“She gets rich making you poor”, Trump said hours earlier during an address in NY.
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The war of words between Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton today reached a new high with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee calling her a “world-class liar” while she hit back describing him as “self-proclaimed king of death” for his rhetoric, economic policies.
It wasn’t close: Hillary Clinton walloped Bernie Sanders in April’s NY primary by 16 percentage points, or almost 300,000 votes.
Trying to revitalize his White House campaign after firing his campaign manager and reporting poor fundraising numbers this week, Trump painted a picture of Clinton as an unethical insider.
Trump assailed Clinton’s support for trade deals, saying they had cost the country almost a third of its manufacturing jobs and that the trade deficit with China soared by 40 percent while she was secretary of state.
Clinton is not considering Sanders as a potential running mate, according to a report by the Associated Press.
A Bloomberg Politics national poll of likely general election voters released June 14 shows that only 55 percent of Sanders supporters would vote for Clinton in November.
The former secretary of state said she would push an array of economic policies aimed at creating better-paying jobs building roads and bridges, offering debt-free college to students and helping those with massive college debt.
In a fiery speech in NY that Clinton’s campaign called “nutty” and “hypocritical”, Trump argued that the former secretary of state is part of a political establishment that has cheated American workers through bad trade deals and endangered US national security.
“I’m gonna be looking, first and foremost, as to who I believe could fulfill the responsibilities of being president and commander in chief”.
Becerra later said that he is not now being vetted as a potential running mate.
Other names listed in the poll are Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.).
In particular, Trump blamed the death of four Americans at a USA facility in Benghazi, Libya, on Clinton. Among those who died was U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
A Senate investigation later found that Stevens had asked for more security, which went unheeded. But he also twice declined the USA military’s offer of a special operations team to bolster security and otherwise help his staff.
Clinton can not afford to take Sanders supporters for granted.
President Barack Obama also said the blame ultimately rested on his shoulders as president.
In a speech he’s delivering Wednesday in NY, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee criticized what he called several lies made by his general election opponent.
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Trump also slammed Clinton and her husband for using their public sector influence to enrich themselves. It’s money that has already been given – and spent.
