A new poll from the Los Angeles Times/USC Dornsife suggests that the pivotal state of California might be a tighter contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders than previously thought.
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Steve Westly, the state’s former controller and a prominent Democratic fundraiser supporting Clinton, said it’s hard to overstate Clinton’s long history with the state. “Now everything is going to be fair, but I’m sure the attorney general will take a very good look at it from a fair standpoint, okay”, host Kate Bolduan asked, “Is that a real threat, Barry?”
The Vermont senator says in a statement that he agrees with Clinton that Trump’s foreign policy ideas are “incredibly reckless and irresponsible”. But often, Trump takes the meetings himself.
“I watched Hillary today, it was pathetic, ” Trump said from his own rally stage.
He adds: “Reading poorly from the teleprompter!”
Donald Trump has been in the public eye for decades.
Even though Trump is the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, many establishment Republicans in Congress as well as some GOP campaign donors continue to resist endorsing Trump. “I completely disagree with the thinking behind that”, Ryan said in a radio interview.
Trump would rather have a national conversation about whether he is a bigot than one about whether he is too erratic to be trusted with the nuclear codes. “Imagine if he had not just his Twitter account at his disposal, but America’s entire arsenal”, Clinton said.
However, “if Clinton means to engage on foreign policy, this is not a battle Trump should avoid”, Buchanan emphasized.
Those liabilities include the aftermath of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation intervention in Libya, in which she played a dominant role and which left behind a risky failed state and a terror haven, as well as the Obama administration’s “reset” of relations with Russian Federation, which critics say was naïve and ineffective. Not true. Clinton’s problem is that she is on the wrong side of the most important single issue in the minds of white middle class voters, and Sanders is simply giving her a taste of what she’ll face from Trump.
Trump mocked the Clinton campaign’s attack, but now Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton super PAC is doubling down on the “housing boom and bust” line of attack against Trump. When Clinton brought up the military raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed, she complimented President Barack Obama’s decision-making process, saying “it was a decision only a president could make”.
They frame his worldview in this way because they know there is a significant market in the electorate for a foreign policy of modest retrenchment.
In one of the most striking speeches of her political career, Clinton dispensed with the sober diplo-speak that has characterized her previous national security addresses and went straight for the jugular, unleashing a series of biting attacks on Trump.
Nationally Clinton’s lead over Trump has shrunk to just 1.
For a second straight day Clinton leveled withering criticism at Trump over his character, stream of insults and lack of coherent foreign policies. She said of Trump’s vague proposals: “This isn’t reality television – this is actual reality”. “Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. And it would fuel an ugly narrative about who we are - that we’re fearful, not confident; that we want to let others determine our future for us, instead of shaping our own destiny”.
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All of this, Chu said, helps send “a clear message that those of us who have been elected by them that (Clinton) is the right choice for this race”.
