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BLACK PRESS EXCLUSIVE
HILLARY CLINTON’S MESSAGE
TO NC’S BLACK COMMUNITY
By Cash Michaels
Contintributor
[RALEIGH] In an
exclusive interview with North
Carolina’s African-American
press, Hillary Clinton said even
though she is running to benefit
all Americans, the first woman
expected to be elected president
of the United States on Nov.
8 th does have a special focus
on working with the African-
American community and its
leaders - both local and national
- to improve employment,
business, education, and other
important quality of life issues.
“I want to pay particular
attention to Americans who feel
left out and left behind by the
economy, or the situation in their
communities,” the former First
Lady, senator and US secretary
of State said Sunday at St.
Augustine’s in Raleigh, during
perhaps one of her last sit-down
interviews of the campaign.
“I’ve laid out a really
extensive agenda for African-
Americans, starting with
improving the economy so that
its producing more jobs
for more people; raising the
national minimum wage -
[we’ve] got mostly women
earning minimum wage, often
times being the sole support of
their children, and they deserve
a better economic opportunity,”
she said. Mrs. Clinton also cited
more affordable housing as a
need.
She maintained that getting
equal pay for women as a
“particularly big issue for
African-American women,”
adding that black female small
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is joined by mothers of black
men who died from gun violence, Geneva Reed-Veal, left, mother of Sandra Bland,
Lucia McBath, second from left, mother of Jordan Davis, Sybrina Fulton, center,
mother of Trayvon Martin, Maria Hamilton, second from right, mother of Dontre
Hamilton, and Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner as she speaks during Sunday
service at Union Baptist church, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, in Durham, (AP Photo/
Looking past Trump, Clinton
aims to help other Democrats
By Josh Lederman and
Catherine Lucey
(AP) - Newly confident and
buoyant in the polls, Hillary
Clinton is looking past Donald
Trump while widening her mis
sion to include helping Demo
crats seize the Senate and chip
away at the Republican-con
trolled House.
Though Trump’s campaign
insisted Sunday it was prema
ture to count him out, it’s Clin
ton whose path to winning the
White House has only grown
wider in the race’s final weeks.
Even longtime Republican
strongholds such as Utah and
Arizona suddenly appear within
her reach on Nov. 8, enticing
Democrats to campaign hard in
territory they haven’t won for
decades.
The shifting political map has
freed Clinton and her well-fund
ed campaign to spend time and
money helping other Democrats
in competitive races. Clinton
said she didn’t “even think about
responding” to Tramp anymore
and would instead spend the fi
nal weeks on the road “empha
sizing the importance of electing
Democrats down the ballot.”
“We’re running a coordinated
campaign, working hard with
gubernatorial, Senate and House
candidates,” said Robby Mook,
Clinton’s campaign manager.
And for good reason.
After a merciless two-year
campaign, the next president
will face the daunting task of
governing a bitterly divided na
tion. If Clinton wins, her pros
pects for achieving her goals
will be greatly diminished un
less her victory is accompanied
by major Democratic gains in
Congress.
“We’ve got to do the hard and
maybe most important work of
healing, healing our country,”
Clinton said Sunday at Union
Baptist Church in Durham,
North Carolina.
For Democrats, there’s an
other reason to try to run up the
score. With Trump warning he
may contest the race’s outcome
if he loses, Clinton’s campaign
is hoping for an overwhelm
ing Democratic victory that
would undermine any attempt by
Tramp to claim the election had
been stolen from him.
In a rare admission of fal
libility by the typically boastful
Tramp, his campaign acknowl
edged he’s trailing Clinton as
Election Day nears.
“We are behind,” Tramp
campaign manager Kellyanne
Conway said. Still, she added,
“We’re not giving up. We know
we can win this.”
Conway laid out in granular
detail Trump’s potential path to
winning: victories in Florida,
Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada
and Ohio, to start. If Tramp pre
vents Arizona and Georgia from
falling to Democrats and adds in
some combination of Colorado,
Virginia, New Hampshire and
Pennsylvania, he could reach the
270 electoral votes needed, Con
way said.
President Barack Obama joins Gwen Stefani on stage after her State Dinner
performance on the South Lawn of the White House, Oct. 18,2016. (Official White
House Photo by Pete Souza)
It won’t be easy. A current
Associated Press analysis of
polling, demographic trends
and other campaign data rates
Virginia as solidly Democratic,
while Colorado, New Hampshire
and Pennsylvania are all leaning
Democratic. Arizona, remark
ably, is a toss-up.
Campaigning Sunday in
Florida, Tramp called for vot
ers to elect a Republican House
and Senate that would “swiftly
enact” his priorities, which in
clude overhauling taxes, restor
ing higher spending on defense
and repealing the Affordable
Care Act.
“We can enact our whole plan
in the first 100 days - and we
will,” Trump said.
If Clinton wins, Democrats
would need a net gain of four
Senate seats to retake the ma
jority. House control would be
much harder. Democrats would
need a 30-seat gain, a feat they
haven’t accomplished in roughly
four decades.
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Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, left, speaks to Cash Michaels, with an exclusive
interview on issues affecting the African American community.
Historic African-American town,
Princeville, slowly reopens after Matthew
By Martha Waggoner
RALEIGH (AP) - Two
weeks after she fled her
home in Princeville with
her husband and three chil
dren, Susan Morris returned
to find the only major dam
age left by Hurricane Mat
thew was some damage to
her roof.
“Blessed. Amazing.
Thankful,” Morris, 59, said
in a phone interview Oct.
22 when asked how it felt
to walk back into the home
they left on Oct. 8.
Morris and her hus
band, Dennis, and their
three children stayed in a
home with another daugh
ter, the daughter’s husband
and their two children in a
three-bedroom, one-bath
house after they evacuated.
Dennis Morris has multiple
sclerosis and typically uses
a wheelchair, but got by
with a walker during the
evacuation, she said.
Residents of the South
ern Terrace neighborhood,
where about 25 percent of
the town’s 2,200 residents
live, were allowed to return
home Oct. 21, Mayor Bob
bie Jones said. About half
the town may be allowed
to return Oct. 24 with the
rest of Princeville likely re
opening Oct. 25 or 26, he
said.
Princeville, founded by
freed slaves and chartered
in 1885, was inundated in
1999 by Hurricane Floyd,
which left up to 11 feet of
water standing in the town
for nine days. Hurricane
Matthew’s floodwaters
from the Tar River went
around the 37-foot-high
dike, rebuilt after Floyd,
but reached only 36.1 feet
and didn’t breach it, Jones
said.
The National Guard has
pumped millions of gallons
of water out of the town,
which now needs to repair
the sewer system before the
rest of the residents can re
turn, he said. Inspections of
homes also continue.
The flooding wasn’t as
bad as Jones had feared,
with water about 7 feet
high on Main Street, he
said. Even the artifacts in
the town museum are safe,
he said. And he believes
that once officials receive
federal money to extend
the dike and raise it another
5 feet, this sort of storm
won’t damage the town
again.
Meanwhile, The N.C.
African American Heritage
Commission is collecting
supplies to help Princeville.
The most-needed items in
clude hand tools, toiletries,
non-perishable food, clean
ing supplies, new toys and
books for children, face
masks, rubber gloves and
new undergarments of all
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