After Bombings, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Clash Over Terrorism - The New York Times - 1 views
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Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump were already racing to seize the political upper hand
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blaming Mrs. Clinton and President Obama’s handling of immigration and the Iraq war for bringing terrorism to American shores
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called for vigorous police profiling of people from the Muslim world and drew a direct equation between immigration controls and national defense.
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“They are looking to make this into a war against Islam, rather than a war against jihadists, violent terrorists,”
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she has enjoyed an edge over her Republican opponent on issues of national security and foreign policy.
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calling him a “recruiting sergeant” for terrorists, she accused him of giving “aid and comfort” to the Islamic State with his campaign oratory.
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“We’re going after the bad guys, and we’re going to get them, but we’re not going after an entire religion,”
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the candidates’ responses to an apparent terrorist plot on American soil could sharply alter voters’ views
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criticizing Mrs. Clinton for favoring more lenient immigration policies and calling her attack on Mr. Trump tantamount to an accusation of treason.
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“Her weakness, her ineffectiveness, caused the problem, and now she wants to be president,” he said. “I don’t think so.”
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directly equated American vulnerability to terrorism with what he called laxness in the immigration system
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“These attacks, and many others, were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system,