“I don’t even think about responding to him anymore”

Using her most dismissive language of the campaign — “I don’t even think about responding to him anymore” — Clinton said Saturday she is now more focused on electing other Democrats in the final days of the 2016 campaign than her Republican opponent.

“As we’re traveling in these last 17 days we’re going to be emphasizing the importance of electing Democrats down the ballot,” Clinton told reporters aboard her campaign plane.

It was the surest declaration of confidence yet from a candidate and a campaign that enters the home stretch in so commanding a position that they are redirecting cash and manpower to traditionally red states, including Arizona, Missouri, Indiana and Georgia.

Clinton delivered a preview of her coming rhetorical focus at a rally in Pittsburgh, as she excoriated Republican Sen. Pat Toomey for standing with Trump and sought to saddle Toomey with some of Trump’s most incendiary remarks.