Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is coming to the First Coast Wednesday evening. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a Grassroots Organizing Event at the Meadow Woods Recreation Center in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. You and I would call it a fundraiser.
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The poll found that not only are candidates such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio – home state favorites who many believe have the best chance of neutralizing Clinton’s strengths with minorities, women and other key demographics – beating Clinton right now, but so are outsiders such as Trump and Ben Carson.
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“We have to extend our commitment to building and maintaining our infrastructure because it is a competitive necessity”, she said.
That’s precisely why the 2016 presidential hopeful has rolled out with her plans to empower all Americans with faster broadband connections, as part of her five-year, $275 billion infrastructure blueprint.
Clinton’s visit to Tampa is a total contrast to Donald Trump’s stop in Sarasota on Saturday.
Orlando has the second largest Puerto Rican population in the mainland United States, and as Clinton tries to moblize the Latino vote, she also emphasized her support for Puerto Rican statehood.
“Down in Miami, we already are seeing streets that flood at high tide on sunny days”, she said. That means that roughly 240,000 women have given to her, but Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign says that it has drawn more than 300,000 female donors, according to a report last week in the Washington Post. Clinton’s emphasis this month on jobs, and infrastructure in particular, is a move to woo working-class voters, who will be critical to winning the general election.
Clinton has witnessed the decline of her honesty and favorability scores since controversy broke surrounding her exclusive use of a private email system while at the State Department, a matter that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating since the intelligence community inspector general concluded that emails contained on Clinton’s system contained classified information at the time they were sent.
Amanda Rios, 17, skipped class to come to Clinton’s event with her father, Domingo Rios.
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Other members of Clinton’s Kansas leadership team include former state Democratic Party chairwoman Joan Wagnon, State Rep. Carolyn Bridges of Wichita, and Steven Wright, chair of the Kansas Democratic Party’s African American Caucus.
