PHILADELPHIA-Democratic Senate hopeful Katie McGinty called Republican Sen.
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McGinty called Toomey an “asshole” during a news conference.
“She talked about increasing the minimum wage for all Pennsylvanians, but did not mention specific numbers”. Pat Toomey in November, will speak around 6 p.m.as part of the line-up leading to Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech.
Pennsylvania’s 2016 U.S. Senate race is expected to be one of the most hotly contested – and important – in the country during the general election.
Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, who is both McGinty’s campaign chairman and chairman of the DNC host committee, has said that “you don’t have to demonize your opponent”.
“I am thrilled about the opportunity to show the city off”, McGinty said, adding that the city will lend Democrats “a terrific opportunity for us to showcase some of the solutions to the challenges that we have”.
Acknowledging the populist vein that Trump, a Manhattan real estate billionaire, has tapped this campaign season, McGinty decried rising CEO compensation that she said is now 300 times greater than that of the average employee. But she plans to say that years of economic change has benefitted the elite, leaving ordinary people behind. “He’s an a-hole”, she said of the Republican senator she’s running to replace.
“That’s the choice of Donald Trump, my opponent, Pat Toomey, and the whole Republican gang: Blame the Mexicans”.
Toomey’s campaign said ahead of McGinty’s speech she supports policies that have increased health care costs and would boost taxes for middle-class families.
It’s also a marked contrast with Toomey.
Toomey has been wary of Trump and did not attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week.
The ad then jumps to McGinty at a Communications Workers for America event, saying “I think I might borrow from Chris’ speech there, in terms of Pat Toomey”.
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That’s was Bernie Sanders’s message to Utah delegates this morning, 36 hours after Hillary Clinton’s nomination officially ended his presidential campaign.
