Today, Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted the first Town Hall conversation of her presidential campaign. The even took place in Dover, New Hampshire, where she outlined her key points of her platform in a brief speech, then took questions from the audience. Clinton answered questions on a number of topics including the recent nuclear agreement with Iran, banning use of fossil fuels and fracking, telemarketers, and her plan to offer tax incentives to businesses that share their profits with employees. The event lasted about an hour and a half and can be watched in full on C-SPAN.
Clinton’s campaign is still in the beginning stages with major speeches outlining her platform continuing to take place. She is expected to begin hosting larger town hall events like the one held today in the coming months.
Tomorrow, Clinton is scheduled to make her fourth trip to Iowa. Until then, follow Clinton on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for all the latest updates.
In a speech today in New York City, Hillary Rodham Clinton gave the first economic speech of her presidential campaign. She spoke about a number of topics including: raising wages for the middle class, reigning in Wall Street bankers, and creating a stronger economy for everyone. Clinton’s can best be outlined in three categories:
Strong Growth. Growing the economy by expanding employment opportunities, tax relief for small businesses and middle class Americans, comprehensive immigration reform, investing in clean energy, increase funding for scientific and medial research, establish an infrastructure bank, and make college more affordable. She also called for equal pay for women, affordable health care, paid sick and family leave, and affordable child care.
Fair Growth. Clinton’s strongest argument was that if you work hard, you have a right to expect something in return. She called for raising the minimum wage, reduce health care costs, supporting labor unions, tax reform, expanding early childhood learning, and encouraging businesses to share their profits with employees.
Long-Term Growth. In the long term, she called for reforming the capital gains tax, increasing benefits and training for workers, focusing on long term investments, imposing stricter accountability for Wall Street, and planning for the future.
In addition to outlining her her economic plan, Clinton criticized her Republican rivals for the failed trickle down economics strategy saying, “For 35 years, Republicans have argued that if we give more wealth to those at the top by cutting their taxes and letting big corporations write their own rules, it will trickle down — it will trickle down to everyone else.”
Today’s speech, held at The New School, was the result of several hundred meetings between Clinton’s team and economic advisers, including Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. Clinton’s speech was applauded by many Democrats and liberals as many of her policies appear to have been inspired by Senator Elizabeth Warren, someone who has been pushed to run for president by many. Senator Warren and Clinton have met and discussed economic policy.
A video of the full video of the speech is above. You may also read the full transcript by CLICKING HERE.
6/13 UPDATE: A full transcript of the speech is available from Time by CLICKING HERE.
In her first official campaign rally held at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island in New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined what she called the “four fights” of her campaign. Throughout the 45 minute speech, Clinton made references to her experience as a lawyer, Senator, Secretary of State, and as a mother and grandmother. The theme of the speech was the prosperity of Americans, and she shared stories from people she has met and her mother to make her points. In her speech, Clinton also criticized Republicans for not looking forward and believing too much in “yesterday.” She vowed to fight for everyday Americans and prepare the United States for the future.
The key to her speech was the “four fights.” She outlined what those will be, but said that said will outline specific policy changes in the coming weeks. Nevertheless, her vision is clearly outlined by the four fights:
Economy: Clinton outlined a number of changes that would serve to strengthen the economy including strengthening the middle class, increasing the minimum wage, providing equal pay for women, making it illegal to discriminate against LBGT workers, rewriting the tax code, and focusing on lifelong learning that will allow works to adapt to a changing workplace. She also called for more affordable college for everyone and improving the infrastructure by creating an infrastructure bank that would sell bonds to help fund improvements roads, bridges, power grids, and broadband Internet. She called for protecting the environment by investing in clean energy and ending the denial of climate change. All these changes, which she will continue to outline in the coming weeks, will create jobs and improve the lives of American workers.
Family: Families have struggled since the recession and Clinton believes that more attention needs to be paid to helping families by guaranteeing paid sick days, paid family leave, pre-school and child care. She also wants to focus on the uneven incarceration polices and provide help to those suffering with mental health issues and addiction.
America’s Leadership: America has long been the leader in the world, but for America to maintain its leadership and influence, Clinton argues that we have not only show strength in our military, but we have to create economic and diplomatic partnerships across the globe. At the same time, we have to stand up to our adversaries and stand by our allies. We need to be better prepared against cyber attacks and provide better services to our veterans after they have served our country.
Governmental Reform: Clinton argued that now is the time to take government out of corporate hands and back into the hands of Americans. She called for stopping the flow of unaccountable campaign funds, undoing Citizens United, and improving government technology so it is more open to the pubic. She also called for improvements to voting including universal registration, longer early voting periods, and ensuring that voting rights are protected despite the Supreme Court’s recent decision.
