133
reasons (and counting!) Hillary Clinton should be our next president
We could keep going.
1.
As a former secretary of state, U.S.
senator, first lady, and a lifelong advocate for women and families, no one is
more qualified to be president than Hillary.
2.
Hillary knows child care, equal pay,
and paid leave are fundamental economic issues—not just “women’s issues.”
3.
We can’t afford a temperamentally unfit,
manifestly unqualified candidate in the White House.
4.
Our democracy should work for
everyone—not just the wealthy and well-connected.
5.
Our next president could make
multiple appointments to the Supreme Court.
6.
We need comprehensive background
checks on gun purchases.
7.
She’ll fight to overturn Citizens
United to curb the outsized influence of big money in politics.
8.
Because the wealthiest should pay
their fair share in taxes.
9.
We need comprehensive immigration
reform that includes a path to full and equal citizenship.
10.She
will tackle the threat of climate change head-on by making America the world’s
clean energy superpower—because, unlike her opponent, she doesn’t believe it’s
a Chinese hoax.
11. She’s set a big goal: more than half a billion
solar panels installed across the country by the end of her first term.
12. She’s set another big goal: to generate enough
renewable energy to power every home in America within 10 years of her taking
office.
13. When they go low, she goes high.
14. The economy is stronger when a Democrat is in the
White House.
15.
Hillary will defend
Planned Parenthood and women’s health care from Republican attacks.
16. Because debt-free college should be available to
all Americans—and current borrowers should be able to refinance their loans and
save money.
17. She will build an economy that works for
everybody—not just the top 1 percent.
18.Guaranteed
paid family leave.
19. She declared on the world stage that “gay rights
are human rights.”
20.
Because we need a president who has a
plan to hold Wall Street accountable.
21. As first lady, she helped get health care coverage
for 8 million American children.
22.
After decades of fighting for progressive
issues (and 11 straight hours of testimony in front of a Republican-led
congressional committee), she’s proved nobody can stand up to Republicans
better than she can.
23.
Our veterans should have access to
timely and high quality health care.
24.
She’s the only candidate with the NRA
running ads against her.
25.
Hillary believes that raising
middle-class incomes is the defining economic challenge of our time—and she has
a plan to do just that.
26.
Suspected terrorists, domestic
abusers, other violent criminals, and the severely mentally ill shouldn’t be
able to purchase a gun.
27.Because
every 4-year-old in America should be able to go to a high-quality preschool in
the next 10 years.
28.
We need to invest in infrastructure
and rebuild or expand our roads, bridges, rail, broadband, public transit, and
water and energy infrastructure.
29.
We need to protect Americans’ right
to vote—not billionaires’ and corporations’ right to buy elections.
30.
Have you seen the
things Trump says at his rallies?
31. Have you seen Trump in a debate?
32.
Hillary will work to keep families
together and defend President Obama’s executive actions that protect DREAMers.
33.
She has spent her life fighting for a
fairer America.
34.
She’s been fighting for women and
children her entire career—ever since she started working at the Children’s
Defense Fund after law school.
35.
She believes we need a new and
comprehensive commitment to equity and opportunity for communities of color.
36.
She’ll empower veterans—and
strengthen our economy and communities—by connecting their unique skills to the
jobs of the future.
37.Prescription
drug costs are still too high—and Hillary has a plan to lower them.
38.
As senator, she championed the
Paycheck Fairness Act and co-sponsored the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help
close the wage gap so women earn equal pay.
39.
It’s time to close the Charleston
loophole that lets otherwise prohibited individuals buy a gun if their
background check is not complete in three days.
40.
Because we should
do all the good we can for all the people we can for as long as we can.
41. Community college should be tuition-free for every
American.
42.
Hillary negotiated a ceasefire
between Israel and Hamas that ended the rain of rockets on Israel.
43.
Smart power is a smart strategy.
44.
We need a president who will crack
down on companies that send profits overseas to avoid paying their fair share
in U.S. taxes.
