Bill Clinton plugs Kay Hagan in NC

RALEIGH, N.C. — Former President Bill Clinton joined some of the biggest Democratic names in North Carolina to fire up a crowd of supporters here Friday afternoon with a simple message: Get as many people as you can to the polls, or else be prepared for Sen. Kay Hagan’s defeat and a GOP takeover of the Senate.

Clinton — along with former Gov. Jim Hunt, the longest serving governor of the state, and Reps. David Price and G.K. Butterfield — hailed Hagan as the choice for working families, women and minorities. The former president name-checked issues like education, equal pay for women, voting rights, the influx of money in politics and the minimum wage to loud cheers from the crowd of about 1,300 — some dressed in Halloween costumes — at a high school gym in Raleigh.

Calling the race between Hagan and Republican challenger Thom Tillis as the most crucial contest North Carolina has seen in a generation, Democrats warned the crowd with four days left to go that if they didn’t show up — and bring three other people with them, as Hagan challenged — Tillis would go to Washington with a Republican majority and push an “extremist” agenda similar to what Republicans, or the “wrecking crew,” pushed in the state legislature.

“Here we are in the most expensive Senate race in the country, where you are being invited to tell yourselves and to tell the rest of America whether you’re going back to being the state of the future — where we work together and grow together,” Clinton said during his roughly-20-minute-long speech. “Or whether you chose to be a state that goes back to trickle-down economics, where we grow apart and fight like crazy.”



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