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Thu Mar 10, 2016, 04:45 PM Mar 2016

At Tampa campaign stop, Hillary Clinton takes aim at Gov. Rick Scott


TAMPA — She could end up facing Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, but on Thursday former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made Florida Gov. Rick Scott her target of choice.

"It makes absolutely no sense," Clinton said of Scott's 2011 decision to turn down $2.4 billion in federal funds to develop high-speed rail between Tampa and Orlando.

She also mocked the Scott administration's directive to state employees not to use the words "climate change" and pledged to support renewable energy in Florida. When Republicans say they can't talk climate change because they're not scientists, there's a solution to that, she said: Talk to scientists.

Clinton portrayed her likely Republican rivals as ready to roll back abortion rights, marriage equality and Planned Parenthood, while giving the National Rifle Association anything it wants.

So when people ask her who she wants to run against, Clinton said, "given what they've all said, I will take any one of them."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-hold-tampa-rallies-today/2268676
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