“We are trying to elect a president, not a dictator,” Hillary Clinton said of Donald Trump Friday. | Getty Trump wants to be a 'dictator', Clinton suggests

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Hillary Clinton went there.

“We are trying to elect a president, not a dictator,” she said of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump at a campaign rally here on Friday, just days before the California Democratic primary.


After a day of ripping into Trump over his comments on immigration and his repeated insistence that an Indiana-born judge would not treat him fairly because of his Mexican heritage, the comment was Clinton’s starkest yet.

One day after delivering a high-profile address in San Diego designed to paint Trump as unfit for the Oval Office, the former secretary of state criss-crossed southern California, looking to close out her primary contest with Bernie Sanders while taking direct aim at her likely general election opponent.

At each event — in Culver City, Westminster, Santa Ana, and here — she started to describe her speech, but was drowned out in applause before being able to finish her sentence.

And at the last rally in the scorching San Bernardino evening, she once again let loose on Trump, questioning not only his qualifications, but his sincerity.

“I don’t understand Donald Trump running a whole campaign based on nothing but denigrating immigrants,” she said, pointing out that Trump, whose mother was Scottish and whose wife is Slovenian, has family that came over to the United States from abroad. “Is this nothing but a political stunt?"