Brendan Bordelon reports for National Review Online that Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s recent campaign stops signal she might be looking ahead to November.
Clinton’s focus on Virginia — both as a key general-election battleground and for the potential vice-presidential pick it contains — underscores her campaign’s belief that she’s about to bury Bernie Sanders. Just like at her husband’s Virginia rally last week, talk of her Democratic challenger was entirely upstaged by discussion of her probable Republican opponent.
“I think she’s going to be facing off against Donald Trump,” said Kaine during his speech, drawing boos from the around 300 Democrats in attendance. “Trump said in the debate a couple weeks back, ‘The American military is a disaster.’ I don’t want somebody who is a commander-in-chief to talk that way about the 1.6 million American men and women who volunteered, in a time of war, to serve their country! I want a commander-in-chief who respects the military and their families – who will greet them with gratitude, not contempt.”
Clinton also seemed fixated on Trump, repeating the Republican’s slogan in a phrase fast becoming a fixture at her own campaign rallies. “You know, America never stopped being great,” she said. “We have to make America WHOLE again!”
Even when she took a shot at Sanders, she couldn’t resist twisting it back against Trump. “I do have a disagreement with my esteemed opponent in the Democratic primary, because he wants to give everybody free college,” she said. “I am not going to tax you and your family to send Donald Trump’s youngest child to college FOR FREE!”
