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Related: About this forumClinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech
Hillary Clintons 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 Ive voted for in my adult life, said Mansoor, a professor of military history at Ohio State University.
Clintons 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)
BootinUp
Jun 2016
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SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)1. Love her!
anotherproletariat
(1,446 posts)2. Looking forward to this! nt
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)3. I think secretly there are other Republicans who are thinking the same.
Though some have tried to coach Trump he continues to perform terribly, he is not serious.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)4. Some may say they support Trump but vote for Hillary
Sane Republicans won't vote for him
George II
(67,782 posts)5. The campaign for the Presidency is on. Good job Madam President!