The speech, which had been promoted by the Clinton camp as a talk about foreign policy, showed a pugnacious side of a candidate known more for her wonkish pragmatism.
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“Although her campaign had described the speech as a major foreign policy address, Mrs. Clinton spent more time ridiculing and dismantling Mr. Trump’s statements than she did elucidating her positions”, wrote The New York Times.
“I will say this: Hillary Clinton has got to go to jail”.
Trump hit back, tweeting midway through the speech that it was a “bad performance” and that Clinton “doesn’t even look presidential”.
Clinton is nearly certain to clinch the Democratic nomination just before polls close in the state, but a defeat in the largest contest in the country would be an embarrassing final scene to her historic primary win.
She said that Trump’s approach to foreign policy and other serious issues is “dangerously incoherent”. Reading poorly from the teleprompter!
The Vermont senator said Sunday that he could win California as well as five other state contests, calling it a “symbolic victory” that would allow him to enter the Democratic convention in July with “the majority of pledged delegates”.
She also says that when Trump “insults” Muslims, as well as Mexican Americans, he should remember that Muslim and Mexican-Americans serve in the US military.
“Making the right call takes a cool head and respect for the facts”, Clinton said.
With just days to go before California’s presidential primary, the race between Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is now a statistical tie, according to a new poll.
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.
Clinton, who formerly served as secretary of state, first lady and U.S. senator, is vying to become the first female president in America’s 239-year history.
She contrasts that with Trump’s vision of a “fearful America” that she says would be less secure and less engaged in the world.
“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 argued in her speech Thursday that Trump lacks the temperament and experience to be president.
At the event in San Jose, California on Thursday, some of his supporters were punched and spat at, another was pelted with eggs.
In a speech to a revved up California crowd, Donald Trump was on the attack against the presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over her private email server.
A gay, Portland-native Trump supporter named Sean drove 400 miles to be in Redding on Friday afternoon to hear the billionaire businessman speak. Clinton, who is also a former USA senator and former first lady, mocked this.
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Democratic and Republican presidents have been generally consistent on policies affecting China, Russia, North Korea, nuclear proliferation, trade, alliances and many other issues but Clinton and Trump offer starkly different visions of United States foreign policy.
