As Hillary Clinton again repeated what will be her campaign-long mantra — Donald Trump is “temperamentally unfit” for the presidency — the presumed Republican nominee on Tuesday night delivered a powerful speech that laid out what will be his own central thrust: “We can turn this all around … by putting America First.”

“I will never let you down.”

“Every election year, politicians promise change — Obama promised change, and it didn’t work — and every year, they fail to deliver,” Trump said in a victory speech at the Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff, New York. “Tonight, we close one chapter in history and begin another … You’ve given me the honor to lead the Republican Party to victory this fall.  I understand the responsibility of carrying this mantle, and I will never let you down. I will make you proud of your party — and our movement.”

Top party leaders have been begging Trump to become more presidential, especially after a weekend of controversy over his remarks criticizing a federal judge that provoked cries of racism from Republicans. So on Tuesday, Trump, uncharacteristically delivering his speech from a teleprompter, went big, laying out what prompted him to run for the highest office in the land and expounding on what he hopes to deliver as president.

“I didn’t need to do this — it’s not easy — but I felt I had to give back to our wonderful country which has been so good to me. I’ve traveled to many of our states and seen the suffering in people’s eyes,” Trump said. “Now I’m going to fight for you. I’m going to be your champion. I’m going to be America’s champion.”

“Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into her private hedge fund.”

He quickly turned his sights on the Clintons — especially Hillary, her of the $300,000 speeches — and gave Republicans the red meat they have been waiting for. “The Clintons have turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves,” Trump said. “They’ve made hundreds of millions of dollars selling access, selling favors, selling government contracts, and I mean hundreds of millions of dollars.”

He hammered the Clinton machine for cashing in on all its connections. “Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into her private hedge fund,” Trump said. “The Russians, the Saudis, the Chinese all gave money to Bill and Hillary and got favorable treatment in return. It’s a sad day in America when foreign governments with deep pockets have more influence in our own country than our great citizens.”

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Trump railed on Clinton for her email scandal “designed to keep her corrupt dealings out of the public record, putting the security of the entire country at risk — and a president in a corrupt system is protecting her.”

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He also hit Clinton’s foreign policy — a direct response to her pointed criticism of him in a vitriolic speech last week. “Hillary’s foreign policy, which invaded Libya, destabilized Iraq, unleashed ISIS and threw Syria into chaos and created the mass migration, which is wreaking havoc all over the world, while putting Iran on the path to nuclear weapons and making them a dominant power in the Middle East,” Trump said. Adding, in true Trump fashion, “Better hope I’m president.”

But his most powerful points were on the state of America — and the disaster that a Hillary presidency would be.

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“America is getting taken apart, piece by piece, auctioned off to the highest bidder. We’re broke. Our infrastructure is a disaster. Our schools are failing. Crime is rising. People are scared. The last thing we need is Hillary Clinton in the White House or an extension of the Obama disaster.”

Trump went full Reagan at one point, making a play for those who didn’t vote for him — Republican and Democrat. “To those who voted for someone else — in either party — I will work hard to earn your support. To all of those Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of super delegates, we welcome you with open arms — and believe me, the terrible trade deals that Bernie was so vehemently against will be taken care of far better than in your wildest imagination.

“Because you see, this election isn’t about Republican or Democrat. It’s about who runs this country: the special interests, or the American people,” Trump said. He offered his own prescription for solving the perennial problem of insider Washington. “After years of disappointment, there is one thing we’ve all learned by now: We can’t fix the rigged system by relying on the very people who rigged it. We can’t solve our problems by counting on the politicians who created our problems,” he said.

“We can turn this all around. We’re going to do it by putting America First.”

And then he went to that shining city on a hill. “We can turn this all around. We’re going to do it by putting America First.

“It is important to understand what America First means. It means on foreign policy, we will never enter into any conflict unless it makes us safer as a nation … On trade, America First means the American worker will have his or her job protected from unfair foreign competition … On energy policy, America First means opening up America’s great potential to bring wealth and prosperity to our own workers …

“On economic policy, America First means having tax and regulatory policies that keep jobs and wealth in the United States … On immigration policy, America First means protecting the jobs, wages and security of American workers — whether first or tenth generation. The beauty of America First is that it brings us all together.”

And Trump closed with big promises: “I’m here today to tell you things have to change. We have no choice,” he said. “We will make our communities wealthy again. We will make our cities safe again. We will make our country strong again. Ladies and gentlemen: We will make America great again.”