“Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent”.
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Each event draws its own crowds, with Sanders gathering together hopeful youths, Bill Clinton drawing in those who support his wife and remember his presidency for good or ill, and Trump pulling in his supporters, protesters and those who just want to be part of a Trump rally.
“He is not just unprepared – he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and huge responsibility”, Clinton said.
A former US secretary of state, Clinton attacked Trump for his policies and his character, suggesting Trump might start a nuclear war if elected to the White House simply because “someone got under his very thin skin”.
Her campaign followed up afterward by blasting out more than three dozen distinct Trump quotations that Clinton had alluded to, with the subject line: “Trump Literally Said All Those Things”.
For Clinton, who has acknowledged her weakness as a campaigner, it was a confident and well-timed performance.
During her speech, Clinton predicted that Trump, who has been deeply critical of Clinton’s foreign policy record, would take to his Twitter account to insult her, and he did, immediately shooting back with a tweet using his new preferred moniker for Clinton: “crooked Hillary”.
It came as she is ramping up her criticism of the presumptive Republican nominee and trying to quell concerns within her own party that she doesn’t have a plan of attack for the general election. Victory was assured. Democrats only had to ponder how big their triumph over the unelectable Donald Trump would be: Big enough to capture states that have been Republican strongholds, such as Arizona and Georgia?
In a major address in San Diego, Hillary Clinton went after Donald Trump on what is considered a key vulnerability, his temperament. Reading poorly from the teleprompter! “She doesn’t even look presidential!” “Hillary Clinton has to go to jail”.
It’s hard to say whether the two presidential nominees or their representatives will return to our area for the November election, but wouldn’t it be great if they recognized that California and our corner of it counts?
“He’s a bully. That’s what he is”. Nelson said she is disgusted with the Republican party. Anyone groping to excuse Clinton’s conduct eventually has to face the stark, infuriating fact: What she did served no objective beyond letting her selfishly evade the rules and accountability demanded of everyone else. She said of Trump’s vague proposals: “This isn’t reality television – this is actual reality”.
Hillary Clinton delivers a speech on national security in San Diego.
Clinton showed a new side of herself, ridiculing Trump with both policy and humor.
“Imagine Donald Trump sitting in the Situation Room, making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the United States”.
Those who called this a campaign speech and not substantive apparently missed the sections on why strong alliances matter, what to do about Syria, how to lead with America’s moral values, and why creating a vacuum “will either cause chaos, or other countries will rush in to fill the void”. “Do we want his finger anywhere near the button?”
Sanders also dug into Trump’s views on climate change during a rally in Fairfield, where temperatures soared past 95 degrees in a state dealing with drought.
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Trump says US foreign policy has failed.
