“My opponent in this race might have a different view, but there’s nowhere I’d rather be than right here with all of you”, she said about Trump, now in Cleveland at the other end of OH for the Republican National Convention. “Donald Trump wants to be president for all of us”, Baio said.
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Clinton said she would start working on criminal justice reform “on day one and every day after that”. “Hillary Clinton for prison!”
The former USA secretary of state used much of her speech to call for criminal justice reform, an end to systemic racism and to denounce the killing of police officers as totally unjustified.
“It was one of the largest federal cases of its kind at the time, and when federal investigators spoke with Trump’s employees, they said they were instructed to mark rental applications from black people with a “C” for ‘colored'”.
Clinton’s appearance at the NAACP falls on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
As part of its coverage of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, the USA TODAY NETWORK has tapped into the power of its local properties to give national readers a clear snapshot of the voters behind Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Democrats accuse Republicans of exploiting the tragedy for political reasons and note that the Benghazi panel has spent more than two years and $7 million investigating the attacks.
She said there is a cavernous divide steeped with distrust and anger between the police and many African-American communities.
“For all of this loss, for all of this grief, for all of the cynicism the tragedy in Benghazi has wrought upon America, I blame Hillary Clinton”, she said.
“Hillary Clinton’s platitudes on gun control and public safety will not ensure an America in which both civilians and law enforcement can feel safe in their own neighborhoods”. “I think it was wrong, I don’t care what that woman up there – the mother – has felt”. How could she do this to me?
Clinton says the deaths show that things need to change.
Clinton even went into detail to explain how she is detail-oriented. “But that dream never came to fruition”, Chris Wyant, Hillary for OH state director, said.
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Though Clinton said her “heart broke” as she watched the news of the latest police killings in Baton Rouge, she told the thousands gathered for the NAACP National Convention that “this madness has to stop” where police officers and African-Americans are being killed.
