Hillary Clinton leans left out of Iowa with bold progressive checklist
Democratic presidential candidate ticks off several core liberal issues including low wages, gay marriage and healthcare reform in final day of successful road trip
Hillary Clinton headed out of Iowa on Wednesday – by plane this time, not in a Scooby-Doo van – at the end of a two-day trip that signaled a new beginning for the veteran politician and sounded a clarion call to a legion of voters on the left of the Democratic party who remain skeptical of her progressive credentials.
In an hour-long “conversation” with small-business leaders in Norwalk, a suburb of capital city Des Moines, Clinton ticked off several core issues that now ignite liberals. She pledged to take on low wages, unequal pay for women and immigration reform, as well as tackle an economic deck that she said was “still stacked in favor of those at the top” – and even the US supreme court on marriage equality.
Above all, the former secretary of state attached her name firmly to Barack Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, apparently unperturbed that Republicans intend to make Obamacare a major lever of their attack against the eventual Democratic nominee – whoever that will be – in the 2016 presidential election.
“I am committed to building on what works in the Act because 16 million people now have insurance who didn’t have it,” she said.
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