Clinton and Trump trade wins – and barbs – with rivals in Western states

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton traded wins with their chief rivals on Tuesday and attacked each other’s world views as the 2016 presidential contest turned into a clash of would-be commanders in chief. While both front-runners scored victories in the night’s biggest prize of Arizona, Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders won caucuses in Utah and Idaho and Republican Ted Cruz claimed his party’s caucuses in Utah. The victories kept Clinton and Trump from dominating another election night, but they both maintained a comfortable lead in the race for delegates that decide the presidential nominations.

This is about not only selecting a president, but also selecting a commander in chief. The last thing we need is leaders who incite more fear.

Hillary Clinton makes a dig at Donald Trump

Clinton, speaking in Seattle, condemned Trump by name and denounced his embrace of torture and hardline rhetoric aimed at Muslims. Trump, in turn, branded Clinton as “Incompetent Hillary” as he discussed her tenure as secretary of state. “Incompetent Hillary doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” the billionaire businessman said in an interview with Fox News. “She doesn’t have a clue." Cruz, meanwhile, seized on Trump’s foreign policy inexperience while declaring that the U.S. is at war with the Islamic State group. Trump’s brash tone has turned off some Republican voters in Utah, where Cruz claimed more than half of the caucus vote — and with it, all 40 of Utah’s delegates.

He doesn’t have the minimal knowledge one would expect from a staffer at the State Department, much less from the commander in chief.

Republican Ted Cruz

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