Presidential hopefuls in Fort Lauderdale on Friday for Urban League conference
In a biting pre-emptive attack delivered as Bush, the former Florida governor, waited backstage at the annual convention of the National Urban League, Clinton portrayed him as a hypocrite who had set back the cause of black Americans.
She also took aim at Jeb Bush’s slogan: The right to rise. It is whether our positions live up to our rhetoric and too often we see a mismatch between what some candidates say in venues like this and what they actually do when they are elected. “People can’t rise if they can’t afford health care. So yes, what people say matters, but what they do matters more“, she said. “And you can not seriously talk about the right to rise, and support laws that deny the right to vote”, she continued.
That last line, alluding to some of Bush’s policies as Florida governor, prompted a round of enthusiastic applause.
“What people say matters, but what they do matters more”, Clinton said.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton appears to be making progress toward regaining control of her campaign after three months in which questions about the past have sometimes overshadowed her focus on the future. He targeted on doing what he has challenged all Republicans do: marketing campaign to voters who virtually all the time forged ballots for Democrats. “Some we can see, others are unseen but just as real”. So many lives can come to nothing, or come to grief, once we ignore issues, or fail to satisfy our personal duties. “For too long we’ve been blind to the way past injustices continue to shape the present”, he said.
“I acted on that perception as governor of Florida. It’s a record I’ll gladly compare with that of anyone else in the field”. He said that as Florida governor, he ordered the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol, raised the number of black judges and tripled the state’s hiring of minority-owned businesses.
Republicans said the financial disclosures aren’t almost as important to voters as her lack of transparency on another batch of files: Her emails from her time as secretary of State.
Bush made a nod to racial profiling and mistrust of regulation enforcement by the black group.
Clinton did not refer to any other Republican candidates specifically, and her criticisms found a generally receptive audience among the predominantly black attendees.
Clinton also lamented the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Sandra Bland and ticked off statistics on African Americans receiving disproportionately longer sentences than whites. “I was not impressed with Jeb Bush at all”, she said.
Her first speech as a candidate was on police reform, where she called for mandatory police body cameras across the nation. “Absolutely, 100 percent: It’s time for a woman”, said conference attendee Dawn Thurston.
“We’re keeping up a family tradition as well”, she said.
While Right to Rise’s total haul dwarfs those of PACs supporting other Republican candidates, its receipts also show that, at least within the Washington area, Bush is far ahead of any of his rivals. Bernie Sanders in the early contest states of Iowa and New Hampshire. He decried rich elites, notably billionaires’ potential to write down multimillion-dollar checks to political campaigns. “I was impressed”, he said. “That is oligarchy”.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley were both up against their own missteps – each used the phrase “all lives matter” early in their campaigns, to the affront of those they were trying to court.
Some of the big names among Republicans and Democrats presidential candidates are all sharing one stage this week in Florida.
He confronted racism, stated Carson, however he attributed it to ignorance – and concluded with a bit of life recommendation from his years as a neurosurgeon.
“Hillary understands the message and evoked the level of passion and commitment to the topic at hand and O’Malley definitely spoke to his record and what he was able to do in Baltimore, but there was nothing really engaging”, Kalima said.