Last week, Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State in the Bush/Cheney administration and a longtime member of the Republican Party’s foreign policy establishment, conceded, “If Donald Trump is the nominee, I would vote for Hillary Clinton”.
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Although Trump’s appeal as an outsider had millions of new voters pulling Republican levers in the nation’s primaries, he should not see this phenomenon as evidence of sufficient strength in the general election.
Seeking to contrast her concrete plans with those of Trump, Clinton chided him for having no strategy to rebuild the country’s infrastructure besides building a wall along the Mexican border.
Mr Trump’s scorching criticism of Mrs Clinton comes a day after she questioned his record in business during a speech in OH, a pivotal state in the November 8th election, noting that economists of all ideological hues argue that his policies would “throw us back in recession”.
“No Secretary of State has been more wrong, more often, and in more places than Hillary Clinton”, he said.
Among others in the presidential race, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson received 4 percent; Green Party candidate Jill Stein got 2 percent; and 7 percent were undecided.
Clinton raised $28.28 million in May and has more than $42 million cash on hand.
With Trump’s nomination, the Clinton campaign has begun to open their campaign to disillusioned Republican supporters. Only 38.6 percent of women say they’d vote for Trump, whereas 50.9 percent on are team Hillary.
“It’s no surprise he doesn’t understand these things”, she said, adding, “Donald Trump uses poor people around the world to produce his line of suits and ties”. That Democrat – was Bill Clinton.
Clinton, who rallied in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday, said that Trump is pedaling “outlandish lies” and is trying to “distract us”.
The “neoconservative” – a.k.a. warmonger – sellout to presumed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton picked up steam this week when a prominent GOP security expert endorsed her candidacy.
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Clinton announced the support of over 40 prominent business leaders, a strategic move for a candidate trying to woo economically savvy liberals into her camp as well as conservatives wary of a Trump presidency.
