Hillary Clinton is set to unleash a major foreign policy attack on Donald Trump, using a speech in San Diego to cast the Republican as unqualified and unsafe.
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And from the AP: “Clinton’s campaign hopes her foreign policy experience will appeal to voters who may be wary of Trump’s bombastic style and lack of global experience”.
“You will hear in her speech a confidence in America and our capacity to overcome the challenges we face while staying true to our values – a strong contrast to Donald Trump’s incessant trash-talking of America”, said Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s senior policy advisor, in a preview of Clinton’s remarks provided by her campaign.
Clinton’s effort to define Trump as unfit to be commander in chief comes as she faces fierce opposition from Sanders, a USA senator from Vermont who has insisted on staying in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination despite Clinton’s almost insurmountable lead.
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In March, 90 GOP foreign policy luminaries signed an open letter opposing Trump.
“Hillary Clinton remains focused on ensuring that she and Democrats up and down the ballot are able to mobilize millions of voters and win in November”, Mook added.
“I think she has to”, said Democratic strategist Jim Manley. “It’s important that we recognise what he has done, because that’s usually a pretty good indicator of what he will do”, Clinton said at an election rally in New Jersey.
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.
Sanders did not immediately report early fundraising details for May.
“The man believed to have set up and maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server will assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refuse to answer questions as part of an open records lawsuit against the State Department”, writes The Hill. Sanders, who has support from 44 superdelegates, needs 838 more delegates to claim the nomination. “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.
Donald Trump, lashing back at Barack Obama after the president waded forcefully into the presidential campaign, on Wednesday said Obama “doesn’t have a clue” and threatened to turn his attacks on him in retaliation.
“There are many Republicans concerned about this”, R. Nicholas Burns, a US ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation during the George W. Bush administration who also served on Bill Clinton’s National Security Council, said of Trump. Sanders and his aides have argued for weeks that a win in California will help the Vermont senator convince super delegates now backing Clinton to support him instead. He says he’ll have plenty of time to campaign for the eventual nominee.
“America turning inward not only will make the world more unsafe for others, but also for us”, former Defense Secretary Bob Gates told a Washington audience last month.
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Those calls have included to an aide of the 2012 Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, James A. Baker III, a White House chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan and secretary of state under President George Bush, and to Nicholas F. Brady, who served as secretary of the Treasury under Reagan and the elder Bush.
