Subject: FW: Early Reviews Praise Hillary's Launch Speech for Laying Out Her Agenda to Fight for Everyday Americans
From: Christina Reynolds <[email-masked]>
To: Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:48:08 -0400

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*Subject:* Early Reviews Praise Hillary's Launch Speech for Laying Out Her
Agenda to Fight for Everyday Americans

*Early Reviews Praise Hillary’s Launch Speech for Laying Out Her Agenda to
Fight for Everyday Americans*

Today, Hillary Clinton delivered her campaign launch speech to a capacity
crowd on New York City’s Roosevelt Island. The speech centered on her
vision for America and her bold progressive agenda, her personal story and
how it guides her fight for everyday Americans. She outlined her guiding
principle that the true measure of America’s success shouldn’t be how those
at the top are doing, but how all American families are doing, contrasted
with the “yesterday” agenda of today’s Republicans.

*Take a look at some of the early coverage of her successful launch
speech...*

*NBC News: Clinton: 'It's Time' for all Americans to Share in Country's
Success
<http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hillary-clinton-unveil-focus-2016-campaign-n374691>*

Hillary Clinton on Saturday told struggling Americans "it's time" for them
to share in the country's economic success and recalled a personal history
that inspired a lifetime of service for the disenfranchised in her first
major speech since launching her presidential campaign. … Clinton, who
announced her candidacy in an online video in April, used the rally to
detail a progressive platform focused on working-class Americans who
continue to struggle, even as the country's economic outlook has improved.
… Clinton laid out the "four fights" her campaign would focus on in the
park that commemorates the "Four Freedoms" President Franklin Roosevelt
talked about in his 1941 State of the Union address. Clinton's fights
included a number of progressive proposals meant to help middle and lower
class workers, protecting the country from threats abroad and reforming
government. … The Democratic frontrunner highlighted her career as a
crusader for the disenfranchised.

*Bloomberg: **Hillary Clinton Talks Economy, Her Story, at First Campaign
Rally*
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-13/hillary-clinton-talks-economy-her-story-at-first-campaign-rally>

Hillary Clinton launched the second phase of her presidential campaign on
Saturday, drawing heavily on her personal story as she outlined her vision
for shared prosperity for all Americans. … After downplaying her gender
when she first ran for president, Clinton embraced it in her first stump
speech of the 2016 campaign, along with another quality that some of her
opponents have tried to make an issue. "I may not be the youngest candidate
in the race, but I will be the youngest woman president of the United
States" the 67-year-old Clinton declared, in what aides later said was an
ad libbed line inspired by a South Carolina woman she met on the campaign
trail. The crowd that the Clinton camp estimated at 5,500 exploded in a
flag-waving roar of approval.

*Washington Post: **Hillary Clinton: ‘You brought our country back. Now
it’s time — your time.’*
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/13/after-staying-small-hillary-clinton-goes-big-with-splashy-kick-off-rally-in-new-york/?postshare=4481434214692348>

Sketching a vision of a more hopeful, inclusive America that takes care of
its own while taking on big challenges such as climate change, Hillary
Rodham Clinton said Saturday she is running for president to be the
champion the country needs now, as well as its history-making first female
commander in chief. … “I may not be the youngest candidate in this race,
but I'll be the youngest woman president in the history of the United
States,” she told a crowd of cheering supporters on the southern tip of
Roosevelt Island, with a stunning East River view of the Manhattan skyline
in the background, the United Nations building sparkling in bright sunshine
behind the podium. … Framed around the story of how Clinton’s late mother,
Dorothy Rodham, emerged from a childhood of mistreatment without losing her
faith in humanity, the speech laid out how Clinton drew lessons about hope,
perseverance and kindness from her mother’s example.

*Associated Press: **Hillary Clinton Urges New Era of Shared American
Prosperity*
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEM_2016_CLINTON?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>

Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a new era of shared prosperity in America
and told thousands at a presidential campaign rally Saturday that workers
can trust her to fight for them. … In the first major speech of her second
campaign for president, Clinton portrayed herself as a fierce advocate for
those left behind after the recession. … Eager and excited Democrats began
assembling hours before they heard from the front-runner for the nomination.

*POLITICO: **Hillary Clinton comes out fighting in campaign kickoff rally*
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/hillary-clinton-comes-out-fighting-in-campaign-kickoff-rally-118971.html>

Seven years after she left the presidential stage thanking supporters for
putting “18 million cracks” in the highest glass ceiling, Hillary Clinton
kicked off her campaign Saturday with a wink to her past, pointing out that
she was launching under blue Manhattan skies, “with absolutely no ceilings.” …
If there was a clear theme to Clinton’s remarks, it was the “four fights”
she vowed to wage on behalf of “everyday Americans”: building an economy
for tomorrow, strengthening America and our core values, and revitalizing
our democracy, in the campaign’s boiled-down language. Her candidacy, she
said, would be a battle “for everyone who’s been knocked down but refused
to be knocked out.”

