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.
