Clinton spoke out forcefully in favor of new gun control measures immediately after Thursday’s shooting by a lone gunman on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, which killed nine people and wounded another nine.
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“I knew she wouldn’t be here before 3:30”, said Broward County resident Barry Rabinowitz, who was holding a handmade “Hillary” sign, “that’s how it works”.
“If I came earlier I would be gone already”, said Skyers.
Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., a Clinton supporter, said the immigration discussion among the Republican candidates has helped Clinton with Hispanic voters. “She is the most qualified person to be president of the United States and she knows the issues”.
“And as I have said, we have got to get the political will to do everything we can to keep people safe”, she continued. The latest Real Clear Politics average of national polls shows Clinton with 40.8 percent, 26.8 percent for Bernie Sanders and 20 percent for Vice President Joe Biden. Elizabeth Warren, who are still on the sidelines in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“The Republicans should take a hard look at what they are about when you have a guy in line to be the Speaker saying something like that, ‘ Clinton said”.
Clinton plans to use the Florida visit to launch Latinos for Hillary and sit for an interview with Telemundo, the Spanish-language TV network, according to her campaign. She says Republicans have put the interests of the National Rifle Association “ahead of American families”. In Cleveland in September, the day after a fatal shooting of a news reporter and photographer live on-air in Virginia, Clinton voiced her support for universal background checks on gun buyers. She’ll also be talking at next week’s Congressional Hispanic Conference Institute’s annual awards gala.
Latinos among the almost 2,000 people in attendance tuned into the immigration comments, particularly because they were made on the home turf of another presidential candidate – Florida Sen. Ingoglia sees that as unethical and believes it may have jeopardized national security.
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He said in a statement that on Friday “Hillary Clinton makes her way to South Florida to convince donors and voters that her negative headlines, FBI investigations, and unsuccessful record are not hurting her campaign”.
