“It matters that she has a record of finding allies and building alliances wherever, whenever possible to actually deliver for our country and our future”, Clinton said. “. Gun control is one of the issues I didn’t know I could care anymore about until I became a parent”.
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Calling out Gov. Pat McCrory (R) and the GOP-dominated legislature for trying to pass restrictive voter ID laws and cut early voting, Clinton told the crowd that such measures targeted Democratic-leaning populations like students, African Americans, Latinos and the disabled.
“I think about the Newtown families every day, and I can’t imagine what it must be like to not have your children come home from school”, she said.
“Chelsea is the only Clinton I haven’t met”, Bethany Hamilton said.
She also stressed the need to register young people in Pennsylvania to vote in the coming election.
It’s a message that some college students, particularly the hundreds in a group called Penn State Students for Hillary, will embrace. It’s important to get people between 18 and 25 engaged in this election and for them to be ready to vote.
Bill Clinton outlined his wife’s education and immigration policies in a 30-minute speech in Durham. As Clinton told the crowd in Charlotte, the appeals court ruling that blocked the restrictions noted that they targeted “African Americans with nearly surgical precision”.
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“Although we certainly support Chelsea’s right to campaign on her mother’s behalf, we do not agree with Mrs. Clinton choosing to make this “conversation” available exclusively to individuals who can afford or are willing to pay at least $500″, said Ethan Paul, vice president of College Progressives of Penn State.
