand. “Now, it’s a very different system and I don’t happen to like the system, but certainly in that system, he’s been a leader”.

Trump and his supporters quickly pounced on the remark, arguing that it revealed Clinton as disconnected from struggling Americans.

Mike Pence: “Hillary Clinton said last night at a big fundraiser in New York City that the American people, the millions of Americans that are supporting my running mate, were described in the most deplorable of terms”. Tonight’s comments were more than another example of Clinton lying to the country about her emails, jeopardizing our national security, or even calling citizens “super-predators” – this was Clinton, as a defender of Washington’s rigged system – telling the American public that she could care less about them.

The comment was reminiscent of Trump’s January description of the loyalty of his supporters.

Trump used the start of a speech about education at a charter school in Cleveland to push back at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s statement that his position on Iraq is pretty much like her own: She voted for the 2003 war as a USA senator from NY but has since disavowed the vote.

Trump regularly praises Putin and has continued to do so while faced with continued criticism for seeming to embrace the Russian leader, a former KGB intelligence officer whose administration has been accused of unfairly jailing and even killing political detractors and journalists. “They say I have the most loyal people. where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”

After recounting the intensity of the mission that night by the Navy SEALS, she added, “That, Donald Trump, is what American honor looks like and that is what we’re going to stand up and defend in the face of your outrageous, disgraceful attacks on the men and women of our armed forces”.

Clinton’s comment could nevertheless end up being a boon to Trump. The candidates will face off for the first time on September 26 at Hofstra University. Trump responded, “Yeah, I guess so”. She reiterated that she had made mistakes in relying on a personal email account and private server as secretary of state and in voting for the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a senator.

Trump stood by a previous comment that appeared to blame military sexual assaults on men and women serving together, but added he would not seek to remove women from the military. She said that this is why her campaign has been so highly organized in preparing for November. And for the first time, he opened the door to granting legal status to people living in the US illegally who join the military.

“I opposed going in – and I did oppose it”, Trump said, pointing his finger for emphasis.

He attempted to clarify his position on Iraq Thursday, saying the “Howard statement was long before and it was the first time anybody ever asked me about Iraq”.