45.
She’ll defend Social Security and
Medicare against Republican attacks.
46.
We need a president with a plan to
protect the transgender community from violence.
47.
If Congress
continues its refusal to act on comprehensive immigration reform, Hillary has a
plan to act—and do everything possible under the law to protect families.
48.
She knows how to find common ground
to get the job done—but also how to stand her ground.
49.
Hillary is the only candidate who’s
ready to be Commander-in-Chief (and who doesn’t call the U.S. military a
“disaster.”)
50.
She has a plan to reform mandatory
minimum sentencing.
51. We need a small-business president.
52.
Because every American citizen should
be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18, unless they opt out.
Hillary will get it done.
53.
She’s a progressive—and she’s a
progressive who gets things done.
54.
Immigration enforcement must be
humane and targeted—and she’ll end family detention and close private detention
centers.
55.
Hillary has a plan to reduce the risk
of future financial crises.
56.
Because we should hold corporations
and individuals on Wall Street accountable—and prosecute them when they break
the law.
57.
She’s one tough
mother.
58.
She fought for health care for 9/11
first responders as a U.S. senator—and she’s been a vocal advocate for a
permanent renewal of the Zadroga Act.
59.
It’s time to end for-profit private
prisons in America.
60.
The Affordable Care Act is
working—but we are going to strengthen it by giving a new tax cut to cover
out-of-pocket expenses and taking on prescription drug costs
61. Hillary will defend and fight to restore collective
bargaining rights for workers.
62.
She knows historically black colleges
and universities (HBCUs) serve an important public mission and will make a
significant commitment to them.
63.
We need to end the sentencing
disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
64.
Because it’s time to end conversion
“therapy” for LGBT minors.
65.
Hillary will put a stop to
Republicans’ systematic efforts to stop millions of people from voting.
66.
We need a president who will fight to
restore the protections of the Voting Rights Act after they were gutted by the
Supreme Court.
67.Hillary
helped negotiate the toughest sanctions Iran has ever faced.
68.
She’s earned the wrath of the gun
lobby, Iran, pharmaceutical companies, and special interests—and that should
tell you something about who she’s fighting for.
69.
She has a plan to invest in American
manufacturing and revitalize communities that have lost manufacturing jobs.
70.
She knows what’s
going on in Laos.
71. She believes we should let families buy into the
Affordable Care Act health care exchanges regardless of immigration status.
72.Prison
is not a substitute for treatment for drug addiction and mental health
issues—Hillary knows that and will do something about it.
73.We
can create a new national standard of no fewer than 20 days of early in-person
voting in every state.
74.Because
those at the top are doing just fine. It’s your family who needs a fighter in
the White House.
75.Hillary
has a plan to combat America’s quiet epidemic of substance abuse—including
prevention, treatment, and supporting our first responders.
76.In
the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: “I’ve never met
anyone more prepared to be president.”
77. She has a plan to make our financial system fairer
and more accountable.
78.
High-quality K–12 education needs to
be a priority for every child in America.
79.As
secretary of state, Hillary lobbied for the first-ever U.N. Human Rights
Council resolution on LGBT human rights.
80.
She made LGBT rights a priority of
U.S. foreign policy.
81.
In the words of the Advocate,
Hillary has an “awesome LGBT agenda” to protect and expand LGBT rights.
82.
She’s not afraid to stand up to
discriminatory attempts to roll back voting rights in places like Alabama.
83.
Hillary knows Muslim Americans are
helping our communities succeed and are our first, last, and best line of
defense against radical jihadism.
84.
Hillary will defend marriage
equality—and appoint Supreme Court justices who believe in equality for all, no
matter who you are or who you love.
85.
She will provide funding to make sure
body cameras are available to every police department in America to increase
accountability on both sides of the lens.
Hillary knows Muslim Americans are helping our communities succeed and
are our first, last, and best line of defence against radical jihadism
86.