*Univision: Hillary Clinton arranca su batalla por la Presidencia
<http://noticias.univision.com/article/2367281/2015-06-13/estados-unidos/noticias/clinton-busca-despertar-el-entusiasmo-con-un-evento-multitudinario-en-ny?ftloc=homepage1:wcmWidgetUimHomepageStage&ftpos=homepage1:wcmWidgetUimHomepageStage:1>*

En su primer discurso multitudinario tras 10 semanas de campaña, Hillary
Clinton se presentó este sábado en Nueva York como defensora de las
minorías y los estadounidenses de clase media. La candidata demócrata busca
despertar el entusiasmo de las masas que quieren poner freno a la creciente
brecha entre los ricos y el resto.

*El Nuevo Herald: Hillary Clinton lanza en Nueva York campaña a la Casa
Blanca
<http://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/estados-unidos/article23954101.html>*

Ardientes partidarios convergían el sábado hacia un parque neoyorquino para
presencia el lanzamiento de la campaña de Hillary Clinton para convertirse
en la primera mujer presidente de Estados Unidos y exponer su visión del
futuro.

*Reuters: **Hillary Clinton makes pitch to working Americans at big rally*
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/13/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSKBN0OT06E20150613>

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton pledged on Saturday to help working
Americans reap the rewards of their hard work, as she staged the first
major rally of her 2016 White House campaign. Casting herself as a fighter
for ordinary Americans, Clinton promised to "make the economy work for
everyday Americans, not just those at the top."

*TIME: **Hillary Clinton Launches Her Campaign as Economic Populist*
<http://time.com/3920328/hillary-clinton-campaign-launch-speech/?xid=tcoshare>

Hillary Clinton on Saturday laid out a broad vision of economic and social
inclusion in the U.S., calling for middle-class economic policies that help
restore income equality and telling a cheering crowd, “it’s your time.”

*CBS News: **Clinton lays out populist agenda in campaign kickoff*
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-kicks-off-campaign-with-promise-to-fight-for-american-workers/>

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton officially launched her
2016 campaign in New York Saturday, laying out a populist policy agenda
that would fight "for all Americans." … Standing atop a stage shaped in the
likeness of her campaign logo -- a large "H" with an arrow pointing right
-- Clinton cited "America's basic bargain" as a guiding principle of her
campaign and her personal life: "If you do your part, you ought to be able
to get ahead." … In her first major campaign speech, the former Democratic
senator also blasted her Republican opponents for the White House,
criticizing their top-down economic policies as "the same old song."
Clinton attacked the GOP's "mass amnesia" when it came to easing banking
regulations to benefit Wall Street and criticized their promise to repeal
the Affordable Care Act "to take away health insurance" from everyday
Americans.

*USA Today: Hillary Clinton launches campaign with memories of mom, FDR
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/06/13/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-roosevelt-island/71133746/>*

To explain her vision of prosperity, she cited two voices from the
Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and her mother. … And echoing
the "four freedoms'' Roosevelt declared in a 1941 speech, Clinton
identified "four fights'' she'd wage as president: for equitable economic
growth, for national security, for better treatment of children and
families and for more efficient and less corrupt government.

*The New York Times: **Hillary Clinton, in Roosevelt Island Speech, Pledges
to Close Income Gap*
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/us/hillary-clinton-attacks-republican-economic-policies-in-roosevelt-island-speech.html>

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 are still pushing “the top-down economic policies that
failed us before.” … Mrs. Clinton portrayed herself as a fighter, sounding
a theme her campaign has emphasized in recent days. “I’ve been called many
things by many people, quitter is not one of them,’’ she said.

*Washington Post’s Plum Line: **How Hillary Clinton’s kickoff speech
highlighted her advantage over Republicans*
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/06/13/how-hillary-clintons-kickoff-speech-highlighted-her-advantage-over-republicans/>

This speech, like much of what Clinton does now, is about creating a
synthesis out of two related goals or ideas. She wants to energize liberals
in a way that also wins independents. She wants to advocate an economic
agenda that will be substantively compelling and also creates a personal
affinity with voters. It’s Clinton’s good fortune that she has at least the
opportunity to do both at the same time. … And I’d challenge Republicans to
look at the policy proposals in the speech and say about any of them, “Oh
boy, the general electorate isn’t going to go for that.”

*The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Pat Healy: **The Chat: Hillary
Clinton’s Rally Speech, Instantly Analyzed*
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/13/the-chat-hillary-clintons-rally-speech-instantly-analyzed/>

Haberman: “She is very invested in her mother’s history, and what her
mother gave her. And she tells that story with real emotion. … She seems
happiest talking about her mom, and about making history herself.

