“I think that more people who are engaged in the political process will mean there will be a higher voter turnout”, he said, when asked about growing concerns from party leadership that it was time to focus on unifying against Donald Trump. Clinton called Trump “temperamentally unfit”, someone with a “very thin skin”, a “loose cannon”, and labeled his policies as “incoherent rants, personal attacks and outright lies”.
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Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally on Thursday in San Diego.
“She made up my foreign policy”, Trump said Thursday night in San Jose, California.
“It was a pretty pathetic deal”, he added. O’Rourke made last month when he explained why he would be voting for Clinton despite “her lies and all her empty promises”.
Clinton argued that Trump has no actual plan for dealing with the wide range of issues overseas that America’s commander-in-chief takes on.
Clinton’s tone toggled between stately seriousness and a humorous mocking of Trump.
Bernie Sanders is trying to wedge his way into the debate over foreign policy between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. “America’s network of allies is part of what makes us exceptional”. After what she said about me today in her phony speech – that was a phony speech. And the combative Republican standard-bearer did not disappoint.
Hillary Clinton’s speech in San Diego on Thursday lived up to its billing as a spirited frontal assault on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Reading poorly from the telepromter! “People will not allow another four years of incompetence!” one tweet read. They hadn’t heard any presidential candidate talk like this-they certainly hadn’t heard Clinton talk like this. She recited some of Trump’s past statements on foreign policy, provoking laughter from the audience when she noted that he said he understands Russian Federation because he held the Miss Universe pageant there. “I don’t believe him”. But it doesn’t work like that in world affairs.
“Anything Obama wants, she’s going forward with because you know why?”
“Now imagine Donald Trump sitting in the Situation Room, making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the United States”, Clinton said. And in an NBC poll in May, 56 percent chose Clinton when asked which of the two candidates would be better handling foreign policy. He even wanted to give her a new nickname – or rather, an old nickname. Clinton kept working on the specific language right up right before the speech, and a story about Navy SEALs protecting civilians during the 2011 operation that killed Osama bin Laden was a final addition.
Foreign policy rarely takes center stage in presidential campaigns.
For Clinton’s strong showing to have lasting impact, it will need to be more than just a one-off moment.
Someone like Mr Trump could not be in charge of the country’s nuclear codes, she said, and his proposals were vague and often nonsensical.
“If you really believe America is weak – with our military, our values, our capabilities that no other country comes close to matching – then you don’t know America”, she said.
According to the poll, Clinton’s image rating has continued to decline in California, with 64 percent of likely Democratic voters viewing her favorably and 30 percent negatively. She portrayed her own foreign policy as optimistic, inclusive and diplomatic, born from long experience in public life. But there was no mention of her vote, as a senator, to invade Iraq; nor her championing, as secretary of state, of the disastrous military intervention in Libya.
Clinton, a former US senator and secretary of state, is scheduled to return to California on Thursday and campaign throughout the weekend.
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“She doesn’t have the temperament to be president”.
