Clinton was attending an event in the town of Derry, where she was going to unveil her campaign’s plan to support military veterans and their families.
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During her remarks, Clinton said she would defend Environmental Protection Agency final rules to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, but she also said she would pursue a transition fund for communities harmed by the downturn in the coal industry.
At a Hillary Clinton veterans’ roundtable in New Hampshire, a man who identified himself as a laid- off Hewlett-Packard employee declared that he wants to “reach through” and strangle Carly Fiorina when he sees her on TV.
The former secretary of state is backed by 52 percent of Democratic primary voters, while Sanders receives support from 33 percent, The NY Times reported, based on the survey it conducted in collaboration with CBS News. When asked which Democratic candidates would do a good job addressing the concerns of African-Americans, 75% of blacks said Clinton would, while only 40% said the same for Sanders.
Clinton felt that the US was not aware fully of the potential cost of a war like this and said, “I’m not sure that makes sense in fighting a threat that is as diffused and networked as this threat is”, reports The Columbian.
The Democrat’s response to the man drew rebukes from the team behind Fiorina-the only major female candidate in her party’s field-and the Republican National Committee.
“As we work to improve the VA I will work as long and hard as it takes to prevent Republicans from privatizing it and part of a misguided, ideological crusade”, Clinton said.
“We need to reform the VA”, Clinton said last month at an event in New Hampshire.
MARK HALPERIN: I think she’s exactly right regarding the media double standard on that point.
Republicans, led by Arizona Sen.
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“We’ve seen how they try to seize on anything they can do to advance this goal of theirs which will throw our vets into the private insurance market”, she added. The scandal led to the resignation of then-VA secretary Eric Shinseki.
