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"I think she is going to press the button. ... She is going to be hawkish, she is going to be more hawkish in that role," Johnson said in a University of New Hampshire town hall moderated by MSNBC's Chris Matthews.

"I think that she is not going to err on the side of not being an aggressor."

Johnson added that he would be the only candidate who could be trusted with the nuclear codes as president.

"I think she is going to shoot. She is going to shoot. She is not going to be herself. She is not going to be perceived as weak. She is going to shoot," he said later.

Weld said Trump would be better off running a laundry business than campaigning to become the president of the United States.