Race Intensifies Between Trump And Clinton In Battleground States

And for the first time, he opened the door to granting legal status to people living in the USA illegally who join the military.

Despite several controversial statements regarding war veteran Sen. But she defended her support for US military intervention to help oust a dictator in Libya, despite the chaotic aftermath.

“It is unfortunate that both parties are now engaged in a sort of arms race to gather partisan endorsements from former military officials”, Charles Dunlap, a retired Air Force major general and lawyer who now runs the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University told Time magazine.

Clinton attacked Trump for praising Putin on Wednesday evening at the “Commander in Chief Forum” as a stronger leader than President Barack Obama, and her campaign has for weeks pointed out the alleged ties between Trump’s associates and Russian interests. On Twitter, Clinton also reminded the world of Trump’s comment that he “knows more about ISIS than the generals”.

TRUMP: Sure I do.

Clinton leads with 57 percent of voters under 45 while 31 percent of them go for Trump.

Meanwhile, Trump takes 59 percent of white voters, to 36 percent for Clinton.

A large majority of those voters, 64 percent, say they wouldn’t be confident in Clinton’s ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

Yet a broad majority, 78 percent, say they would favor a bill to allow those immigrants working in the United States illegally, who meet certain criteria, to stay and eventually apply for citizenship. Lake told the Guardian that, in focus groups, she’s hearing from married women that their husbands have been pressuring them to vote Trump; she says that’s a typical dynamic as Election Day approaches, but it’s been happening earlier in this cycle than previous ones. Among military and veteran voters, he does even better (53 per cent to 28 per cent).

Overall, more voters would trust Clinton to make the right decisions about the use of nuclear weapons (44 percent), but a quarter would not trust either her or Trump to handle these issues. But Clinton continues to face questions about her honesty, and new revelations about her email practices as secretary of state have cast a shadow over her campaign. He said he would make the government “leaner”, in part by using attrition to shrink the workforce, and said he’d bring in new money by asking countries like Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia to pay more for the security the US provides them. Clinton released the names of her top money-raising “bundlers”; Trump refuses.

Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, defended Trump’s appearance to CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day” on Friday, saying that Trump wasn’t criticizing the U.S. to say the Iraq War was a failure. They are more apt than others to favor building a wall along the entire border with Mexico (54 percent compared with 41 percent overall) and deporting all immigrants living in the U.S. illegally (43 percent vs. 30 percent overall). Respondents for this non-probability survey were selected from the almost three million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day.