Hillary Rodham Clinton did not spend much time dwelling on her latest primary setbacks tonight, flying to Texas -- which has its primary March 4 and is the biggest state that has not yet voted -- and made a confident and assertive speech before cheering supporters in El Paso.
The city is located in the 16th Congressional District, one of the least affluent and most heavily Hispanic of the state's 32 districts. And if Clinton is to right her currently stumbling campaign, she will need a powerful turnout among Hispanics and lower-income voters, whom exit polls show have been among her strongest constituencies in the campaign so far.
Her remarks, excerpted below, focused heavily on the economy and other kitchen table issues:
* "We're going to give our young people not only confidence and optimism,but real results."
* "As I travel around the country, I know from what peole tell me, a lot of hard-working folks are really concerned ... I hear the mothers who tell me they don't know what they are going to do because they don't have health care ... I've been in homes of families on the brink of losing the American dream ... They are looking for someone to say 'This is wrong and I will help you.' ... "I meet all of the people who want to solve the problems, the young people who are focused on a better future and want to make it happen."
* "Every single one of us knows that tomorrow can be better than today."
* "I see an America where everyone willing to work hard has a job and a rising income."
* "I see an America where health care is a moral right, not a privilege."
* I will end the unfunded mandate known as No Child Left Behind and together we will come up with a 21st century education system for our children."
* I see an America where every young person who is willing to work hard will be able to go to college."
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