Clinton had planned to campaign this week in New Jersey ahead of that state’s Tuesday primary, but the campaign decided instead to fly to San Diego for a speech on foreign policy that will also go directly after Trump, as well as tout her own experience as secretary of state. “It’s just not factually correct”, he said, predicting that he would win California and some other states next Tuesday and head into the convention with enough momentum to flip allegiances of “superdelegates” who previously have announced support for Clinton.
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Clinton on June 1 hit Trump hard on the revelations.
The speech shows the predicament Clinton is now in: She is committing five days to battle Sanders in California, a solidly Democratic general election state, while also trying to focus on the presumptive GOP nominee. Clinton would beat Trump 55%-31% and Sanders would beat him 62%-28%, according to the poll.
A large portion of those remarks lately has been dedicated to Trump’s foreign policy comments, most often criticizing his proposal to temporarily “ban” Muslims from entering the United States and his suggestion that the United States should pull out of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
“Donald Trump is unlike any presidential candidate we’ve seen, maybe ever, certainly in decades, in that he does not cross the threshold of fitness for the job”, said Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s top policy adviser, who helped draft the speech. And since delegates are awarded proportionally – this isn’t winner-take-all as some of the big GOP contests were – a Sanders win in California wouldn’t make a much of a dent in her lead.
Roughly 21 percent of independent voters and 32 percent of Republican voters said the most important issue this election was terrorism and national security, compared with 16 percent of Democrats, according to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll conducted last month. “The New York Attorney General is suing Donald Trump for fraud”, she alleged.
Trump says US foreign policy has failed.
It seems Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is no stranger to this joy.
Trump hammered Clinton over foreign policy decisions he himself supported, including the decisions to invade Iraq in 2003 and to launch military strikes in Libya in 2011.
“The judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great, I think that’s fine”, Trump said of Curiel, who was born in the U.S. “She has no natural talents to be president”.
Trump said the policies Clinton supported have “made the Middle East more risky than ever before”.
“It’s not like the campaign against McCain or Romney, which was two competing visions”, said Derek Chollet, a former White House and Pentagon official under Obama.
Although Clinton is still battling Vermont Sen.
The former secretary of state begins a five-day swing through California on Thursday that she hopes will result in a victory that convinces Sanders and his supporters that it’s time to unite against Donald Trump.
“Our country can’t afford to police the world anymore, and at least not get reimbursed for it”, he said.
Clinton has delivered a series of foreign policy speeches over the course of the nominating fight that included calling for accelerating the USA -led operation to defeat the Islamic State, ending the economic embargo against Cuba, and pledging unwavering support of Israel.
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The speech in San Diego will be Clinton’s fourth major address this cycle on this subject, but it will be her first time speaking about national security since Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee. “This is a speech about a vision and principle and goal, not individual policy proposals”.
