Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on course to November showdown

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on course to November showdown

Courtesy : Chidanand Rajghatta , The Times of India

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stayed on course to a November presidential Election Day showdown, winning at least three states each of the five that held party polls on what was described as "smackdown" Tuesday because it demolished the also-rans.

Hillary Clinton staunched the loss of Michigan last week to Bernie Sanders to win Ohio and regain her momentum in the Rust Belt. She also comfortably won Florida and North Carolina, and appeared to have edged out Sanders in Illinois and Missouri to effectively end his quest for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton leads 1094 to 774 in the race to the 2383 delegates needed to clinch the party nomination, but she has backing of a large number of "super-delegates" in a system that has earned the moniker "UnDemocratic Party" for her organization.

Having made a rousing challenge, Sanders' slim hope rests on snagging enough delegates in Illinois and Missouri, two states where he was competitive but trailed 49-51 with 99 per cent votes counted. Considering the party machinery seems to back Clinton, he would appear to stand almost no chance.

Hillary Clinton Wanted to be President for both the Successful and the Struggling

Hillary Clinton Wanted to be President for both the Successful and the Struggling 

In her 2016 presidential election campaign at North Charleston in South Carolina, Mrs. Hillary Clinton uttered that "I want to be a president for both the successful and the struggling. And right now the struggling need more help."

Hillary Clinton Supports for Higher Pay for Workers for their contribution to productivity of organization and strongly condemns high CEO pay packages

In her 2016 presidential election campaign at Iowa on May 18, 2015, Mrs. Hillary Clinton emphasised that we need to get back into the habit of actually rewarding workers with increases in their pay checks for the increases in productivity and profitability that they have helped to bring about. You know, Warren Buffett has said it, but so have a lot of other people: There’s something wrong when the average American CEO makes 300 times more than the typical American worker.

Mrs. Hillary Clinton remarks was based on the EPI (Economic Policy Institute) study, released in June 2014 that average compensation for CEOs of the top 350 U.S. firms in 2013 was $15.2 million. That’s 295.9 times higher than the compensation paid to the typical workers at those firms, the study concluded.

Hillary Clinton Concerns more for working classes like Nurses and Truck Drivers than CEOs

She also informed that there’s something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers that she saw on I-80. She also found that there’s something wrong when students and their families have to go deeply into debt to be able to get the education and skills they need in order to make the best of their own lives."

Building Economy for Tomorrow and Strengthen Families and Communities

Addressing several high school and college students at the round-table, Mrs. Hillary Clinton said that she wants "to be the champion who goes to bat for Americans in four big areas. We need to build the economy of tomorrow, not yesterday. We need to strengthen families and communities, because that’s where it all starts. We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all, even if that takes a constitutional amendment. And we need to protect our country from the threats that we see, and the ones that are on the horizon, she said.