“He is not just unprepared, he is temperamentally unfit,” Mrs. Clinton said. Subsequent endorsements of Mrs. Clinton by Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser for the elder president Bush, and Henry Paulson, Treasury secretary for the younger, buttressed her argument. In the New York Times polling average, she leads Mr. Trump, 45 percent to 39 percent. In recent economic and national security speeches, she has cast the broadest possible net by attacking Mr. Trump on personal rather than ideological grounds. Mrs. Clinton, seeking to become America’s first female president, carries more political baggage than Mr. Obama did in running to become the first African-American one.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2016 13:29 UTC