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WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton next month will become the first woman nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. In November, she could become the first female occupant of the White House, eight years after Americans elected their first black chief executive.
Scores of state workers, carrying signs and chanting "No layoffs,'' held a rally Thursday a few hundred yards away from where the Connecticut Democratic Party held its annual fundraising dinner. The Connecticut AFL-CIO, AFSCME Council 4 union members and their allies with D.U.E Justice - A Coalition for Democracy, Unity, and Equality - and others rallied, sang chants and encouraged passing cars to honk their horns in support outside the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.
Hillary Clinton presented a stark contrast Thursday between what she said are her own extensive qualifications to command American foreign policy and Donald Trump's reckless ignorance about national security. In an afternoon speech here in which she described Trump's ideas as "dangerously incoherent," Clinton offered a sharply worded preview of a general election argument that will frame her as a well-prepared commander in chief and Trump as unfit.
Clinton takes on Trump over U.S. foreign policy U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton will berate Republican Donald Trump for being too friendly with North Korea and too harsh on European allies in a foreign policy speech on Thursday aimed at portraying the billionaire businessman as unfit for the White House. The speech in San Diego comes as the former secretary of state seeks to shift her attention to the Nov. 8 presidential election against likely rival Trump and away from Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont who is continuing his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination.
In a speech in Elkhart, ., on Wednesday, Obama followed Hillary Clinton and bowed to a Bernie Sanders-led movement to expand Social Security. This is only the latest in a series of missed opportunities by the president.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders continued their efforts to court California voters in a final push ahead of next week's primary election. After making what her campaign bills as a "major national security address," in San Diego Thursday, Clinton will head to a get-out-the-vote event in El Centro in Imperial County, and will then hold a meeting with community leaders in Perris in Riverside County.
The speech in San Diego comes as the former secretary of state seeks to shift her attention to the Nov. 8 presidential election against likely rival Trump, and away from Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont who is continuing his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination. Trump has said he would sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program and has criticized the decades-old NATO alliance with mainly European nations as obsolete and too costly for the United States.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has altered her campaign schedule for the next week, saying she will campaign exclusively in California, the largest of six states voting June 7. Clinton scrapped events planned for Thursday in New Jersey, where polls show her with a big lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Polls in the Golden State have shown a tightening race over the last two weeks, though most surveys still show Clinton with a slight lead there.
Though lagging behind Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton by over 200 pledged delegates, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has never been daunted. As the divisive primary season is about to wind up, however, Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, and the roughly one million voters who "feel the Bern" will soon face a tough choice of whether or not to line up behind the very person they has been ripping for months.
Jerry Brown, a strikingly successful and popular governor in his own state of California, whose approach is often held up as a model for Democrats nationally, refused and refused and refused to endorse a candidate during the course of the long race for the party's presidential nomination. Brown, whose three previous bids for the presidency suggested to some that he might harbor an interest in one last run, and whose relations with front-runner Hillary Clinton had not always been good, kept on the sidelines.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a rally before thousands at the Fresno Fairgrounds' Paul Paul Theater on Sunday, May 29. The senator from Vermont was making a campaign swing through the San Joaquin Valley ahead of the June 7 California primary election. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders compares water problems in the Valley with those of Flint, Michigan, during rally in Visalia at Golden West High School.
California Gov. Jerry Brown addresses members of the media before signing a bill creating the highest statewide minimum wage at $15 an hour by 2022 at the Ronald Reagan building in Los Angeles on Monday, April 4, 2016. less California Gov. Jerry Brown addresses members of the media before signing a bill creating the highest statewide minimum wage at $15 an hour by 2022 at the Ronald Reagan building in Los Angeles on Monday, April ... more California Gov. Jerry Brown said on Tuesday he will vote for Hillary Clinton in the state's upcoming primary, explaining she has the best chance of thwarting the "dangerous candidacy" of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The Golden State Warriors advanced to the NBA Finals Sunday with a Game 7 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder, which was attended by Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who spoke at a campaign event earlier in Oakland. Sanders arrived at halftime with actor and political activist Danny Glover and wore a blue Oxford shirt that stood out in a sea of yellow "Strength in Numbers" shirts worn by Warriors fans in his section, according to pool media reports.
Secret Service agents remove a man from the crowd during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, May 30, 2016. A group of animal rights activists briefly interrupted the Sanders rally in Northern California when they jumped barricades and tried to rush the podium.
Sen. Bernie Sanders sits with San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim and Danny Glover during his camopaign appearance at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland on Monday. Sen. Bernie Sanders sits with San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim and Danny Glover during his camopaign appearance at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland on Monday.
The Vermont senator, who is hunkering down in California for his last showdown with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race, used the nickname as he bashed the presumptive Republican nominee for embracing -- and then backing away from -- the idea of a debate against Sanders. "Let me not worry about Hillary Clinton right now.
That's according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which helps explain the rise of outsider candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and suggests challenges ahead for fractured parties that must come together to win this fall. “It feels like the state of politics is generally broken,” said Joe Denother, a 37-year-old Oregon voter who typically favors Republicans.
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally at Ventura College on May 26, 2016 in Ventura, California. The California primary is June 7. Bernie Sanders meets with voters in California today, as that state and five other states prepare to vote next week.
Protesters with the Fight for $15 movement say Democratic presidential candidates must deserve their vote. I don't know Robert Reich personally, but I greatly respect and appreciate his work; his voice is an important one in the fight against inequality .