Hillary Clinton’s campaign swung through Dover, New Hampshire on Thursday evening, holding a town hall with a cozy, but full crowd inside a downtown gymnasium.
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“I don’t believe we can stop every incident of gun violence but we sure can stop a lot of them…”
As details of the attack became clearer Thursday, including the size of an arsenal of weapons stockpiled by the couple who opened fire in the center, Clinton said, “It’s becoming clearer that we are dealing with an act of terrorism”.
(Sean Gallup/Getty Images)Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez, who has develop into one of President Obama’s top emissaries to liberal, toil & Latino constituencies, is backing Hillary Clinton for president & plans to hit the marketing crusade path on her behalf.
Today she pressed Congress to pass legislation prohibiting individuals on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s no-fly terror list from purchasing guns.
At a campaign event Friday in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Clinton said Emanuel “loves Chicago and I’m confident he’s going to do everything he can to get to the bottom of these issues and take whatever measures are necessary to remedy them”.
Further, he maintained that the emails show Clinton “trafficked in fantastical conspiracy theories” suggesting that American conservatives and Israel were to blame for the Benghazi attack and jihadist violence.
In the new poll with the slimmed-down field, Clinton posts leads among each of those groups, topping Sanders 48% to 39% among those under age 55, 52% to 42% among liberals, and 48% to 40% among independents who lean toward the Democratic Party.
Fifty percent of Democrats support Clinton, the former secretary of state, while 36 percent support Sanders, according to a five-day rolling poll from Reuters/Ipsos dated Tuesday. Clinton says that is comparable to what she is seeing nationally.
“If you are too risky to fly in America, you are too unsafe to buy a gun”.
“I’m not shouting. It’s just that when women talk, some people think we’re shouting”, she said in an oft-repeated line through the end of October.
Although she has rebounded from a September slump that had her at just 44 percent support, Clinton has yet to stem the meteoric rise of her rival, an independent senator from Vermont whose policies and principles have been consistent since he marched on Washington for jobs and justice with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Law enforcement officers search for the suspects of a mass shooting December 2, 2015, in San Bernardino, California.
“We can pray all we want”, she said.
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Emanuel himself did not come out in support of the Justice Department investigation until Thursday.
