Hillary Clinton Slams Jeb Bush's Record in Urban League Speech

She doesn't mention his name before African-American activists in Florida, but the attack is hardly veiled.

Hillary Takes a Swipe at Jeb’s ‘Right to Rise’

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Hillary Clinton didn't use Jeb Bush's name on Friday, but her attack on the former Florida governor was hardly veiled as she spoke ahead of him at a gathering of African-American activists in Florida.

“I don’t think you can credibly say that everyone has a right to rise and then say you’re for phasing out Medicare or for repealing Obamacare. People can’t rise if they can’t afford health care,” Clinton said at the National Urban League's annual conference in Fort Lauderdale, alluding to Right to Rise, the super-PAC backing Bush's candidacy. “They can’t rise if the minimum wage is too low to live on. They can’t rise if their governor makes it harder for them to get a college education. And you cannot seriously talk about the right to rise and support laws that deny the right to vote.”