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Political Fix

US election countdown: Terror and race come to the fore

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Bombings in New York and New Jersey, and riots in North Carolina have thrust issues of national security, the use of force by police and race into the spotlight. FT reporters discuss how responses from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will impact the campaigns, and more. Additional clips courtesy of Reuters.

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Washington is Sam Fleming, the F.T.'s U.S. economics editor.

0:48.0

Hi, Sam, welcome.

0:49.4

Hi, Courtney. Good to be here.

0:51.3

It's been a big week. National security and terrorism returned to the

0:55.3

forefront of the campaign following a bombing in New York. These attacks and many others

1:01.6

were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system.

1:08.0

We know that a lot of the rhetoric we've heard from Donald Trump has been seized on by terrorists in particular

1:16.1

ISIS. They want to use that to recruit more fighters to their cause.

1:22.8

Meanwhile, we've had riots in Charlotte, North Carolina

1:24.9

that turned violent after an African-American was shot

1:27.4

by a police officer there.

1:28.9

So Sam, how do you think the attacks in New York and New Jersey

1:31.8

are going to shake up the next 50 days of the race.

1:34.0

Do you think that this is going to have a big effect or do you think we're in kind of a holding pattern?

1:39.0

Well, I think it will have an effect simply because these are two really hot button important issues in this

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