Trump Didn't 'Follow Through On Enough' on Debate Cybersecurity Topic, Thune Says
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., would have preferred some additional policy items discussed during the first presidential debate Monday between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, he told reporters Tuesday. “A lot of…
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issues didn’t get covered last night that are pretty big issues,” Thune said. “Issues that have been talked about in the campaign -- immigration, of course, was one. I think there were some opportunities for Trump on the cyber issue that he didn’t probably follow through on enough. If they’re talking about the economy and national security and the courts and things like that, I think those are things the American people care a lot about. And I don’t think there was probably as fulsome a discussion as there could have been.” Trump agrees with Clinton that “we should be better than anybody else” on cybersecurity, he said Monday. “The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it’s hardly do-able. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing, but that’s true throughout our whole governmental society.” Clinton, who has a detailed tech and telecom agenda, also touted her infrastructure plans, which she wants to kick-start at the beginning of her administration, and cited jobs in technology. Thune initially predicted Trump would come up with his own tech agenda by the time of the debates (see 1606290073).