The Big Story: Clinton urges supporters to ignore calls to quit
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Unannounced visit to Congress
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama talks with delegate Madeleine Bordalla, D-Guam, Thursday, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. His unannounced visit during House votes lasted more than half an hour. He told reporters afterward he was asking members of Congress to support his White House candidacy and said he wants to bring the party together behind him as soon as possible. He said Clinton is a formidable candidate who is likely to win West Virginia And Kentucky, which vote in the next two weeks. |
By Beth Fouhy, Associated Press Writer
Published: Thursday, May 8, 2008 7:58 PM MST
CHARLESTON, W.Va. —Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged her supporters on Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast.
The former first lady raced into a long West Virginia-to-the-West Coast campaign day, declaring she would move forward with her presidential effort and insisting anew that she, not rival Barack Obama, would be the stronger Democratic candidate to face Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona in November.
At a rally under the dome of the West Virginia Capitol, Clinton dismissed calls for her to drop out as “deja vu all over again.” She said she had faced similar pressure before going on to win in New Hampshire, Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania.
She made her case for pressing on, even as she thanked her supporters for doing the same.
“A lot of you have stuck with me; you’ve been through all the ups and downs in this campaign, the biggest victories and toughest moments,” Clinton said. “I think it is because you understand that you’ve got to have a president who gets up every day and fights for you, who never gives up on you.”
Said Clinton as her audience cheered: “I’m running to be president of all 50 states. I think we ought to keep this going so the people of West Virginia’s voices are heard.”
“We need to bring back hardworking people to the Democratic Party,” the New York senator said. “I’m winning Catholic voters and Hispanic voters, blue-collar workers and seniors. People Sen. McCain will need in the general election.”
She added, “Some call you swing voters. I call you Americans.”
She is favored to win West Virginia’s primary but has fallen further behind Obama in delegates won in primaries and caucuses. Her hopes for the Democratic nomination rest on strong showings in the remaining contests to convince more than 200 party elders and other “superdelegates” to support her.
Cindy McCain won't release returns
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady.
“You know, my husband and I have been married 28 years and we have filed separate tax returns for 28 years. This is a privacy issue. My husband is the candidate,” Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain, said Thursday.
The Arizona senator released his tax return last month, reporting he had a total income of $405,409 in 2007 and paid $84,460 in federal income taxes.
He files his return separately from his wife, an heiress to a Phoenix-based beer distributing company whose fortune is in the $100 million range.
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