{"id":29198,"date":"2016-10-06T03:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-backs-off-from-praising-putin-after-vp\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T03:32:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:32:47","slug":"trump-backs-off-from-praising-putin-after-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-backs-off-from-praising-putin-after-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs off from praising Putin after VP debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

{US presidential candidate backs down from his previous warm rhetoric towards Russian president.}<\/p>\n

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has backed off from praising Vladimir Putin, saying he was unsure of his relationship with the Russian president who he has described as a better leader than President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, just one day after his running mate Mike Pence appeared to break ranks during a vice presidential debate and called Putin “a small and bullying leader”, Trump adjusted his own previously warm rhetoric towards the Russian leader.<\/p>\n

“I don’t love [Putin], I don’t hate. We’ll see how it works. We’ll see,” Trump told supporters during a campaign stop in the swing state of Nevada. “Maybe we’ll have a good relationship. Maybe we’ll have a horrible relationship. Maybe we’ll have a relationship right in the middle.”<\/p>\n

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has appealed to anti-Russian sentiments in the US by criticising Trump, who often praises Putin, as being too cozy with the Kremlin leader and questioned the Republican’s business interests in Russia.<\/p>\n

Those charges were repeated by her vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine during a debate with Pence on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In response, Pence denounced Putin for his interference in Syria’s civil war and support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n

“The small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States,” Pence said. “The greatest nation on earth just withdraws from talks about a ceasefire, while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defence system in Syria.”<\/p>\n

The vice presidential encounter set the table for a second presidential debate on Sunday in St Louis between Clinton and Trump, who needs to rebound from a rocky performance in his first debate. Clinton received a large boost in most national opinion polls following that encounter, with the November 8 Election Day only five weeks away.<\/p>\n

In Nevada, Trump suggested Russia could be a valuable ally in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS).<\/p>\n

“I will say if we get along with Russia and Russia went out with us and knocked the hell out of ISIS, that’s okay with me, folks,” he said.<\/p>\n

Trump celebrated a strong debate performance by Pence, the governor of Indiana, and said his running mate had won on style and on the issues.<\/p>\n

“He’s getting tremendous reviews from me and everybody,” Trump told a group of pastors and leaders gathered at a Christian academy in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

A CNN\/ORC snap poll declared Pence the winner with 48 percent support, compared with 42 percent for Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, who frequently interrupted his opponent.<\/p>\n

The television audience for the debate was 35.6 million viewers, according to preliminary data, about half the number who watched the first encounter between Trump and Clinton.<\/p>\n

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