Washington, DC — At tonight’s debate, all eight Republicans on stage showed us their playing cards. Instead of offering any new economic proposals to aid middle-class and working families, the Republicans still have the deck stacked in favor of those at the top.
“Republicans spent more time than ever before at a debate talking about Hillary Clinton, mentioning her a whopping 47 times. The Republicans still have not yet offered anything but tired and failed economic policies of the past that will hurt every day Americans. While Hillary Clinton has proposed economic policies that encourage job creation and invest in families and communities, Republican candidates for president continued tonight to deal Americans a bad hand by advocating for trickle-down economics, tax breaks for the rich, and more extreme and out of date policies that have failed us in the past,” said Brad Woodhouse, President of Correct The Record.
“Tonight these Republicans confirmed they are willing to gamble with the livelihoods of hard-working Americans for political gain. In these debates about the economy, ‘Hillary Clinton’ was mentioned six times more often than the ‘middle class’ – if that doesn’t make it clear where the Republican candidates priorities are, I don’t know what will.”
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College Affordability: 0
Equal Pay: 0
Middle Class: 8
Income Inequality: 7
Hillary Clinton: 47