Hillary held a ‘cafe event’ in Vallejo, California as the primary results from Puerto Rico were trickling in today. These ‘cafe events’ are roundtable discussions where she sits down with local residents and community leaders and listens to their concerns on particular issues as well as some local solutions to problems. These are signature Hillary Clinton events that she has held ever since her first campaign for the Senate. They are not rousing rallies, but they inform her policy plans. The subject today was health care.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Your supporters have been pretty fired up in the last couple of days as you’ve been taking it to Donald Trump, and you also step it up using words like demagogue and dictator. Have you concluded that the best way to beat Donald Trump is to be a bit more like him?
CLINTON: No, not at all. I laid out in my speech in San Diego the crux of my concerns and my case against him on foreign policy and national security. And a lot of what he says plays into what I consider to be a very divisive and dangerous view of the world. And I think it’s important that we call it for what it is.
Hillary held a conversational event for women and families at Jill’s Place in Santa Barbara. I cannot help thinking this visit it a very felicitous one. Santa Barbara is a very powerful figure in certain cultures. I think she was smiling down on Hillary today.
Hillary held a conversational event on immigration at Los Angeles Mission College Culinary Arts Institute in Sylmar, California. I think the reason Hillary’s plans are so completely thought out and filled out is that she spends time listening to people talk about their concerns and apprehensions. She thinks about these details as she structures her policy plans. It is easy, speaking in generalities, to whip up a crowd at a big rally. But when you send your surrogates into the platform committee will they have bullets and talking points in hand? Or will they have detailed, organized plans? You learn a whole lot more listening than you can speaking. One candidate alone is a good, effective listener.
On Friday, Hillary held a rally with voters in Westminster at the Rose Center Theater and sat down with community leaders in Santa Ana.
In her interview with Jake Tapper earlier in the day, Hillary condemned violence in the political arena. Here is what was happening outside this event in Westminster.
Hillary Clinton addresses the crowd during her last campaign pass through Orange County at UFCW Union Local 324 in Buena Park on May 25.ANA VENEGAS, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Dressed head to toe in navy colored “Hillary 4 president” gear, Helen Evers brought a life size cardboard cut-out of Clinton that she received last month as a birthday present.
“I desperately want to meet her,” said Evers, 70, of Costa Mesa, as she wore socks that had “HILLARY” on it.
In a one-on-one with Hillary on The Lead today, Jake Tapper went directly to the Clinton/Trump battle. Sitting with Hillary in Culver City, he asked her about her comment onTrump and the nuclear code. Hillary explained that the speech was an attempt to shed light on comments Trump has made.
Hillary stood on her experience and said Trump has neither the experience nor the temperament for the presidency.
Hillary condemned all violence in the political arena. Trump created an environment where violence was acceptable.
Hillary doesn’t think any of the violence at the protests are helping anybody. She wants it to end and said the police have a hard enough job. She said Trump set the bar low and now people are jumping over it.
Jobs report: 75 straight months of jobs creation and unemployment rate did drop again. Hillary wants to push for infrastructure jobs. We have come a long way, and Trump’s policies will throw us into another recession. Hillary got very excited talking about how the government can step in and help create jobs through public-private partnerships. You can see that she is raring to go! She wants to get into the office and start doing these things.
The Sanders challenge: Tapper asked why she is having a tough time closing this up. Hillary said wait till Tuesday. She cited shared goals and said they will unify to defeat Trump
Tapper asked about Clinton Foundation donations being compared to Trump U. She called the comparison absurd.
Just my opinion, Hillary is all cranked up. She knows that officially this primary season ends on Tuesday and she is more than ready to get started doing the job many believe she was born to do.
Earlier in the day, at a Women’s Outreach event, Hillary rallied in Culver City with women supporters including Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, Sally Field, Debra Messing, and Elizabeth Banks.
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