“It wasn’t just an incredibly well written speech, it was arguably Clinton’s most compelling public moment of the entire campaign so far”, said Simon Rosenberg, founder and president of NDN, a Democratic think tank.
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“It’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because someone got under his very thin skin”, said Clinton, also calling him “quick to anger” and lash out. He has drawn thousands of supporters to a nonstop stream of rallies and events throughout the state in recent weeks, including in Davis on Wednesday. Voter interest tends to be limited.
Presidential contenders often tout their foreign policy credentials.
“I will leave it to the psychiatrists”, she said later, to explain Trump’s “bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America”, not least Vladimir Putin, for whom Trump shows not the slightest understanding and who, because of that, she reminded Trump-“will eat your lunch”.
Noting Trump’s comment that he doesn’t have to listen to military officials, “because he has – quote – ‘a very good brain, ‘” she paused for comic effect.
But in the process Mr Trump has rejected numerous central tenets of foreign policy endorsed by both major parties.
Her speech, Trump said, would be full of “such lies”.
“I wonder why Secretary Clinton and her husband Bill are back in California”, he joked to reporters this week.
Clinton’s tone toggled between stately seriousness and a humorous mocking of Trump.
“I am skeptical of global unions that tie us up and bring America down”.
“One of his most glaring weaknesses is foreign policy and national security, and they are looking for every chance they can to exploit his utterly ridiculous views and significant lack of experience”, Manley said. Weaver said that process has already begun. “Bernie Sanders would be president of the United States”, he said. Clinton said she would intensify the air campaign, step up cooperation with armed groups in those two countries and press for a diplomatic solution. After all, the Obama administration did the same with Iran, another regime many people didn’t want to give the time of day.
Her wide-ranging critique also included Trump’s insistence that climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese, his statements that Sen. “He’s keeping it a secret”. But they are not supposed to be involved in ground combat. I will say this: “Hillary Clinton has to go to jail”, Trump said.
“On foreign policy, Hillary is trigger-happy”, Trump said last month.
Although it has faded as a central campaign issue eight years later, both Trump and Sanders have sought to use her vote as evidence of poor decision-making. “If you look at the war in Iraq, if you look at what she did with Libya, which was a total catastrophe”.
One of the arguments that the Sanders campaign is making to those superdelegates is a side-by-side comparison of how Sanders fares compared to Clinton in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup against Trump. “A lot of Americans have concerns about our trade agreements with China”.
She anxious that Trump has shown a penchant for destabilizing existing alliances, talking about pulling the USA out of NATO and openly encouraging a war between Japan and North Korea.
“My temperament is so much tougher, and so much better, than her temperament”. “Trump, on the other hand, risks knee-jerk scaring people, but he’s against so numerous interventions that numerous American people themselves are against … it’s a real fair fight”.
Perhaps just as importantly, she matched Trump on belittling insults, just to let him know she can.
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Likewise, according to Pew, Trump supporters are more likely than other Republicans to say the USA does too much in solving the world’s problems.
