Hillary Clinton visits Wisconsin for “Women for Hillary” event

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Hillary Clinton gives a speech in preparation for the 2016 presidential election. On Sept. 10, Clinton spoke at a “Women for Hillary” event in Milwaukee, explaining how her campaign is centering around women’s rights. “Women’s rights are human rights,” Clinton said. Image from Flickr Creative Commons

For her first campaign stop in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential front-runner, visited Milwaukee for a “Women for Hillary” event that took place at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sept. 10, 2015.

Throughout the duration of her speech, Clinton focused on women’s issues and on portraying herself as a leader, establishing distinct differences between her campaign points and those of other candidates, such as Republicans Scott Walker, Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Rand Paul.

Clinton’s campaign mostly focused on equal pay for women, children’s care and the Black Lives Matter movement, demonstrating the pertinence of these issues to the entire country.

If equal pay for equal work is playing the ‘gender card,’ then deal me in.

— Hillary Clinton

In addition, Clinton also advocated for cheaper tuition and for ways to pay off student debt. If elected, she hopes to have every person who wants to attend college to have the opportunity to go, no matter what his or her economic status is. Clinton hopes to achieve this by raising taxes and making “the rich pay their fair share” in her fight to refine student debt.

Besides justifying her plans for equal rights and student debt, Clinton mentioned how the Great Recession “knocked Americans down, but did not knock them out. And despite the loss of jobs, the loss of homes and the loss of dreams, people are coming back. America is coming back.”

By raising the minimum wage, Clinton hopes to get America’s economy back on track.

She also discussed campaign points such as climate change, gun violence, ISIS and the rocketing prices of prescription pills. “I want to be the president who takes on all the big problems you see on your screens,” Clinton said.

Through taking on both international and domestic issues, Clinton vowed to continue fighting for the underdogs and equality, ensuring that “America will be a place where a father should be able to say to his daughter that she can be whatever she wants in this country, including the president of the United States.”