Healy: “Here is some policy and some real heart. ‘I will propose that we
make pre-school and quality child care available to every child in
America,’ she says. ‘Research tells us how much early learning in the first
five years of life impacts lifelong success.’ Women and children – her
deepest passions, no question.” … She got personal and turned fun. … A
beautiful thought she attributes to her mom: ‘Life is not what happens to
you – it’s about what you do with what happens to you. So get back out
there.’”

*CNN: **Clinton strikes populist tone to make case for 2016 campaign*
<http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/politics/hillary-clinton-roosevelt-island-rally/index.html>

Hillary Clinton used the first major rally of her second run for the White
House Saturday to make a populist case for her presidential campaign,
declaring that the goal of her presidency would be to tip the nation's
economic scales back toward the middle class's favor. … Supporters began
lining up at 6:30 a.m. for a rally that wouldn't begin until four hours
later.

*ABC News: **Hillary Clinton Says in Official Campaign Kickoff She's
Running 'for All Americans'*
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-official-campaign-kickoff-shes-running-americans/story?id=31745394>

Hillary Clinton officially kicked off her presidential campaign today,
making her most extensive pitch yet on why she should be president, framing
her candidacy as a choice between forward-thinking policies, and the failed
ones of her Republican opponents

*The Daily Beast’s Olivia Nuzzi **@olivianuzzi*
<https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/609754082513960961>

Biggest cheer for Hillary so far: hitting GOP on not letting women make
their own reproductive healthcare decisions.

*ABC News’ Liz Kreutz **@ABCLiz*
<https://twitter.com/ABCLiz/status/609754360071983104>

Big applause when Clinton says Republicans turn their back on gay people
who love each other

*Bloomberg’s Jennifer Epstein **@jeneps*
<https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/609754987871256576>

Hillary Clinton is drawing on her past even a little more than anticipated
to explain why she's the right person to lead into the future

*MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald **@aseitzwald*
<https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/609757131382853633>

A lot of meat in this speech, from clean energy to infrastructure bank to
universal pre-K.

*MSNBC’s Joy Reid **@JoyAnnReid*
<https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/609758138955382784>

Robust applause for equal pay, reducing incarceration, expanding preschool
and path to citizenship. #Hillary2016 #rooseveltIsland

*CNBC and The New York Times’ John Harwood **@JohnJHarwood*
<https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/609765782050844673>

best part of HRC speech was most personal part toward the end. Humor and
humility.

*Slate’s Jamelle Bouie **@jbouie*
<https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/609765701528653825>

Hillary's money in politics and democracy stuff has the potential to be a
very strong message for swing and disengaged voters.

*CNN’s Jeff Zeleny **@jeffzeleny*
<https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/609761249782411264>

Good closing riff for @HillaryClinton, with humor and humility: "I've been
called many things in my life. Quitter is not one of them."

*Bloomberg’s Jennifer Epstein **@jeneps*
<https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/609763562324672512>

While 5,500 may not be huge, it's capacity for the space. Not to mention no
D or R has drawn a crowd anywhere close to this size thus far.

*Human Rights Campaign’s Chad Griffin **@ChadHGriffin*
<https://twitter.com/ChadHGriffin/status/609763226205724672>

.@HillaryClinton is right. Beyond marriage, we must end the epidemic of
discrimination against LGBT people from coast to coast.

*EMILY’s List’s Stephanie Schriock @Schriock1
<https://twitter.com/Schriock1/status/609763064196435969>*

Great vision. Great energy. It's our time! Let's all get to work. Fight for
all Americans! #Hillary2016

*America’s Voice’s Gabe Ortiz **@TUSK81*
<https://twitter.com/TUSK81/status/609754751941505024>

.@HillaryClinton slams Republican attacks on gay Americans and immigrants.
I've got your back, Hillary! #Hillary2016

*League of Conservation Voters’ Tiernan Sittenfeld*

Kudos to Secretary Clinton!  We’re thrilled that today’s powerful speech
builds on her long record of environmental leadership by making crystal
clear that climate change will be a top priority throughout her campaign.

*Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards **@CecileRichards*
<https://twitter.com/CecileRichards/status/609757949934858241>

All that! Love having a woman standing up for all women! @HillaryClinton

*American Federation of Teachers’ Randi Weingarten @rweingarten
<https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/609798006876016640>*

Hillary says we must give teachers "the respect they deserve 4 sparking the
love of learning in every child.” Amen.
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/13/8776067/hillary-clinton-transcript-campaign-launch

*Feminist Author Jessica Valenti **@JessicaValenti*
<https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/609757357778817025>

Affordable & accessible early childhood education is a HUGE feminist issue
we don't hear enough about. Very glad @HillaryClinton is on it.

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