Mrs. Clinton has been dogged by media coverage and Republican-led congressional inquiries focused on her handling of the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, terror attack and her use of personal email for official business at the State Department.
In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News October poll, Mrs. Clinton was rated poorly for being "honest and straightforward," with 50% of registered voters giving her low marks, including 40% who gave her the lowest possible rating.
Experts who study terrorism say the evidence is thin that Mr. Trump, who urged a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. and mosque surveillance after the Paris and California attacks, has been a specific focus in terrorism recruitment and propaganda to date.
"The claim that ISIS has featured Trump in its videos is untrue, to the best of my knowledge," said J.M. Berger, a terrorism researcher and fellow at the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "They do talk about him and his comments on social media, as a vindication of their views on how the West treats Muslims, but so far, not in an organized or overwhelming way."
Civilian casualties from Western airstrikes are more often used to promote a sense of victimhood and the narrative that Islam is at war with the West, a study by the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam Foundation found. Many of those strikes are carried out by the U.S. military, an anti-Islamic State tactic endorsed by most presidential candidates.
"Collateral damage is the Islamic State propagandist's friend; dead babies and maimed children are instrumentalised, routinely integrated into a catalogue of crimes that have been perpetrated by the 'enemy,' " the report's author concluded about the damage inflicted by bombing and airstrikes.
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