After her speech, Clinton officially filed her paperwork as a candidate in South Carolina’s primary.
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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will on Sunday propose a $6,000 tax credit for costs associated with caring for elderly and disabled family members, and allowing caregivers to accrue Social Security retirement benefits for such work.
Clinton will further detail proposals to cut middle-class taxes over the coming weeks and months, her campaign said. “Well, I don’t want to see your taxes go up”.
“There are differences in this race”, O’Malley said. “I am not a former socialist, I am not a former Republican”.
Her campaign’s organizational strength showed at Saturday’s event, with numerous attendees passing through the magnetometers to claim the first seats sporting royal blue t-shirts emblazoned with her logo on the front. Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley were also expected to address the crowd.
But, when pressed, he conceded that he has a ways to go. “And make sure we are raising incomes for the middle class, not raising taxes on the middle class. And I will not do that”. He said that Sanders’ popularity among his circle of friends and colleagues is growing.
Those cuts would be paid for “by a set of proposals Clinton supports in order to ensure the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share”, an aide said last week. “Now, not so much”. It is up to the voters to decide whether or not this is a make or break issue that will define who they choose as the party’s nominee.
“You have my vote”, she told him as he approached her and shook her hand after he made his remarks.
O’Malley was even more direct the Sanders, telling reporters after his speech that Clinton, because of her more hawkish foreign policy, had “one foot trapped in the Cold War” and “has never demonstrated a capacity to understand what comes after a regime is toppled”.
The Clinton campaign is also releasing two new advertisements that will start airing in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire next week.
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In his speech, O’Malley acknowledged his challenge in the race, in SC and nationally.
