Clinton takes aim at Trump in Supreme Court speech
Hillary Clinton on Monday blasted Republicans who regularly "bemoan" the rise of Donald Trump, their party's presidential front-runner, while also allowing the GOP to "make the extreme normal" in politics and in Congress.
The former secretary of state, campaigning in Wisconsin ahead of the state's primary on April 5, urged voters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to make the Supreme Court a voting issue, while showing that she is keeping close tabs on the Republican presidential race.
"Donald Trump hasn't come out of nowhere. What the Republicans have sown with their extremist tactics, they are now reaping with Donald Trump's candidacy," Clinton said in a speech. "It wasn't long after Sen. [Mitch] McConnell said his No. 1 goal was to prevent the President's reelection that Donald Trump started his racist campaign to discredit the President's citizenship."
"Remember the birther movement?" asked Clinton, in reference to Trump's 2011 campaign suggesting that President Barack Obama was not actually a U.S. citizen and wasn't born in the United States.
"These things are connected," Clinton said. "When you have leaders willing to bring the whole of government to a halt to make headlines, you may just give rise to candidates who promise to do even more radical and dangerous things. Because once you make the extreme normal, you open the door to even worse."
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