Clinton in North Carolina Hits GOP on HB2: ‘I Think the American Dream Is Big Enough for Everybody’

Clinton Says HB2 Tells People ‘You Know, You’re Not Really Wanted. You’re Not Really Part of Us’

Fresh off Monday night’s stunning debate win an animated and upbeat Hillary Clinton took on Governor Pat McCrory and Republican lawmakers over their anti-LGBT law as she spoke to a North Carolina audience Tuesday afternoon.

“The very mean-spirited, wrong-headed decision by your legislature and governor to pass and sign House Bill 2 has hurt this state,” the former secretary of state told supporters. “But more than that, it’s hurt people.”

“It has sent a message to so many people. ‘You know, you’re not really wanted. You’re not really part of us,'” Clinton said of HB2.

“I think the American dream is big enough for everybody,” Clinton professed.

HB2 was drafted, passed and signed into law in under 12 hours in response to Charlotte’s extending rights to LGBT people. HB2 bans transgender people from using restroom that correspond with their gender identity. It also bans local governments from passing laws dealing with the minimum wage, employment discrimination, or public accommodations.

She also slammed North Carolina Republicans for their attempts to disenfranchise minority voters.

“The other thing your governor and legislature did is everything they could to make voting harder for people,” she said. “Now, they were pretty blatant about it — make it harder for people of color, make it harder for the elderly and make it harder for the young.” 

A federal court unequivocally ruled North Carolina Republicans passed into law anti-voting legislation specifically designed to make it harder for Black people, who by large margins vote for Democrats, to vote.

The RealClearPolitics polling average puts Donald Trump slightly ahead of Secretary Clinton, by 0.8%, with Libertarian Gary Johnson factored in.