Unveils gun control measures
Clinton unveils gun control measures she would enact as president, including calls for universal background checks and a crackdown on the sale of guns on the Internet. She invites the mother of a boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to join her on stage.
So many of the parents of these precious children who were murdered have taken the unimaginable grief that they have been burying and have tried to be the voices that we need to hear, and I want you to introduce yourself and maybe talk about what you and other parents are trying to do to get the changes that are necessary.
The mother:
Gun violence prevention was no where on my radar before losing my son and I wish it had been and I wish I had done something long before something that I thought could never hit my community hit me.
SNL bartender skit
In a skit on SNL, Clinton (McKinnon) confides her concerns about the 2016 presidential race to her bartender, Val (Clinton), and sings Lean On Me.
Clinton: I’m just so darned bummed, all anyone wants to talk about is Donald Trump.
Val: Donald Trump? Isn’t he the one that says ‘you’re all losers’?
Trump – Clinton call skit
Clinton chats with Fallon, playing Trump, in a skit on The Tonight Show.
Clinton: What is your stance on women’s issues.
Fallon/Trump: I know a lot of women and they have issues.
When Fallon/Trump makes fun of Sanders’s lack of hair, Clinton:
Yeah, well, at least he doesn’t have one strand that he twirls over his head like a soft-serve at Dairy Queen.
Dances with Ellen
Clinton dances with Ellen on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Dancer Boss teaches them the Silento’s Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) dance moves.
This Is The Republican Party ad
Priorities USA, which supports Clinton, releases a 30-second ad, subtitled in Spanish, titled This Is the Republican Party, in Colorado, Florida and Nevada. The ad opens with Trump’s announcement speech. The video then cuts to audio of Bush using the term “anchor babies,” and Walker comments on ending birthright citizenship.
First major campaign speech
Clinton launches her campaign in earnest with a 45-minute address on Roosevelt Island in New York City:
It is wonderful…to be here in this beautiful park dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt’s enduring vision of America, the nation we want to be.
The speech emphasizes her biography:
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.
Clinton tells how her mother was abandoned by her own parents and started supporting herself as a teenager:
My mother taught me that everybody needs a chance and a champion. She knew what it was like not to have either one. I wish my mother could have been with us longer. I wish she could have seen Chelsea become a mother herself. I wish she could have met Charlotte. I wish she could have seen the America we’re going to build together.
And her view that American success should be measured by how well ordinary families are doing, not by the wealth of a few.
It’s America’s basic bargain: if you do your part, you ought to be able to get ahead. Democracy can’t be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain too. I’m not running for some Americans, but for all Americans…You brought our country back. Now it’s time — your time — to secure our gains and move ahead
March in Chappaqua
Hillary and Bill Clinton march in their hometown Memorial Day parade in Chappaqua. The Clintons smile and wave at supporters. Hillary Clinton poses for selfies while still walking the route. Hillary:
Many of our veterans came home from combat with injuries of all kinds. This is a way of demonstrating that they are not forgotten, and we are going to make sure we do everything we can to honor their sacrifice.
Wants to be ‘the small business President’
Clinton participates in a discussion about the local and national economy with the community in New Hampshire. Her main focus for this discussion is how the state of the economy affects small businesses.
There’s nothing more important than small business, it is the engine of economic growth, it is where most of our jobs come from, and I want to be the small business President.
‘We have a fun deficit in America’
Clinton talks about having sleepaway camps for adults and more relationship-building in Washington, at the American Camp Association of New York and New Jersey’s Tri-State CAMP Conference.
We really need camps for adults. None of the serious stuff … I think we have a fun deficit in America…If you don’t build relationships with people and all you do is show up to argue or show up to point fingers, you can’t get anything done.
UN women’s rights speech
Clinton talks about women’s rights in a speech to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women:
We focus world attention on issues that matter most in our lives — the lives of women and their families: access to education, health care, jobs and credit, the chance to enjoy basic legal and human rights and to participate fully in the political life of our countries. What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, free from violence, and have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. When families flourish, communities and nations do as well. Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.