She’ll expand on-campus child care
and scholarships to help student parents balance going to school with raising a
child.
87.
Her first major address as a
presidential candidate was a call to end the “era of mass incarceration.”
88.
She’ll fight to end racial profiling
in America.
89.
She’ll expand on-campus child care
and scholarships to help student parents balance going to school with raising a
child.
90.
Her first major address as a
presidential candidate was a call to end the “era of mass incarceration.”
91. She’ll fight to end racial profiling in America.
92.
She’ll hold irresponsible gun dealers
and manufacturers fully accountable if they endanger Americans—and that
includes repealing the gun industry’s unique immunity protection.
93.
She’ll work to reduce the number of
nuclear weapons in the world.
94.
She worked to expand the Family
Medical Leave Act, allowing families of those wounded in service to their
country to take leave in order to care for their loved ones.
95.
Family members who care for ailing
parents and grandparents could use some tax relief.
96.
She has called out the Republicans’
offensive, inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric because she knows it’s against our
values as Americans—and our national security.
97.Because
when a company does well, the employees who helped produce those profits
deserve a share in them—not just CEOs.
98.
She believes we should use
alternatives to incarceration for low-level, nonviolent marijuana users, and
she will reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance.
99.
She’s not afraid to to call out
Republicans for blocking efforts to keep guns from suspected terrorists.
100.
She helped lead the charge to raise
the minimum wage as a senator.
101.
Building international coalitions
advances our values, interests, and makes the world safer. Hillary is the only
candidate who
will respect our alliances—and has actually done it.
102.
She worked across the aisle to expand
health care access for members of the National Guard and reservists—making sure
those who served and their families had access to health care when they
returned home.
103.
We should put
American families over the gun lobby—and Hillary is not afraid to stand up to
the NRA.
104.
There are cities across the country
that are already leading on climate change—so she’ll launch a Clean Energy
Challenge that will form new partnerships with states, cities, and rural
communities.
105.
She’ll “ban the box” so people who
have a past conviction can get a fair shot at employment.
106.
When Hillary was secretary of state,
the U.S. extended antiretroviral therapy—which helps HIV/AIDS patients live
longer, healthier lives—to 78 countries.
107.
It should be easier for businesses to
train and hire apprentices.
108.
The nation’s leading advocates for
gun violence prevention have said Hillary’s plan is the right strategy.
109.
Because women’s rights are human
rights.
110.
Because even when people didn’t want
her to go to China and stand up for human rights at the 1995 U.N. Conference on
Women in Beijing, she did it anyway.
111.
Because a woman’s place is in the
White House.
112.
Because all families should be have
access to high-quality, affordable child care.
113.
Hillary will make sure people living
with disabilities have access to the same opportunities as every American.
114.
Because an AIDS-free generation is within
reach.
115.
Hillary is the only candidate with a
plan to expand opportunity in low-income communities and make housing more
affordable.
116.
Because mental health should never be
stigmatized and we should remove barriers to accessing care.
117.
Because she’s spent 30 years in
public service—creating change for all Americans.
118.
We can create a National Service
Reserve so that Americans can enlist to help communities in need.
119.
Because we need to put an end to
campus sexual assault.
120.
Because people like these folks are
on Team Hillary:
121.
Because rural communities are the
backbone of this country—and Hillary has a plan to make sure they reap the
rewards of our economic successes.
122.
Because she will make environmental
justice a central priority.
123.
Because every kid in every ZIP code
deserves quality schools.
124.
Because she’s not afraid to stand up
to bullies.
125.
Hillary will make it easier to start
and grow a small business—and easier for small businesses to thrive.
126.
Because she will protect Roe
v. Wade and women’s health.
127.
Hillary will invest in STEM and
computer science education—because we need to prepare our kids for 21st-century
jobs.
128.
Because we need to do more to support
the millions of Americans living with autism and their families.
129.
Because no child should have to grow
up in poverty.
130.
Donald Trump. Enough said.
