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Hillary Clinton to launch TV ads about working women as Republicans debate
Source: The Guardian
Hillary Clinton to launch TV ads about working women as Republicans debate
Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington
Tuesday 27 October 2015 22.18 GMT
As Republican candidates take the stage on Wednesday night for the next presidential debate, Hillary Clinton will begin airing a series of issue-based television ads featuring working women.
The four ads, each of which centers around a female protagonist, address middle class priorities such as instituting equal pay, expanding college affordability and raising incomes. Clinton provides a voiceover but does not appear directly in the ads, which will air on broadcast and cable in the key early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, according to a Clinton aide.
“On average, women need to work an extra two hours each day to earn the same paycheck as their male co-workers,” Clinton says in one ad.
“The top 25 hedge fund managers make more than all of the kindergarten teachers in America combined,” she notes in another.
The ads offer Clinton a prime opportunity, when millions will be tuning into the third Republican debate, to contrast her candidacy with those of the candidates onstage in Boulder, Colorado. The Republican candidates have uniformly dismissed, for example, equal pay as an issue – a point Clinton often highlights on the campaign trail.
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Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington
Tuesday 27 October 2015 22.18 GMT
As Republican candidates take the stage on Wednesday night for the next presidential debate, Hillary Clinton will begin airing a series of issue-based television ads featuring working women.
The four ads, each of which centers around a female protagonist, address middle class priorities such as instituting equal pay, expanding college affordability and raising incomes. Clinton provides a voiceover but does not appear directly in the ads, which will air on broadcast and cable in the key early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, according to a Clinton aide.
“On average, women need to work an extra two hours each day to earn the same paycheck as their male co-workers,” Clinton says in one ad.
“The top 25 hedge fund managers make more than all of the kindergarten teachers in America combined,” she notes in another.
The ads offer Clinton a prime opportunity, when millions will be tuning into the third Republican debate, to contrast her candidacy with those of the candidates onstage in Boulder, Colorado. The Republican candidates have uniformly dismissed, for example, equal pay as an issue – a point Clinton often highlights on the campaign trail.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/27/hillary-clinton-tv-ads-working-women-republican-debate
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