Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole says Donald Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE has got to “catch up” to Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE in the wake of her blistering attacks on him this week.

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“I think Hillary tried laying a groundwork, and I think that’s going to be sort of her template,” Dole told The New York Times on Friday.

“He has criticism of Hillary, but it’s sort of been scattered.”

Dole, the 1996 GOP presidential nominee, added that Trump “has got to catch up.”

Clinton launched a series of major attacks on Trump during a foreign policy speech Thursday, calling him “temperamentally unfit” to be president.

Dole served in the Senate from 1969 to 1996, leading the Republican caucus starting in 1985.

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