Sanders backs a number of plans – specifically on equal pay and health care – that would increase taxes on all households, not just top earners like Clinton has proposed.
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Clinton was holding a rally Tuesday in Dallas.
Clinton’s opponent Rick Lazio raised even more from Wall Street, but it’s still a stretch for her to imply that Wall Street only got cozy with her after 9/11, as she implied during Saturday night’s debate.
After struggling during the summer, Clinton’s campaign has built a large lead over Sanders in national polls and has an edge in Iowa, the home of the first presidential caucus.
“Bernie is proud to have the grassroots support of tens of thousands of working families in AFSCME and other unions”, Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs said in response to Clinton’s endorsement last month.
Clinton came to Dallas for her community college event and a fundraiser hosted by Regina Montoya, senior vice president of Children’s Medical Center, and Paul Coggins, former United States attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Clinton supports 12 weeks of paid leave but has not yet indicated how she would pay for her plan. “She should tell the American people how she’d actually pay for it”, O’Malley said on Twitter.
U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday won the endorsement of the two-million-member SEIU labor union as she seeks her party’s nomination for the November 2016 election.
“SEIU members and working families across America are part of a growing movement to build a better future for their families, and Hillary Clinton will support and stand with the”, said SEIU global President Mary Kay Henry.
The nation’s largest health care union represents about 2 million nurses, health care workers and other caregivers and is among the most ethnically diverse unions in the country.
The endorsement of the Service Employees global Union gives momentum to Clinton’s bid to woo labor, a key Democratic constituency, and avert a damaging primary fight.
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Clinton’s campaign also announced she will deliver a national security speech in NY on Thursday, outlining her strategy to defeat the Islamic State group and combat radical jihadism more broadly.
