Hillary Clinton is still in the midst of a Democratic primary battle with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. | AP Photo Clinton previews her general-election attacks

Previewing her general election line of attack, Hillary Clinton is lambasting Donald Trump as dangerous and unqualified to be president.

“My campaign is not going to let Donald Trump try to normalize himself,” the Democratic presidential front-runner said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I’ve said he was unqualified to be president. I believe that deeply.”


The former New York senator and secretary of state hit the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for refusing to release his tax returns, talking of pulling the U.S. out of NATO and, she said, of “advocating a return to torture, and even murdering the families of suspected terrorists.”

“That is beyond the pale. And it poses immediate dangers,” Clinton said. “There’s no evidence he has any ideas about making America great, as he advertises. He seems to be particularly focused on making himself appear great. And as we go through this campaign, we’re going to be demonstrating the hollowness of his rhetoric. And the danger of a lot of what he has said.”

Trump has said he’d support re-implementing waterboarding and “worse” in interrogating suspected terrorists and that the U.S. should “go after” the families of terrorists.

Clinton is still in the midst of a Democratic primary battle with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. But, in recent days, she’s touted her lead in pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention and declared unequivocally that she would be the nominee.

“Sen. Sanders has every right to finish off his campaign however he chooses,” Clinton said. “There will then be the obvious need for us to unify the party. I faced the same challenge in 2008. I will certainly do my part, reaching out to Sen. Sanders, reaching out to his supporters. And I expect him to do his.”

Repeatedly referring to her 2008 primary loss to then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, Clinton said, “I know what this feels like, having lived through it.”

“We’re going to talk with [Sanders] when he’s ready to talk, and listen to him,” Clinton said. “And we will take into account what he is asking for.”

Looking ahead, Clinton vowed to conduct a thorough search for a vice presidential running mate.

“We should look widely and broadly,” she said. “It’s not just people in elective office. It is successful business people. I am very interested in that.”

She said she appreciated Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s “openness” to considering serving as her running mate.

“I am absolutely intending to look far and wide,” she said. “And I think that is the best way to find somebody who can really capture what’s needed in the country, and business people have, especially successful business people who are really successful as opposed to pretend successful.”

