For those who would be president, a visit to the Iowa State Fair may be the purest distillation of the campaign experience in the state that starts the voting in the race for the White House. Carl Cameron is there, and Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush speaks today. After his speech, hounded by a few reporters, he refused to comment on Hillary Clinton’s ongoing email scandal, or the rumors of a Joe Biden presidential bid stoked by friends of the vice president. I know Hillary Clinton will be that champion.
Advertisement
Webb, a former U.S. senator from Virginia, decried the role of big money in politics, urging listeners to change the system by electing him.
“How do you think that makes me feel?”
“Paying for college is driving more and more people farther from their dreams”, Clinton said in Dubuque. “So I don’t care how many super PACs and Republicans pile on. I’ve been fighting for families and underdogs my entire life, and I’m not going to stop now”, Clinton added. Her appearance came days after she agreed to turn over to the FBI the private server she used as secretary of state. Her name is shielded in all but one email.
The Clinton staffer said her campaign will release additional details on the trip at a later time, the Journal-Sentinel added. He spent special time attacking “bad trade deals”, a commonality with Webb and Sanders – something Hillary Clinton could not agree with unless she flip-flopped.
I have had the privilege of knowing Hillary Clinton for a long time.
Her leading competitor for the Democratic nomination, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee.
The candidates spoke before about 2,000 Democrats at the Surf Ballroom, the site of the last concert by rock pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper before their fatal 1959 plane crash, later dubbed “The Day the Music Died”.
Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, told FoxNews.com that candidates who remain positive and avoid controversy woiuld make the most impact with voters at the event.
The event will be particularly crucial for Sanders, who has surged into first place in some New Hampshire polls but is lagging Clinton in Iowa.
He also trained his fire at Republicans, accusing them of being “hell-bent to get us into other wars”.
O’Malley was the third Democrat to take the stage. Education Week named Maryland the top state for education five years in a row during O’Malley’s term as governor, he said, while listing off a host of other accomplishments.
His refrain: “Action, not words”.
Advertisement
“Between me and Ryan Keller, we’ve got enough political hacks”, Laudner said with a laugh, referring to Trump’s deputy Iowa director. The emails do not indicate whether she called him back.
