Former President Bill Clinton showed again he is the master of communication, making the case to elect the Harris/Walz Ticket while headlining a campaign event at the Chateau Luxe in Phoenix.
The event, attended by about 400 eager Harris/Walz supporters, also featured opening speeches by Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and Representative and Democratic Senate Nominee Ruben Gallego.
In his remarks, the Forty Second President called on the audience to turn out the vote by reaching out their hands to their neighbors, and “Ask them to vote for Ruben. Ask them to vote for Kamala. Ask them to the vote for America’s future. Ask them to vote for our children.”
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego frames what is at stake in this election.
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego opened the event saying “It’s get out the vote time” and “Time when we can’t leave anything in the field when we encourage our friends and neighbors to…vote early.”
She also framed what is at stake in this election, conveying:
“I don’t have to tell you what this means for our future. A future where our kids can breathe clean air. Where families can get ahead. Where there’s promise for good jobs. Where women have full autonomy over their bodies. Kamala Harris will deliver an America where we read books, not ban them. The Harris/Walz ticket will bring high wage union jobs to its quintessential promise of being a place where everyone can achieve their dreams.”
The Mayor, responding to recent reports that Mr. Trump might reduce funding in the CHIPS and Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act, warned that if that were to occur, Phoenix would lose $65 billion from its investments in the alliance with Taiwan Semi Conductor “that’s creating high wage jobs and the future of our economy.”
Gallego praised the Biden/Harris Administration for bringing back manufacturing jobs to the United States and told attendees that all of that was at risk with a Trump return to the White House, saying “We can’t afford to go backwards. We’ve made too much progress just for someone who cares only about himself to come and undo it. We deserve better. We deserve Vice President Harris and Governor Walz.“
She closed by asking people to work hard and win this election in 13 days, saying “Leave no door unknocked” and “No ballot unreturned.”
Ruben Gallego talks about his Senate Candidacy and Introduces the Man from Hope.
Representative Ruben Gallego spoke about his background, impressive rise in public service, candidacy for the Senate and, like Mayor Gallego, the stakes in this election, relaying:
“We have to make a decision. We have 13 days to decide the future of this state and essentially, the future of this country. We get to decide what the future looks like for our kids. When they grow up in a country where they can access education. In a great paying job. Where they have just as many rights as our grandparents did as our grandmothers did. Because that’s the future we have to fight for now and the energy that we need for that is in this room right now…”
“…There is so much at stake. Whether it is fighting for our veterans, cutting costs, for our families, protecting abortion rights and so much more. We need someone to go to this end that actually represents you and understands you and understands the people that are working every day just to make it.”
On his visits with voters across the state including 20 of the 22 Tribal Nations in Arizona, the Senate Nominee said:
“They want a future for their kids. So this is why the fight matters. Because what we see now is someone is only going to give us division and hate, not unifying Arizona or to move us forward together. Our kids need a unified vision for the future, not someone who wants to separate and scares us and that’s what Kari Lake is. But I have a plan. Number One, we’re going to defeat Kari Lake. Number two, we’re going to defeat Donald Trump. We are going to fight and win for a better future.”
In his closing remarks, Gallego introduced Bill Clinton, calling the former President and Man from Hope, Arkansas, an inspiration and role model for him as he, like Clinton, made his way from humble origins to a powerful public servant in Arizona.
The Man From Hope Does It Again.
Perhaps the best communicator in Modern Presidential History, former President Bill Clinton delivered telling remarks that framed why it was essential to vote for Kamala Harris and defeat Donald Trump.
Repeating what he said at the Democratic Convention that with Donald Trump “You should not just count his lies but also count his I’s.”
Mr. Clinton, who won Arizona in 1996, described his twice impeached successor as a frequent liar who wants to run on blaming people and the nations ills rather than propose solutions, like solving border security, because that is what he is.
The former President proved his points by citing Trump and his MAGA associates contention that 13,000 illegal immigrants have committed murder in the last four years and the Congo has opened their jails and deported their criminals to the United States.
Saying that when he was the President, he would have had access to reports on events like those Trump lies about, Clinton told the audience what news organizations like CNN have already proven Trump’s accusations about 13,000 illegal immigrants committing murder are off by 36 years and Congo has never deported their criminals to the United States.
On the state of the American Economy, Mr. Clinton said the United States, with the largest four year historic record in job creation occurring during the Biden/Harris years, was “The best positioned country in the Twenty First Century.”
In a rebuke to Trump, he said, to roaring applause “Our diversity is an asset. Our immigrants are an asset.”
He also reminded the audience that seventy percent of the economists asked to compare the Harris and Trump Economic Plans found hers (with its emphasis on affordable housing, reducing prices and taxes for the middle class, and promoting green collar jobs) would grow the economy more and lead to greater prosperity.
Clinton also said that Trumps plan “Would make it (the economy) worse. He wants to put all these tariffs on things that we can’t buy anywhere else. And it’s going to cost the average family about 4,000 bucks a year. And then he wants to have these huge tax cuts for Millionaires and billionaires which will over a period of years cost $7.5 trillion dollars…His (economic plan)would cost more than twice as much money (as Harris’s,) would lead to more inflation, and would be very painful for middle-income people to bear. And would help far fewer than half as many people as her program.”
After calling on the audience to help elect Kamala Harris and Ruben Gallego, the former President said the best way to rate a successful public servant was a scorecard with the following criteria:
- Are people better off at the end of your term than the beginning?
- Do the children have a brighter future?
Comparing the policies Kamala Harris has supported in the Biden/Harris Administration and results for the American People (Lower drug costs for seniors, The Pact Act for Veterans, Infrastructure, a resurgence in American manufacturing,) to the ones offered by Donald Trump during his one term (tax cuts for the rich, mismanaging the Coronavirus, the attack on the Nation’s Capitol,) and how that turned out for the country, Clinton said “I don’t think it’s a close question.”
The Man from Hope is right.
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