Hillary Clinton said she is "very disappointed" in her friend Donald Trump for his anti-Mexican immigrant comments, but she attacked the full field of GOP presidential candidates for being on "a spectrum of hostility" toward immigrants.
"I feel very bad and very disappointed with him and the Republican party for not responding immediately and saying 'enough, stop it," Clinton told CNN's Brianna Keilar in her first national interview since launching her presidential campaign. "But they are all in the same general area on immigration. They don't want to provide a path to citizenship. They range across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcoming or hostile toward immigrants."
Clinton suggested there was little difference between Trump and Republican frontrunner Jeb Bush. "He doesn't believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does," she said.
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Journalists covering the former secretary of state have complained loudly about lack of access to Clinton on the campaign trail, including over the weekend when they were literally corralled with ropes to prevent them from getting close enough to hear her interactions with voters at a 4th of July parade.
Clinton was widely considered the presumptive nominee for Democrats until recent weeks when Sen. Bernie Sanders began drawing large crowds at rallies, piling up donations and rising in the pre-primary polls. The latest CNN/ORC poll has Clinton's previously commanding lead dwindling to almost nothing in the first primary state of New Hampshire.
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