NEWARK, NJ – JUNE 01: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally on June 1, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey. Clinton will head back to California tomorrow where she is in a tight race with Democratic challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT). (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Source: Time
Hillary Clinton hasn’t yet decided which Donald Trump she’s running against.
A loose cannon who even Republicans don’t like? Or a harsh ideologue committed todangerous ideas on subjects like abortion? A plutocrat who wants to cut taxes on the rich? Or afraud who doesn’t mean what he says?
Members of the Brooklyn-based campaign and its allies have served up some version of each of those arguments against the presumptive Republican nominee. The voices sometimes contradict themselves, but reinforce a growing pile-on. Each makes a clear argument, but taken as a whole, they leave a muddled mess about why, exactly, voters should reject Trump.
Clinton will start to sharpen one line of criticism on Thursday, when she is set to deliver what aides are calling a major foreign policy address in San Diego.
“You will hear in her speech a confidence in America and our capacity to overcome the challenges we face while staying true to our values—a strong contrast to Donald Trump’s incessant trash-talking of America,” Clinton senior adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters late Wednesday. “She’ll make clear that the choice in this election goes beyond partisanship. Donald Trump is unlike any presidential nominee we’ve seen in modern times, and he is fundamentally unfit for the job.”
Clinton has previously called Trump unqualified for the Presidency, but aides suggested she would go further when she speaks in the address, criticizing his “America First” approach to foreign policy as misguided and his attacks on Mexico, China and Muslims as wrong. A second Clinton aide promised she would “rebuke the fear, bigotry and misplaced defeatism that Trump has been selling to the American people” and “make the affirmative case for the exceptional role America has played and must continue to play in order to keep our country safe and our economy growing.”
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