American voters believe Republican businessman Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are the presidential candidates best suited to handle the threat of terrorism, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday.
Trump and Clinton each received 20 percent of respondents’ support. While they garnered the most support on the issue of terrorism out of all the candidates running in 2016, the top spot didn’t go to any individual candidate. Instead, 28.7 percent of respondents said “none” of the candidates were best equipped to deal with terrorism.
Trump and Clinton have radically different views on national security and how to defend America from attacks like those that rippled Friday across Paris, leaving 129 people dead. The real estate mogul has proposed an aggressive U.S. bombing campaign to combat the Islamic State in war-torn countries like Syria, while the Democratic frontrunner has argued that the effort to combat terrorist groups like ISIL “cannot be an American fight.”
The Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,106 respondents was conducted between Nov. 16-17. It had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.
Trump has outdone Hillary so far, when it comes to dealing with ISIS! While Hillary was foolishly demanding we take in 65,000 Syrian refugees Trump erred on the side of caution, warning that there might be jihadists among the refugees, lo and behold the attacks in Paris bore that out. Trump also said Russia should be allowed to join the fight while Hillary demanded a safe zone over Syria to keep Russia out, and Now Obama is praising Putin’s efforts in Syria.
Hey Roundsquare, I didn’t know Trump was “dealing” with ISIS? I doubt he could even give a short history on basically anything to do with this conflict other than “bomb 'em”. But I’m waiting to see if Trump starts making inroads with his responses, for Hillary to put on her 82nd Airborne jump boots and respond in kind, going full Giuliani with noun verb 9/11 at her campaign rallies.
Cannot be an America ONLY fight! Can you people really not get anything right?
Are you seriously this poorly informed? One the attacks in Paris were not carried out by refugees, but by European nationals. Two Hilary has not said we should take in 65,000 refugees, but agreed to the 10,000 we are taking in at some point. And do you even have a fucking clue as to how long and arduous the vetting process is for refugees? It can take over two years. Look you should stop commenting on things you clearly know nothing about it makes you look like an idiot.
no. the attacks in paris did not show that. they were home grown. the syrian passport may have well been a plant. the safe zone is for the syrian dissonants whom the russians have been bombing. i’m fine with the russkis bombing the piss out of isis. i’m not fine with carrying out attacks on assad dissonants. does the donald want russian planes murdering syrians? please remove your head from your butt.