Hillary Clinton, in Roosevelt Island Speech, Pledges to Close Income Gap

From Amy Chozick, at the New York Times:

Hillary Clinton, in Roosevelt Island speech, pledges to close the income gap. http://t.co/Luo7t2yLAy via @amychozick pic.twitter.com/rHCgbUJjYl

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Bill Clinton sported the fedora today (h/t @eorden) pic.twitter.com/IDnpEjTNqF

— Amy Chozick (@amychozick) June 13, 2015

This is the old sanitarium. Roosevelt island used to be used for quarantines. pic.twitter.com/L3imG3KRpo

— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 13, 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a speech that was at times sweeping and at times policy laden, delivered on Saturday a pointed repudiation of Republican economic policies and a populist promise to reverse the gaping gulf between the rich and poor at her biggest campaign event to date.

Under sunny skies and surrounded by flag-waving supporters on Roosevelt Island in New York, Mrs. Clinton pledged to run an inclusive campaign and to create a more inclusive economy, saying that even the new voices in the Republican Party continued to push “the top-down economic policies that failed us before.”

“These Republicans trip over themselves promising lower taxes for the wealthy and fewer rules for the biggest corporations without any regard on how that will make inequality worse,” she said before a crowd estimated at 5,500, according to the campaign.

“I’m not running for some Americans,” Mrs. Clinton said. “I’m running for all Americans.”

Offering her case for the presidency, she rested heavily on her biography. Her candidacy, she said, was in the name of “everyone who has ever been knocked down but refused to be knocked out.”

Mrs. Clinton portrayed herself as a fighter, sounding a theme her campaign had emphasized in recent days. “I’ve been called many things by many people, quitter is not one of them,” she said.

Standing on a platform set in the middle of a grassy memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt on the East River island named after him, Mrs. Clinton invoked his legacy. She also praised President Obama and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, but declared that “we face new challenges” in the aftermath of the economic crisis...

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