Trump Challenges Clinton To Release Health History: I’ll Go First
“See who wins in the end, who will win”, Trump told ABC.
On Tuesday night, Trump promised to convene his military commanders soon after taking office with “a simple instruction” aimed at the Islamic State group. John McCain, a former prisoner of war.
The conflicting messages come as the candidates prepare to court voters in Southern states with significant veteran populations.
Clinton’s campaign has long argued that Trump is overestimating the number of voters willing to switch from voting Democratic in presidential election to Republican.
The appearances mark an intense, two-day focus on national security by Trump, who has offered tough rhetoric on the nation’s challenges overseas but few details.
Clinton has dealt with coughing fits before, but Monday’s among the most disruptive.
Trump will be in Virginia today, while Clinton heads to Florida.
Clinton leads by a small margin, with 35.1 percent to Trump’s 33.5 percent and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percent, the poll said.
CNN’s latest poll showing Trump with a two-point national lead reinforces the meaningless nature of national polls. But of the millions more living in the country illegally, he would not rule out a pathway to legal status. However, in Trump’s recent visit to Mexico, he did not discuss with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto about who would be paying for the wall. While Trump squandered a summer’s worth of opportunities to court those voters, his campaign heads into the fall suddenly confident in its ability to make up lost ground.
He added that had Clinton gone to Mexico, the trip would have been “a total failure”. “Our leaders did not follow what they were recommending”.
The State Department is expected to release some of the 15,000 emails from Clinton’s time there that have yet to be made publicly available. “This is like Watergate, only in cyber time”, she said.
Also on Wednesday, Clinton’s campaign announced that 95 retired generals and admirals have endorsed her presidential bid, one day after a group of 88 retired generals and admirals signed an open letter backing Trump to reverse the “hollowing out” of the US military.
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 at the city’s airport. “We need a lot more transparency”.
Mrs Clinton powered through a coughing fit at a Labour Day festival in a Cleveland park, sharply criticising Mr Trump’s recent trip to Mexico as “an embarrassing worldwide incident”.
“When you talk about her ‘not looking presidential, ‘ are you talking about aesthetics here?”
Clinton’s 25-minute question-and-answer session was her first extensive availability with reporters since early December.
She said Russian president Vladimir Putin appears “quite satisfied with himself” and Mr Trump “has generally parroted what is a Putin-Kremlin line”.
“I’d rather it be Hillary and myself because we’re the only two with a chance of winning”, he said when asked if Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson should also take the debate stage.