Hillary Clinton's campaign is going all in on what it believes is a winning political strategy against Donald Trump: Paint him as a dangerous menace to the country.
After slamming Trump for days as a disaster on national security in the aftermath of last weekend's Orlando massacre, Clinton unleashed a similar attack on her Republican rival — this time, on the economy.
The former secretary of state delivered her first general election economic speech in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday morning, in remarks that once again attempted to dismantle Trump's policy prescriptions and cast the businessman as a danger to the U.S. economy.
"You might think that because he has spent his life as a businessman, he'd be better prepared to handle the economy. Well, it turns out, he's dangerous there, too," Clinton told supporters here. "Just like he shouldn't have his finger on the button, he shouldn't have his hands on our economy."
In lengthy remarks, Clinton challenged Trump's policy proposals point by point, from his suggestion to pay off the national debt by printing money to his stance on Wall Street reform to his tax plan. She warned: "Our nation's economy isn't a game."
"Every day we see how reckless and careless Trump is. He's proud of it," she said. "Well, that's his choice, except when he's asking to be president. Then it's our choice."
The speech was filled with memorable zingers. Slamming Trump for lacking a substantive strategy on job-creation, Clinton said: "But maybe we shouldn't expect better from someone whose famous words are: 'You're fired.'"
And as Clinton went after Trump's business record, she mused: "He's written a lot of books about business. They all seem to end at Chapter 11."
Clinton's pivot to the economy comes at a moment of peril for the Trump campaign.
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