Republican presidential candidates roundly criticized President Barack Obama’s Sunday night address to the nation about the US response to the threat of terror, arguing that he lacked a vision and was
Republican presidential candidates roundly criticized President Barack Obama’s Sunday night address to the nation about the US response to the threat of terror, arguing that he lacked a vision and was not aggressive enough.
Republicans have beco-me increasingly critical of the President’s handling of ISIS arguing that his foreign policy has failed to address the risk from the militant group. They are also hopeful that by shifting the election discussion toward foreign policy and national security, voters will be more inclined to support their party. Histo-rically, elections that focu-sed on foreign policy and national security boded better for Republicans.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush said, “We ne-ed to remove the self-impo-sed constraints the Presid-ent has placed on our intelligence community and military, and we need to put in place an aggressive strategy to defeat ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism as I have proposed.”
After the speech, Republ-ican hopeful Donald Trump tweeted, “Is that all there is We need a new President — FAST!” Senat-or Marco Rubio of Florida criticised Mr Obama for saying that Americans should not fall into a trap of discriminating against Muslims. Republicans also condemned Mr Obama’s call for stricter gun laws after last week’s shooting rampage.
