FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA — Many of the thousands of attendees at the National Urban League’s conference leapt to their feet as former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton went after the record of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Though Clinton did not call out Bush by name, she cited his campaign slogan “right to rise,” which is also the name of one of his Super PACs, and slammed the “mismatch” between his rhetoric and his actions.
“I don’t think you can credibly say that everyone has a right to rise and then say you are for phasing out Medicare and repealing Obamacare,” Clinton said, to loud applause from the audience. “They can’t rise if the minimum wage is too low to live on. You cannot seriously talk about the right to rise and support laws that deny the right to vote.”