Joe Raedle-Getty Images Democratic Presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls for an end to the Cuban trade embargo as she gives a policy speech at the Florida worldwide University on July 31, 2015 in Miami, Florida.
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ORLANDO, Florida (AP) – Following his own advice, Jeb Bush is taking his presidential campaign to the neighborhoods and churches where Hispanics and African Americans live and worship in an effort to broaden his appeal among minority voters.
In addition to Clinton and Bush, other 2016 candidates including Ben Carson, Sen.
“I just don’t want to see another Bush or Clinton in the White House”, said Audrey Peterman, 63, owner of an environmental consulting company in Fort Lauderdale. The flag saw major controversy after the Charleston shooting when it flew outside the South Carolina Statehouse.
When candidate debates start in October, she’ll presumably engage more directly with her Democratic rivals.
Clinton’s team has also engaged the activists behind Black Lives Matter.
“Yearly we buried 300 younger black males who died violent deaths on our streets, and black lives matter”, stated O’Malley, recalling his tenure as Baltimore mayor.
“I think all of us need to do that kind of introspection”. And as a longtime Democrat, he said he probably was not likely to, either.
Hillary Clinton received a standing ovation after she told the crowd “I’m proud to be your ally”.
“What individuals say issues, however what they do issues extra”, Clinton stated. “This should be a guiding principle”.
Clinton – and her campaign aides who see the pathway to electoral victory through the Obama coalition – have made reaching out to African American voters an integral part of the campaign.
But only success in next year’s primaries and caucuses can validate those efforts and ease underlying concerns about her candidacy. In his speech this morning, Bush acknowledged that One Florida was “controversial” but said that it “played a useful role” in the state. “For them ideology trumps evidence, and so they remain incapable of moving us forward”. “Why do we have these entitled families?”
Bush added there “ought to be some consideration of… expanding cameras (and) certainly more training”, but he also argued there needs “to be a recognition that being a police officer is a unsafe job”. “And they get it right a lot of times, too”. Structural poverty, racial inequalities and education were among the subjects discussed.
Democrats have accused Republicans of seeking to roll back the Voting Rights Act, which sought to ensure blacks have equal rights to vote.
Quick note: please let me know in the comments section, why is Bush a Republican?
In his first run for governor in 1994, Bush campaigned as a self-described “head-banging conservative” who said he’d do “probably nothing” for African Americans, explaining he instead wanted “equality of opportunity” for all people.
It’s a lesson from Bush’s time running for office in Florida that he’s now applying to his race for president.
Bush himself, who took the stage on the Higher Fort Lauderdale-Broward County Conference Middle about an hour after Clinton, ignored what she had stated about him.
It was a direct shot at bush and his Right to Rise political action committee. “And a child is not rising if he’s not reading”.
Bush made a vague nod to racial profiling and distrust of law enforcement by the black community. Bush is in third place at 12.5 percent.
The report also shows the Bush camp’s taste for the luxe and exclusive, with payments to the likes of the Four Seasons Palo Alto, the St. Regis in Atlanta and Houston, the Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles, the Mandarin Oriental in San Francisco and the Union League of Philadelphia.
This is the mixed messaging that Clinton took aim at on stage today.
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In a poke at Democratic policies, Bush said that “for a half a century, this nation has pursued a War on Poverty and massive government programs, funded with trillions of taxpayer dollars”.
