Clinton Rallies After Democrats Debate
LAS VEGAS -- Just minutes after wrapping up a two-hour debate, Hillary Clinton attended a rally late last night where she was introduced by "Ugly Betty" star, America Ferrera.
The Clinton campaign has been focused on getting Hispanics to turn out and caucus this Saturday and trying to attract Latino votes through prominent Hispanic surrogates like Ferrera.
After her third-place showing in the Iowa caucuses, the Clinton campaign isn't taking any chances and she urged the crowd at Desert Pines High School to bring as many as five people to their caucus site.
The boisterous crowd of nearly 700 people cheered when Clinton said she is trying to get the attention of the White House to focus on issuessuch as the economy.
"Until we can have a moving van to move out Vice President Cheney and President Bush, we have to try to pay better attention to the economy!"
Clinton spent most of the time attacking President Bush and rarely engaging her Democratic opponents.
"I think the job of the president is to set big goals and bring the country together. But it's also to manage the government so you get the results you need out of it. We've gotta have a president who is hands on saying to everybody in these bureaucracies 'You're accountable to the American people. I want to see you in my office tomorrow,'" Clinton said.
Clinton added that had Hurricane Katrina happened on her watch "we would've been on it, we would've been taking care of people. It was a disgrace the way the President of the United States mishandled that terrible disaster!"
Clinton is scheduled to campaign in parts of Nevada today including stops in Las Vegas and Reno.