In the Iowa City Public Library today, Hillary Clinton began laying out the positions that she will focus on during her campaign for the Presidency. Among the highlights were her strong denouncement of trickle down economics, her staunch support for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and her uncompromising stance on the NRA.
Hillary squarely laid the blame for the nation's economic problems, particularly income inequality to the policies pursued by Republican presidents and flatly stated that trickle-down economics needs to be "buried six feet under".
"There seems to be a pattern here, and we cannot afford to go back to the failed economic policies of the past," she said. "We have to be committed to electing a Democrat who will build on what works with actual evidence ... so that we build shared prosperity that everybody benefits from."
She also took on the Republican Party presidential field who fight against allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in this country.
"I don't care how many people running for president on the Republican side try to demean immigrants, insult immigrants, cast aspersions on immigrants," Clinton said. "We are not going to deport 11 or 12 million people."
Obviously, Donald Trump's recent racist remarks would have been a likely target for Hillary, but she also went on in a CNN interview to call out Republicans running for President who have refused to denounce Trumps remarks.
In that interview, she also tied the Republican field to Trump's remarks, stating that all the Republican candidates are in basic agreement with Trump, and specifically called out Jeb Bush, stating that he does not believe in a pathway to citizenship.
“He doesn’t believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does,” Clinton said. “And so pretty much they’re — as I said, they’re on a spectrum of, you know, hostility, which I think is really regrettable in a nation of immigrants like ours.”
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Another highlight from the event in Iowa was her uncompromising stance on the NRA, stating that Democrats shouldn't be afraid to take on the NRA specifically because they do not represent the views of the vast majority of gun owners.
"I think it's pretty clear that a majority of Americans and a majority of gun owners agree with universal background checks" to keep guns away from domestic abusers, the mentally unstable, "and even terrorists," Clinton said.
"Let's not be afraid of the gun lobby, which does not represent the real majority of gun owners in America," she added.
The Clinton campaign also announced
hiring of 20 additional field organizers to its large Iowa staff. The campaign now has 47 paid staff members in Iowa and over 100 volunteer organizing fellows. Hillary's Iowa state director, Matt Paul, knows Hillary can't afford to take anything for granted and the campaign has already recruited at
least one committed caucusgoer for every precinct in Iowa.
"As we've said from the beginning," Paul said, "we are taking nothing for granted in the caucus and these organizers will increase our campaign's ability to work with supporters in every neighborhood and precinct to get the word out about Hillary Clinton's campaign to fight for everyday Americans."
EDIT: Here's the
direct quote of Hillary calling for trickle-down economics to be buried six-feet under.
Clinton blamed Republican presidents for the recent economic crises in the U.S., and said that trickle-down economics needs to be "buried six feet under."