Hillary Clinton touts economic plan, bashes Trump in Nashville
Source: the tennessean
Joey Garrison and Dave Boucher, dboucher@tennessean.com 11:13 a.m. CST November 21, 2015
Hillary Clinton energized her Nashville troops Friday evening with a speech that played to the full spectrum of Democratic constituencies, making pitches to raise the minimum wage, combat climate change, pursue gun control and fight for equal pay for women.
The Democratic presidential primary frontrunner spoke for about 30 minutes in a packed old gymnasium at Fisk University, a historically black college in North Nashville. More than 1,000 people cheered her on — and hundreds more were unable to get inside because of space limitations — as Clinton implored them to send her to the White House.
At one point, the former U.S. secretary of state called out what she described as “inflammatory rhetoric” coming from Republican candidates ............
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“We’ve had such extraordinary success,” she said. “And here Mr. Trump has attacked Mexican immigrants. He’s attacked women. And now he’s attacking Muslim Americans. At some point you have to ask yourself, 'Is that the kind of country we are?' We’re smarter than that.”
The trip marked Clinton's first campaign swing through Tennessee: she also made a stop in Memphis earlier in the day. It’s a state that she easily carried in 2008 in the Democratic primary against then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama. And it’s also a state that is part of her campaign’s plan to create a “political firewall across the South” to clinch the Democratic nomination in 2016.
.......................On Friday, Hillary Clinton hit all the high points Democrats look for and the issues that make her highly unpopular with Republicans. She opened up with remarks on the economy that sought to appeal to the middle and working classes................
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That's our gal--working for every vote--taking nothing for granted.
2016 Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Henderson Gymnasium on the Fisk University campus Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 in Nashville. Samuel M. Simpkins / The Tennessean
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