Detroit – Hillary Clinton said Monday that Donald Trump’s economic policies would lead to lower wages, fewer jobs and more debt — warning unionized workers that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee could “bankrupt America like he’s bankrupted his companies.”
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
“Ask yourself,” the likely Democratic nominee told thousands at the Service Employees International Union international convention in Detroit, “how can anybody lose money running a casino, really?”
Trump has accused Clinton of using the “the woman’s card” to win votes. Clinton said if fighting for equal pay, paid family leave, a higher minimum wage and affordable child care is “playing the woman card, then deal me in.”
Trump’s call for the deportation of millions of people living in the U.S. illegally and the end of automatic birthright citizenship also drew Clinton’s ire. She criticized sending a “deportation force” to schools, workplaces and homes to “round up moms, dads, grandparents — even children.”
“He’s talking about kicking children who are born here out of the only country they know,” Clinton said.
The union endorsed Hillary in November. She thanked its members — who include child care workers, home health aides, janitors and others — and called them “unsung heroes” who deserve a living wage.
She said there has never been more at stake for working families than in the 2016 election, noting that she supports raising the federal minimum wage and protecting the right to organize.
“Your fights are my fights,” she said.
Clinton, pointing to the nearing end of the Democratic primary, applauded Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters for “challenging us.”
“We are going to get unaccountable money out of politics” and take on income inequality,” she said to loud applause. “And we are going to unify the Democratic Party and stop Donald Trump. There is so much more that unites than divides us.”
Meanwhile, at a rally in East Los Angeles, Calif., on Monday afternoon, Sanders predicted he would win California’s June 7 primary — the nation’s largest with 475 delegates — through the strength of his rallies across the state. He said that by the end of the state’s primary he will have spoken to more than 200,000 people at his rallies.
“It is a grassroots campaign, not a fancy campaign,” Sanders said.
The Vermont senator has pushed for the party to adopt a progressive platform at the Philadelphia convention in July. The Democratic National Committee announced a 15-member platform drafting committee, the first step in that process, which will put together the first draft of platform.
The panel will be led by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who endorsed Clinton, and include Sanders’ allies such as Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., civil rights leader Dr. Cornel West and environmental activist Bill McKibben.
Or just like all the Politicians !!!!!
Nice try, Hilary! Your desperation is showing! No one can blame you though for being terrified of Trump, after all, you’re a criminal, liar, immoral shrew who covered for a known abuser, just for the sake of furthering your own career. You took many millions from Wall Street and now refuse to lease transcripts of your speeches (promises) to them…. Keep trying to scare off Trump’s fans, it only makes us love him more!
Sounds like a Clinton press release.
Of course that’s what the AP really is.
“Clinton said if fighting for equal pay, paid family leave, a higher minimum wage and affordable child care is “playing the woman card, then deal me in.”
She doesn’t really care about those stuff. She is just pandering to voters. She never sincerely cared about women. Look at the all the women whom her husband abused and she protected. To be fair neither does Trump care. But I believe they are on equal footing. I don’t think one cares more than other. Now you must ask yourself even if you are a women who is a smarter person.
“Could ‘bankrupt America’
“Could “?!
Hey, I have news for you –
America is ALREADY ‘bankrupt, based on the debt, any business should have called it bankrupt.
What of all the money that the Clintons got for selling the White House Lincoln Bedroom, the millions of foreign contributions for the Clinton Family Charity (that goes to the Clinton family)? I wonder what influence and favors from the Clintons the contributions were “buying”? The Clintons made money from their official positions and abused their public trust; Trump was a businessman whose business sometimes did well and sometimes did poorly, as do all businesses.
What a joke
Obama has added more debt than all previous presidents combined and she has said she will continue his policies.
She is a real piece of work
Yea, bankrupt.
Just like the Clintons were when they left the White House.
Nothing left to bankrupt after Obama’s 14 trillion dollars of debt.
Tell me, how does he run such a powerful country and still incur such debt….
Riiiiight. ‘Cuz the democrats run balanced budgets that put money back in America’s coffers. Oops; I mean Africa’s coffers.
Yidden should vote for Trump. I have information from a reliable source close to Donald that he will choose as his vice-presidental candidate Avigdor Liberman. Apparently Liberman was born in Hawaii and they are now arranging for his birth certificate to be made public.