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brooklynite

(94,501 posts)
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 07:58 AM Jun 2016

Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech

Washington Post

Hillary Clinton’s campaign hopes that there are many more national-­security-minded Republicans and independents who would vote for her, even grudgingly, rather than see Donald Trump win the White House. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
By Anne Gearan June 1 at 12:01 AM
Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor plans to vote for Hillary Clinton for president this year, but not because the longtime Republican and former top aide to then-Gen. David Petraeus has had a political conversion. He just thinks Republican Donald Trump is too dangerous to be president.

“It will be the first Democratic presidential candidate I’ve voted for in my adult life,” said Mansoor, a professor of military history at Ohio State University.

Clinton’s campaign hopes that there are many more national-­security-minded Republicans and independents who would vote for her, even grudgingly, rather than see Trump win the White House. Those voters are an important part of the audience for her case that she is fit to be commander in chief and that Trump is not.

Clinton has begun making that argument more forcefully as her long primary battle grinds to a close. She will deliver what her campaign calls a major foreign policy address in California on Thursday, focused both on her ideas and leadership credentials and on what she will describe as the threat Trump poses to national security.
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Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2016 OP
responses to his should be very .... telling nt geek tragedy Jun 2016 #1
Hard to pick 'a' response ... So many to chose from 4139 Jun 2016 #2
lol, I guess for people who value Vladimir Putin's endorsement geek tragedy Jun 2016 #3
K & R BootinUp Jun 2016 #4
You have got to be fucking shitting me. frylock Jun 2016 #5
There's so much dirt on Rump it's, almost, unbelievable. MoonRiver Jun 2016 #6
 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
3. lol, I guess for people who value Vladimir Putin's endorsement
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 08:26 AM
Jun 2016

I can see why Hillary would not be their first choice in November, given that he endorsed Trump.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
6. There's so much dirt on Rump it's, almost, unbelievable.
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 12:19 PM
Jun 2016

Can't wait to watch Hillary's take down of that bottom feeder! It's going to be prime time entertainment!

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