Clinton’s speech is only the beginning of the next phase of her campaign. Over the coming weeks, Clinton will travel across the country to spread her message and continue to flesh out her campaign platform. We will follow along and continue to cover her campaign events as she continues to build a strong platform for America’s future.
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6/13 – UPDATE: The live stream has ended. The video will be posted HERE once available.
6/13 – UPDATE: Live streaming will begin at 11:45 AM Eastern Time. You can access the live stream by CLICKING HERE.
Hillary for America announced today that a kickoff rally will be held on Roosevelt Island, New York on Saturday, June 13. Hillary Rodham Clinton will use the event to layout key parts of her campaign’s platform and her vision for America. For the last several weeks, Clinton has been holding roundtable events in key states to gather information to assist in building her campaign platform. The campaign has indicated that these events will continue after the rally on June 13 as the campaign continues to ramp up. After the rally, Clinton will makes campaign stops in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, states she has already visited since announcing her presidential campaign.
The campaign announced that the event will be free, but space is limited and it is first come, first served. Keep up with all the latest campaign news by following Clinton on Twitter and Facebook.
Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to New Hampshire on Friday. In her second trip to the state since announcing her presidential campaign, she, again, focused on visiting with small business owners. Stopping in Exeter and Derry she visited with small business owners and toured a brewery, book store, and ice cream shop. Clinton held a roundtable with small business owners at the Smuttynose Brewery. She concluded her trip by holding a private visit with supporters in Amherst.
Clinton’s visit to New Hampshire was overshadowed by the State Department’s release of 900 pages of Clinton’s emails related to the attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. She took a few questions from reporters and was asked about the emails’ release. Clinton responded by saying, ““First of all, I’m glad that the emails are starting to come out. This is something that I’ve asked to be done for a long time, and those releases are beginning. I want people to be able to see all of them, and it is a fact that we have released all of them that have any government relationship whatsoever. In fact, the State Department had the vast majority of those, anyway, because they were sent to ‘dot-gov’ accounts.” You can see the emails that were released by clicking here.
Next week, Clinton heads to South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Keep up to date with all the latest campaign stops by following Clinton on Twitter and Facebook. And don’t forget to donate to the campaign.
Next week, Hillary Rodham Clinton takes her presidential campaign to Nevada and California. On Tuesday, May 5 Clinton will take her “Ramp Up” campaign to Nevada where she is expected to visit several cities. Nevada is a state that Clinton’s team is hoping to win in 2016 and it has been an early focus on the campaign. You can follow Hillary for Nevada on Twitter and Facebook.
Later in the week (May 7-9) Clinton will begin a three day campaign trip in California where she will headline several high profile fundraisers in Hollywood. She is also expected to focus on the grassroots effort similar to her recent trips to Iowa and New Hampshire.
We will post a full wrap-up of both next week. In the meantime, keep up to date with all the latest campaign news by following Clinton on Twitter and Facebook. And don’t forget to donate to the campaign.
Hillary Rodham Clinton gave would could be her final speech for awhile as she is expected announce her presidential campaign in a few weeks. Speaking for the American Camp Association of New York and New Jersey, Clinton said that she thinks that America has a “fun deficit” and joked that she thinks there should be camps for adults. She recalled events from her past and spent some time talking about her future. She hinted that her future could include reaching across party lines to come to compromise. She criticized the current political environment saying, “If you don’t build relationships with people and all you do is show up to argue or show up to point fingers, you can’t get anything done.”
A video from the event will be posted when/if available.
Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to Iowa for the first time since her presidential campaign in 2008. She, along with husband Bill Clinton, attended the final steak fry being held by outgoing Senator Tom Harkin. Clinton spoke briefly at the event thanking Senator Harkin for his decades of public service. The question on everyone’s mind was Clinton’s decision to run for president in 2016. She responded by saying, “Well, it is true … I am thinking about it. But, for today that is not why I’m here. I’m here for the steak.”
The video above is incomplete. A video of her full speech will be posted when/if available.
Today, Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted the first Town Hall conversation of her presidential campaign. The even took place in Dover, New Hampshire, where she outlined her key points of her platform in a brief speech, then took questions from the audience. Clinton answered questions on a number of topics including the recent nuclear agreement with Iran, banning use of fossil fuels and fracking, telemarketers, and her plan to offer tax incentives to businesses that share their profits with employees. The event lasted about an hour and a half and can be watched in full on C-SPAN.
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