WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EDT):
8:08 a.m.
Hillary Clinton says she isn’t shying away from using the term “radical Islamism” to describe the attack in Orlando and that she has a plan to address the threat. But, she adds, singling out a specific religion and trying to demonize its followers won’t protect the United States from the next attack.
Her likely Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has criticized President Barack Obama for not using the term and suggested political correctness hurts Democrats’ ability to go after terrorists.
Clinton, in a phone interview Monday, told NBC “Today” that she has a plan to defend the nation from “lone wolf” attacks. But “I’m not going to demonize and demagogue” like Trump because “it’s plain dangerous.”