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U.S. NEWSThursday 24 March 2016
Vowing to defeat ISIS, Hillary
Clinton takes on Donald Trump
CATHERINE LUCEY policy addresses this week, ton said.
the Democratic front-run- Trump quickly dismissed her
Associated Press ner has worked to under- speech on Twitter and in-
cut Trump’s credentials in sisted he’s better prepared
LISA LERER the wake of deadly bomb- to take over the country’s
ings in Brussels. Her goal is fight against Islamic State
Associated Press to transform the voters’ vi- militants.
sion of the bombastic real- “Just watched Hillary deliv-
STANFORD, California (AP) ity TV star into a potential er a prepackaged speech
commander in chief with on terror. She’s been in of-
— Hillary Clinton is doing his finger on a nuclear trig- fice fighting terror for 20
ger — an image her team years — and look where
what Republican rivals believes will repel voters in we are!” he wrote, adding:
November. “I will be the best by far in
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stands on now say they took far too Clinton is casting herself as fighting terror. I’m the only
stage as she is introduced by former U.S. Ambassador to Russia a calm harbor in a stormy one that was right from the
Michael McFaul to speak about counterterrorism, Wednesday, long to do: Taking the Re- world, frequently mention- beginning, & now Lyin’ Ted
March 23, 2016, at the Bechtel Conference Center at Stanford ing the need for “steady & others are copying me.”
University in Stanford, Calif. publican front-runner Don- hands.” The comment is a That last was a reference
clear reference to Trump to a Republican rival. Texas
Associated Press ald Trump seriously. with the implication he’d Sen. Ted Cruz.
never fill that need. Political strategists in both
In interviews and foreign In a speech Wednesday at parties admit to being
Stanford University, Clinton slightly baffled by the com-
called for “strong, smart, ing general election, ac-
steady leadership,” argu- knowledging they have
ing that recent comments few clear expectations
from Republicans Trump for a match-up between
and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz candidates with such high
show they are not up to the negative ratings and vastly
task of combatting Islamic different personal styles.
militants. But there is one prediction
“Turning our back on our they all agree on: It will get
alliances, or turning our al- ugly.
liance into a protection Though there are still
racket would reverse de- months of primary contests
cades of bipartisan Ameri- to come, the two front-run-
can leadership and send a ners have already begun
dangerous signal to friend trading heated attacks.
and foe alike,” she said, Trump has accused Clin-
referencing a call by Trump ton of being responsible
to lessen U.S. involvement for the deaths of hundreds
in NATO. “Putin already of thousands across the
hopes to divide Europe. If globe. Clinton, in turn, has
Mr. Trump gets his way, it accused him of inciting vio-
will be like Christmas in the lence and likened his rise in
Kremlin.” the polls to “dark chapters”
Clinton also assailed Cruz’s of history like the Holocaust.
call for patrolling Muslim Her aides see foreign pol-
neighborhoods. icy as an area that allows
“When Republican candi- Clinton to highlight both
dates like Ted Cruz call for Trump’s unpredictable
treating American Muslims temperament and lack of
like criminals and for racial- international experience.
ly profiling predominantly Democrats say those
Muslim neighborhoods, it’s points, coupled with his
wrong, it’s counterproduc- controversial statements
tive, it’s dangerous,” Clin- about women.
