Story highlights
- Trump hinted at a gut-driven, personality-heavy style of leadership and unpredictable strategic positions
- A defensive Clinton assumed the traditional posture of a tough yet temperamentally steady president
Washington One thing is now clear: Voters face the starkest choice in generations about America's place in the world and how it leads.
Dueling appearances by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at a national security forum on Wednesday night previewed the dilemma that will be laid before the nation in three upcoming presidential debates.
The Republican nominee, freed from the teleprompter on which he has relied in recent weeks, hinted at a gut-driven, personality-heavy style of leadership and unpredictable strategic positions. They are approaches that widely diverge from generations of presidential behavior on the world stage.
A defensive Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, assumed the traditional posture of a tough yet temperamentally steady would-be occupant of the Oval Office.
While foreign policy rarely decides US elections, the differences between the candidates on display at NBC's commander in chief presidential forum suggest the result in November has the potential to set the US and the world on an uncharted course come January. So the stakes are monumental as the candidates prepare to go head-to-head at the potentially pivotal first presidential debate on September 26 at Hofstra University, New York, expected to draw millions of viewers around the country and the world.
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