CLINTON TO CAMPAIGN IN SILVER STATE ON CINCO DE MAyO
Hillary Clinton will campaign in Nevada on May 5, a campaign official said Friday, demonstrating the state’s importance to winning the White House.
The visit will be the Democrat’s third stop in an early voting state since the former secretary of state announced her presidential candidacy April 12. Her first two campaign visits were to Iowa and New Hampshire.
A campaign official said the May visit will be the first of many conversations she’ll have with Nevadans about how to strengthen families and make the economy work for everyday Americans.
No details were released, although a Democratic operative not involved in the campaign said she plans a Las Vegas event.
Clinton isn’t taking any vote for granted, the official said, although she is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Nevada holds the first caucus in the West, typically in January or early February. The Republican presidential field in contrast is crowded as the GOP works to take back the White House after eight years of Democratic leadership by President Barack Obama.
Obama and Clinton split the Nevada delegates during the 2008 Democratic caucus.
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deep-pocketed donors.
Shortly after the law passed, as regulations were being drafted to clarify and tighten the law, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., engaged in a heated exchange with Feingold during a private caucus of Senate Democrats.
Clinton “acidly” told Feingold “that he did not live in the ‘real world’ of prosecutors ready to catch politicians on technicalities,” The New York Times wrote in an editorial at the time.
Feingold reportedly replied, “I also live in the real world, senator, and I function quite well in it.”
Now that she is running for president, Clinton has identified campaign finance reform as one of four “pillars” of her campaign.
“We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all, even if it takes a constitutional amendment,” Clinton said on her inaugural swing through Iowa after announcing her candidacy.