Hillary Clinton mobilised Democrats in support of Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday in New York City. Hochul is running for his first full term and is in a closer-than-expected battle against Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin.
“Like other elections, this one is a decision. It’s not just a choice between two candidates; rather, it’s a decision between two drastically divergent perspectives on the identity of our state and nation, according to Clinton.
Clinton pushed Zeldin over his House votes against the Violence Against Women Act, equal pay, raising the minimum wage, and Medicare financing. Clinton was the first woman elected statewide in New York during her 2000 Senate campaign. She also made the case for Hochul, the state’s first female governor.
However, Clinton’s address included a more thorough critique of the Republican Party, particularly with regard to their crime-related rhetoric. She used the recent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, as an example.
“I want everyone to stay secure. Who is against that, really? Subsequently, a horrific crime occurs in San Francisco. Republicans make jokes about an 82-year-old man who is married to the speaker of the house being struck in the head by an intruder with a hammer. The female candidate for Arizona’s governor makes jokes about it. Clinton referred to Arizona’s GOP candidate for governor, Kari Lake, and asked, “Now why would any sensible person want to give power to somebody who thinks it’s funny that someone gets assaulted in his own home?”
Clinton went on, “They want to keep you scared; they don’t care about keeping you safe.”
Clinton, like Hochul, the person she introduced, and the speakers who spoke before her—Chuck Schumer, the majority leader in the Senate, and Letitia James, the attorney general of New York—focused especially on Republican attempts to regress abortion rights and other progressive gains of the previous fifty years.
“If you follow this campaign closely, you’ll see that Republicans are open about their goals. The silent part is said aloud by them. Clinton claimed that Lee Zeldin, Kathy’s opponent, Donald Trump, and their supporters are essentially fighting tooth and nail to turn back time.
“Well, it makes sense—they want to reverse the progress made in the field of abortion. They attempted to make that happen for fifty years. However, they seek to regress civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights generally, and LGBT rights. I thought we had moved on from these ways a long time ago, but they are determined to dominate who we are, how we feel, believe, and act,” she continued.
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