“He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and vast responsibly”. It also raises the question of whether the assumption inside her campaign – that opposition to Trump will automatically unify the party – is a flawed premise.
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For Clinton, who has acknowledged her weakness as a campaigner, it was a confident and well-timed performance.
Bernie Sanders’ political revolution – and how far he’s willing to take his presidential campaign – may hinge on the outcome of the California primary Tuesday, with Hillary Clinton poised to clinch the Democratic nomination in the coming days. Clinton, who formerly served as secretary of state, first lady and USA senator, is vying to become the first female president in America’s 239-year history.
Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton’s campaign promised that she would deliver a major national security speech in San Diego on Thursday.
She said a Trump presidency could spark nuclear conflicts overseas and ignite economic catastrophe at home.
“This isn’t reality television”.
We must “condemn all violence in the political arena”, Clinton said.
Clinton also said that that Trump’s victory will be “a historic mistake” as “he will take the country down a truly unsafe path”, Time Magazine reported. She portrayed her own foreign policy as optimistic, inclusive and diplomatic, born from long experience in public life. She told us the lawyers signed off on it.
“She has continued to lie about it”. He did so again on Thursday.
Sanders wants Democrats to break with tradition. It prompted some commentators to call the week a “turning point” in the coverage of Donald Trump.
The result? Clinton succeeded in generating the same kind of attention Trump receives for his frequent rallies and news conferences: Her remarks were widely carried on the television news networks.
The unexpectedly tight race underscores the degree to which Clinton is still struggling to rally the base behind her candidacy, including her challenge in winning over millennials. Trump has no such problem. Still, for voters nervous about Trump’s total lack of knowledge on this ostensibly crucial topic, Clinton’s rhetorical assault was a scorched-earth victory.
Even Jerry Brown, the state’s governor who lost a contentious presidential primary here to Clinton’s husband in 1992, is on board.
There was notable silence from many other Republicans, some of whom made similar arguments about Trump’s temperament and inexperience during the GOP primary. That included his statements about how more countries, including Saudi Arabia, should acquire nukes; his lines about how the U.S. should torture suspected terrorists and “go after” their families; his contention that America should consider pulling out of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; his apparent flirtation with the idea the USA could default on its debt; his praise for antidemocratic regimes in Russian Federation and China-the list goes on.
“I have to say, Hillary is giving a hell of a good speech on national security – taking down the Donald while making a convincing case”, Eliot Cohen, a foreign policy official for Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, wrote on Twitter.
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If Clinton plans to avoid those same mistakes, she now has the message she needs in hand.
