Hillary ClintonNews: Republicans Have Only Themselves To Blame For Trump

Is Donald Trump as a presidential nominee a scary prospect? He does seem so, as Republicans seem to be jittery about him. But they are the ones to blame, said Hillary Clinton Monday. She hinted that they were extremists, who were trying to undercut President Obama's constitutional obligation to fill in the Supreme Court.

She went back to what the Senate majority leader had once said---that the party's main purpose should be to make Obama "a one-term president." She also pointed out that the leading Republican presidential contender, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, had started a 2013 government shutdown while he tried to unravel Obama's health law.

"What the Republicans have sown with their extremist tactics, they are now reaping with Donald Trump's candidacy," Clinton said.

Clinton's address at the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison seemed to woo voters for the primary on April 5 and was also a pre-runner for the November general elections.

Her comments came as she stressed on the Supreme Court as a voting issue, which is extremely important since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

The Senate Republicans' refusal to regard Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, was "the latest in a long line of actions aimed at disrupting our government and undermining our president," she added.

"These things are connected," she said. "Once you make the extreme normal, you open the door to even worse."

However, the fight is not over just one seat in the high court. It November, two other justices will be at least 80 years old.

It "could demolish the pillars of the progressive movement," if the Republican Party elects multiple justices, after a period in which the court had already taken a "dangerous turn" by inclining towards the wealthy and powerful.

"At its best, the court is a place where the least powerful voices in our society are heard and protected," she said, including those of African-Americans "fighting for the right to vote," or women demanding abortion rights in the face of "humiliating laws that would strip that right away."

"Conservatives know exactly how high the stakes are," she said, noting how often Republicans have sought to challenge Obama's policies in the courts. "As scary as it might be, ask yourselves: What kind of justice will a President Trump appoint? Or for that matter, what kind of attorney general? What kind of lower court judges?"