Hillary Clinton will give a speech in San Diego on Thursday that her campaign says will directly target Donald Trump's foreign policy. "It's important that people understand this is not just about Republican versus Democrat, that Trump is unlike any presidential candidate we have seen and he is fundamentally unfit to be our commander in chief," Clinton aide Jake Sullivan said, previewing the speech. Sullivan said Clinton will focus on Trump's willingness to sit down with North Korea's Kim Jong Un and his comments about NATO being obsolete and a bad deal for U.S. taxpayers. Some voters have found Trump's unorthodox foreign policy ideas refreshing, he conceded, but he predicted that "once people fully understand what Donald Trump is proposing, that it will not be appealing to any of them."
Clinton is also expected to address Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S. and his kind words for Russian President Vladimir Putin, among other topics. Voters give Clinton higher marks on foreign policy than Trump, and many Republican foreign policy experts have pledged never to support Trump. Thursday's speech, at 11:30 a.m. in California (2:30 p.m. Eastern), will not break new ground from the handful of foreign policy and national security speeches Clinton has already given, her campaign said, but will instead focus on what she will characterize as Trump's dangerous and erratic ideas.
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