Bernie has been insisting he has this ability to drive record turnout and this turnout will be a revolution.
Clinton: "Let's hold police behavior accountable so that there's an incentive for people to change how they are doing police practices."
https://twitter.com/darrensands/status/70232022662546227
https://twitter.com/deray
To be sure, the young activists of Black Lives Matter are a tough crowd for HRC to win, some seemed to pan her comment but if even there she is getting some notice, she is on the right track.
Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night that if she were elected she would do more to reduce police violence against unarmed Americans, especially black Americans.
"In response to a question about pop star Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime performance at a CNN town hall in South Carolina, Clinton acknowledged there is an "enormous number of police officers in our country that perform honorably every single day." But she also said there was more to do."
"We have lost too many young people, so what's the answer?" she said. "I don't think the answer is for us to find ourselves in opposing camps where we're just going to be looking at each other with, you know, mistrust. We have to figure out how we're going to lift up the good practices, reform policing, provide more support, so that force is a last resort, not a first choice."
"Clinton pointed out mothers in the audience who had lost children to violent encounters with law enforcement and advocated for more police training."
"We've got to come to grips with the fact that we've got to do some retraining here," she said. "We've got to do some work."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-police-violence
She's using words like 'systemic racism' and how white Americans need to understand others have different experience, etc. She's even talking Beyonce.
However, at this point, he hasn't been driving record turnout. No, the guy doing this has been Trump.
In 2008, Obama generated record turnout for the Dems. This year has been the GOP's turn with Trump.
This morning the big story is the Trump's huge win in Nevada. As Morning Joe said this morning, if Marco Rubio had won NH, SC, and then Nevada by the margins he has the pundits would be saying it's over.
But there was a town hall in SC last night and Hillary did very well. One sign that she got through where she wanted to: Deray McKesson tweeted her comments on race.
https://twitter.com/darrensands/status/70232022662546227
https://twitter.com/deray
To be sure, the young activists of Black Lives Matter are a tough crowd for HRC to win, some seemed to pan her comment but if even there she is getting some notice, she is on the right track.
Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night that if she were elected she would do more to reduce police violence against unarmed Americans, especially black Americans.
"In response to a question about pop star Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime performance at a CNN town hall in South Carolina, Clinton acknowledged there is an "enormous number of police officers in our country that perform honorably every single day." But she also said there was more to do."
"We have lost too many young people, so what's the answer?" she said. "I don't think the answer is for us to find ourselves in opposing camps where we're just going to be looking at each other with, you know, mistrust. We have to figure out how we're going to lift up the good practices, reform policing, provide more support, so that force is a last resort, not a first choice."
"Clinton pointed out mothers in the audience who had lost children to violent encounters with law enforcement and advocated for more police training."
"We've got to come to grips with the fact that we've got to do some retraining here," she said. "We've got to do some work."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-police-violence
She's using words like 'systemic racism' and how white Americans need to understand others have different experience, etc. She's even talking Beyonce.
Saturday should be a very good day for her.
Predictably, the Bernie folks accuse her of 'pandering' but as Jim Clyburn notes it's a catch 22. If she weren't talking about racial issues she'd be accused of taking her black support for granted.
UPDATE: She just got another big endorsement:
".@AntonioFrench, recognized as the alderman on the ground/recording protests in Ferguson, endorses @HillaryClinton: http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/article_3615ae0a-da8a-11e5-a91f-a3f7b1e8ef09.html …"
https://twitter.com/KWestSavali/status/702376347730124802
http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/article_3615ae0a-da8a-11e5-a91f-a3f7b1e8ef09.html
UPDATE: She just got another big endorsement:
".@AntonioFrench, recognized as the alderman on the ground/recording protests in Ferguson, endorses @HillaryClinton: http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/article_3615ae0a-da8a-11e5-a91f-a3f7b1e8ef09.html …"
https://twitter.com/KWestSavali/status/702376347730124802
http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/article_3615ae0a-da8a-11e5-a91f-a3f7b1e8ef09.html
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