The Note: Trump, Clinton Clash After Orlando

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June 13, 2016

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Trump, Clinton Clash after Orlando

Candidates Tweak Messages, Schedules After Orlando Shooting

It was supposed to be a turning point in the 2016 presidential race: The first full week of competition between the two presumptive party nominees. But after the mass shooting in Florida this weekend, which claimed the lives of 50 people, there are already signs that the tone and tenor of the campaign this week will be different. Hillary Clinton, who was scheduled to hold her first joint campaign event with Obama in Wisconsin this Wednesday after the president's endorsement last week, announced the appearance would be postponed "because of the tragic attack in Orlando." She is set to hold an event in Cleveland, Ohio today two hours before Trump will deliver remarks in Manchester, New Hampshire. http://abcn.ws/1Ud0pel

Trump Talks

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doubled down on his pledge to prevent Muslims from entering the U.S. "We have to have a ban of people coming in from Syria and different parts of the world with this philosophy that is so hateful and so horrible," Trump said on "Good Morning America." The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, is a U.S. citizen, and Trump said that people are entering the U.S. "whose hate is equal" to Mateen's. Trump went on to argue that what the U.S. needs is "intelligence gathering like we have never had before." More from ABC's VERONICA STRACQUALURSI and CANDACE SMITH: http://abcn.ws/25SSvPL

Clinton Calls for 'Dedicated Team' to Track Lone Wolf Terrorists

Clinton told "Good Morning America" that she plans to establish "a dedicated team" that is "exclusively" tasked with tracking and preventing lone wolf terrorists, such as the shooter who attacked patrons of a nightclub in downtown Orlando Sunday morning. "We've got to really double down on our efforts here in this country and that means also getting the Congress to do something on the common sense gun measures because that's not a separate issue," she said. ABC's MEGHAN KENEALLY has more: http://abcn.ws/1UvokTB

What Trump Will Say Today

Senior aides to Trump, who had promised to deliver a speech today taking on Clinton, said plans had changed, according to ABC's JOHN SANTUCCI. The speech, which he will give at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, will "further address this terrorist attack, immigration, and national security," according to a written statement released by his campaign. http://abcn.ws/1Ud0pel

Analysis -- ABC's Rick Klein

A campaign not known for its serious moments gets another one, with Orlando joining Paris and San Bernardino on the grimmest of lists. It comes when the candidates are ready to get serious, as primary voting winds down and positioning for the general-election heats up. Yet any ramifications are as unpredictable as the responses are predictable. Donald Trump will join Republicans (four words he relishes) in citing the need to address growing threats from violent Islamists. Hillary Clinton will join her party stalwarts (and President Obama, most significantly) in advocating for the need to prevent gun violence. They both have significant points. But it's the interaction of these two sets of challenges that wades the campaign into uncharted waters. An already angry electorate can easily become a deeply fearful one, and there's no ready playbook for that kind of campaign.