Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was in Charlotte Thursday for a midday rally at Johnson C. Smith University.
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The three also criticized Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democratic candidate for governor.
Gillian Warner, 17, of State College kicked off the event and urged the crowd to register more voters for the upcoming election. But the 20-year-old junior – majoring in political science and pre-law and minoring in communications – said he had already been politically active back home in Las Vegas.
Cooper has said he has defended laws he disagreed with personally, but has said HB2 is a different in that it’s about “discrimination” and a “national embarrassment”. Clinton was repeatedly challenged on her controversial email use at the State Department and her vote as a senator for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
“I will never forget the horror of that day”, Clinton said.
“Of course there were no discussions of any of the covert actions in process, being determined whether or not to go forward”, Clinton said about emails that were scrutinized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Johnson is struggling to reach 15 percent approval in voter polls, which would allow him to take part in the debates between Trump and Clinton.
Some of those Republicans will join Clinton Friday for what she dubbed a “working session” on the threat of terrorism. But her past reluctance to take questions from a freewheeling pack of traveling journalists – commonplace in presidential politics – has fueled criticism about her relatability and provided ammunition to Republicans and their nominee, Donald Trump, who have accused her of hiding to avoid scrutiny.
In black ink, the question asked Clinton if she would rather have dinner with Trump or Putin.
“You see this first-hand in North Carolina”. Real Clear Politics polling average gives Clinton a 1.2-point lead, well within the margin of error. Though he didn’t state his preference outright, when Carter ran down Clinton’s list of accomplishments, on children’s health care, negotiating treaties as secretary of State, plus the ringing endorsement from Obama, and used the words “fraud, conceitedness and bigotry” when describing Donald Trump’s bona fides, it was pretty obvious where he stood.
McPherson says she likes Clinton. The FBI has said she was “extremely careless” in handling sensitive information.
“That is not just unpatriotic, it’s not just insulting to the office and to the man who holds the office”.
“At the rate we are going, by 2030 – which is not that far away – $70 billion dollars of coastal property in this state will be flooding at high tide”, she said. “They make no sense to me”, she said.
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David Lightman and William Douglas of the McClatchy Washington Bureau contributed.
