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One Thing Hillary Clinton Understands About Politics in 2014
Clinton devoted a substantial portion of her speech in Kentucky—as she has other speeches on a busy schedule of appearances on behalf of Democrats in tight races—to specific and aggressive appeals for voters to cast their ballots with an eye toward increasing the minimum wage.
Mitch McConnell, Grimes's opponent, has made his opposition to hiking wages for the lowest-paid workers in Kentucky and across the country abundantly clear. When he met with the Koch brothers and their allies at a supposedly secret gathering in California last June, the Kentuckian said that if Republicans take charge of the Senate after the November election, "we're not going to be debating all these gosh-darn proposals…things like raising the minimum wage."
Grimes is different. She supports federal proposals to raise the wage to $10.10 an hour. And that's the stance that Clinton highlighted in her Kentucky swing on behalf of Grimes...
