Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that Republican opponent Donald Trump will set the tone for the general election battle that is likely to come down to the two candidates.
“How scorched Earth is this race going to be?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked the former secretary of state during an interview aired Wednesday afternoon.
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“You know, he’s the one that’s making that decision. Not me,” Clinton said of Trump.
“He’s the one who has run the campaign insulting people, demeaning women, degrading people with disabilities [and] talking about keeping Muslims out of the country,” she told Cooper.
Clinton said Trump, who was dubbed the “presumptive nominee” by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus after winning the Indiana primary Tuesdy evening, can “choose to run whatever campaign he wants to run” between now and November.
“I’m going to keep staying on the campaign I’m running,” she said. “I’m going to keep telling people what I will do as president and I’m going to keep being specific because I think people want to know what you’re going to do and they can hold you accountable that way.”
Trump has repeatedly told his supporters that he plans to “unload” on Clinton if he makes it to the general election.
“There’s an entire generation of voters out there that know nothing about Hillary Clinton other than what they have heard in the last two to three years,” Trump’s national spokeswoman Katrina Pierson told MSNBC on Wednesday. “There is plenty of information that needs to be discussed on top of the Clinton Foundation, which has not been fully discussed in the media.”
