The Democratic nominee on Wednesday morning rolled out a “big, attractive list” of her GOP rival’s scathing tweets about Mexico ahead of Trump’s meeting with the nation’s leader, Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Hillary Clinton’s bid to win over Republican elites reached a new level at an American Legion conference in Cincinnati.
Clinton did not directly mention Trump’s last-minute visit to Mexico, but her comments nodded to the Republican nominee’s trip he made Wednesday.
“I hope you will join the growing number of Americans Democrats, Republicans and independents who are supporting our vision for the kind of future we want for our country”, Clinton said.
Trump was meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto later Wednesday.
Clinton dismissed the trip as a “photo-op” meant to fix the damage Trump has done running for president as a hard-line immigration hawk for the past year.
“You don’t build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon”. “Actually, it’s just like building personal relationships”. That was my job every day as your secretary of State.
Clinton representatives said that while Trump talked tough about making Mexico pay, he eventually chickened out when he got south of the border.
“When we say America is exceptional.it means that we recognize America’s unique and unparalleled ability to be a force for peace and progress”, Clinton told the veterans. “This election shouldn’t be about ideology. For Americans who are concerned about national security and the treatment of our veterans, Donald Trump is our only choice for President”.
Responding to Clinton’s remarks, Matt Miller, director of Veterans for Trump, said in a statement that Clinton “is fundamentally unequipped to further the national security interests of the United States and stand up for our veterans”.
But to Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, Clinton’s work as secretary of state doesn’t back her pledge. “She represents a continuation of failed and unsafe foreign policy and failure to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs here at home”.
He has since unequivocally embraced American exceptionalism but Republicans have used the 2009 comment to hammer what they see as a foreign policy approach that is overly deferential to US allies and multinational institutions.
Central to the GOP nominee’s pitch is that Washington lawmakers have reduced the nation to rubble and that only an outsider with executive experience like himself will up-end the status quo and return the country to greatness.
Again, there’s a certain American presidential candidate who has been saying this sort of thing, and it hasn’t been Hillary Clinton.
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Though Clinton was more subtle in her attacks on Trump in front of the audience of veterans, she did blast the businessman-turned-politician for what she said were his insults toward the military, attacking the family of a soldier killed in action and being too cozy with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
