CULVER CITY — Touting campaign themes such as preserving Obamacare, ensuring paid family leave and defending women’s rights, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a rally at West Los Angeles College Friday to urge supporters to get to the polls next week — as her California race with Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders gets tighter.
“We have to — starting in the California primary on Tuesday — send an unmistakable message we are stronger together, we are going to work together for a better and fairer nation,” Clinton told a cheering crowd at a “Women for Hillary.”
“And that’s why I need all of you to send in those ballots that are sitting on your kitchen counter,” she said. “If all goes well, I will have the great honor as of Tuesday to be the Democratic nominee for president.”
Clinton again took aim at presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, calling him “unprepared” and “unfit to be president,” and saying the nation cannot afford a Trump presidency.
“We have worked too hard for too long,” she said. “We have come too far to let anybody turn us back now and we are going to stand our ground while we seek common ground to solve the problems that face our country, to bring people to together across all the lines that divide us.”
The appearance in Culver City, which was attended by a host of female elected officials and celebrities such as Elizabeth Banks and Sally Field, was the first of four Southern California events on Clinton’s schedule for the day.
She later attended a rally at the Westminster Rose Center, then took part in a conversation with “community leaders” at Crave restaurant, both in Santa Ana, before attending an evening rally at Cal State San Bernardino.
Former President Bill Clinton, meanwhile, also was in the area stumping on behalf of his wife’s campaign, with rallies in Burbank, Pacoima, Woodland Hills and Santa Monica.
Clinton’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sanders, was campaigning in Northern California, speaking at rallies in Cloverdale and Fairfield and conducting what his campaign called a labor news conference in Berkeley with Robert Reich, a labor secretary during Bill Clinton’s administration.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald J. Trump was also be in Northern California, speaking at an early afternoon rally in Redding.
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