“Anybody who wants to be president should give attention to Puerto Rico”, she said, “and should remind our fellow Americans: Puerto Ricans are American citizens”.
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They waved signs in English and Spanish.
Clinton’s speech was ostensibly part of a rollout of a five-year, $275 billion infrastructure spending proposal that Clinton says can be financed by “business tax reform” to create jobs and boost economic output.
The former secretary of state has moved to deflect criticism with a sweeping campaign-finance overhaul, which she calls the “democracy revitalization” pillar of her platform.
In the Quinnipiac poll Mr. Sanders would defeat Republican frontrunner Donald Trump by 8 points, while Hillary Clinton would defeat him by only 6 points. General elections are not decided by the pool of voters in the Democratic and Republican nominating campaigns but by the broader poll of voters in the general election campaign where the victor is usually the candidate who can win the most votes from political independents and members of the other party in the decisive vote on Election Day on the first Tuesday in November. “Make sure you do vote on March the 1st”, Clinton said.
“The reason for coming is not just the weather”, she said.
But Clinton’s Midas touch with big donors also poses substantial dangers, both to her campaign and to Democrats in 2016. Clinton said, noting Scott’s rejection in 2011 of $2 billion in federal money for high-speed rail.
“Well I have one word for them – “Basta” – enough, let’s end this”, Clinton said.
“We must authorize resources for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study and research the causes and effects of gun violence in the United States of America”, a Sanders campaign email said on Thursday. She says the fact that Clinton is a woman makes her attractive to many voters.
Clinton referred to traffic congestion and delays in the Orlando area and elsewhere in Florida and accused Sen.
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The poll found that not only are candidates such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio – home state favorites who many believe have the best chance of neutralizing Clinton’s strengths with minorities, women and other key demographics – beating Clinton right now, but so are outsiders such as Trump and Ben Carson. As six-figure checks roll in to the Hillary Victory Fund-a so-called joint fundraising committee that will divvy up receipts among Clinton’s presidential campaign, the DNC, and state parties from Alaska to Wyoming, Clinton will face fresh scrutiny over her ties to Wall Street and to moneyed interests.
