Gov. Jay Inslee reiterated Thursday he supports former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president over Sen.
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Mrs. Clinton has been a “long-term, longtime partner and helped in the election of Democrats across the board”, said Rep. Gregory Meeks, New York Democrat and chairman of the caucus’s political action committee, in announcing the endorsement. In her intro, she very quickly noted that “there aren’t enough good paying jobs, especially for the young”, and actually gave approval to a signature line that Sanders has been using on the trail. Six of New Hampshire’s eight “superdelegates” have publicly said they will vote for Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in July. During his presidential campaign, Sanders has talked up his history of participation in the civil rights movement.
Clinton has been criticized for not being able to encapsulate her rationale for running in just a sentence, but she attempted to do so on Thursday. I’ll take on the Republicans who are disenfranchising voters and rolling back voting rights. It is their first clash since Sanders delivered a 20-point drubbing of Clinton in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, which followed Clinton’s win by the narrowest of margins in the Iowa caucuses. “Even if they are not supporting me now, I support them”, she added.
“I feel like we have to level with people”, she said.
“You need to level with people about what they will have at the end of the process you are proposing”, Clinton said. Both candidates will likely make appeals to Latino and African-American voters that will be decisive in those states.
“Bernie Sanders has an incredibly powerful story to tell”, said adviser Tad Devine.
Clinton is hoping to offset Sanders’ backing from those young Americans by drawing support from the black and Hispanic voters who make up a big share of the electorate in Nevada, South Carolina and other states that come next on the primary calendar. She is expected to attack Mr. Sanders more aggressively on issues that matter to minority voters, defending policies like the health care law achieved by President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., one of two members of Congress to endorse Sanders, claimed today that leaders of the CBC’s political action committee made the decision to back Clinton without the input of the larger Congressional Black Caucus. At the CBC event on Thursday, Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, said he would travel to SC this weekend to campaign for her. “I was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966”. But I met Hillary Clinton.
Former President Bill Clinton is being dispatched to Memphis, Atlanta and Florence, South Carolina, in the coming days, and the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea, is heading to majority-black Flint, where the crisis over water has become a symbol of racial and economic inequality. “Hillary in Denmark. We’re really excited to see that”.
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In one of many moments of agreement between the candidates, Clinton concurred on a need to address a criminal justice system that incarcerates a disproportionate number of minorities.
