Clinton campaigns with mothers of gun violence victims

In a speech, Geneva Reed-Veal said: “I’ve watched and followed her career and I saw her take the hits”.

Clinton also talked up her own Chicago connections, reminding the crowd she was born in the city and raised in its suburbs.

She’s in town to rally support among minority voters and raise money.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will campaign in Chicago Wednesday with the mother of the Chicago-area woman who allegedly hanged herself inside a Texas jail cell past year.

“This is material for some kind of sitcom”, Clinton said. The governor has a “Republican agenda to turn back the clock”, she said.

A recent CNN/ORC poll shows Clinton holding a commanding lead – 65% to 28% – among black voters in SC.

This time around, a scathing critique in The Nation by Michelle Alexander, one of the leading voices on the criminalization of black men and the author of the “New Jim Crow”, could further tamp down Clinton’s support among young black voters. “It is definitely an honor to have her on the South Side”.

“The fact he is not here today I don’t think that’s anything other than he’s so focused on Chicago issues”, Davis said. Clinton hopes to motivate residents to vote during the March 15th primary.

By that time, he added, her campaign would be pointed toward the November general election, and her early struggles in Iowa and New Hampshire would be “swept away”.

The appearance with Reed-Veal in Chicago came the day after she delivered a major address in NY on combating issues related to racial injustice in the country, and as she seeks to boost her sizable advantage over Sanders for the black vote.

Clinton said she doesn’t believe Obama has gotten the credit he deserves for bringing the USA out of the worst economic crisis in decades, passing his signature health care bill and tough new regulations on Wall Street, and saving the auto industry from collapse.

Clinton also criticized Bernie Sanders for calling President Obama weak and disappointing.

Notably absent from the event in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood was Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton meets supporters face to face after Wednesday’s appearance at the Parkway Ballroom.