For Clinton, email no longer a joking matter

My use of personal email was allowed by the State Department.

“I think he has to make what is a very hard decision for himself and his family and he should have the space and the opportunity to decide what he wants to do”, Clinton said.

Clinton says her plans for affordable college tuition and more access to health care would benefit rural communities.

“We’ve got to do something about gun violence in America, and I will take it on”, she declared Wednesday at an event in Iowa.

Contrary to the Clinton camp’s assertion that the controversy is a lot of “nonsense”, federal computer security is no joke.

In Nevada earlier this month, for example, Clinton said her email use was normal.

“The email issue is affecting her campaign”, said Nancy Jacobson, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Orlando, Fla. A recent Quinnipiac University poll of voters in three large swing states, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, found that only 1 in 3 regards Clinton as “honest and trustworthy” – compared with over half for Jeb Bush.

Clinton also applied slippery spin when she said she’s looking forward to October when she testifies before Congress about her personal email account and private server. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), a Democratic challenger, has eroded Clinton’s lead in Iowa to less comfortable margins. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed reducing the required volume of renewable fuels in U.S. gasoline. The issue is critically important to Iowa, the top corn-producing state in the nation.

After campaign visits in Ankeny and Sioux City, the former Secretary of State’s visit to Tabor Home Vineyards & Winery in Jackson County was peppered with the call to strengthen rural America with the common themes of infrastructure, renewable energy and manufacturing.

Clinton appears to be the only presidential candidate so far who has addressed the shooting from a policy perspective. In a 2002 debate over an energy bill, Clinton derided a then-pending requirement that two billion gallons of corn ethanol be blended into domestic gasoline per year. “This is a woman who will listen to us, who will fight for us”, said Vilsack. “What a sweetheart deal”. “This was something that Secretary Clinton and I talked about some time ago”, he said. Clinton has denied she sent or received classified emails that were marked as such at the time. I will take it on.

Iowa is set to hold the first party nominating contest ahead of the general election in November 2016.