[caption id=”attachment_136544″ align=”aligncenter” width=”2000″] Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton poses for a selfie with Olivia Keller, after speaking to supporters during a campaign house party, Sunday June 14, 2015 in Burlington, Iowa. (John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye via AP)
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Hillary Clinton became the latest Democrat to pull the student loan debt card ahead of 2016, as she made a play for the youth vote in her campaign relaunch rally Saturday.
During her speech, she vowed to take steps to help students afford higher education.
She said that a measure of success is “how many young people go to college without drowning in debt,” according to Inside Higher Ed.
“Let’s make college affordable and available to all… and lift the crushing burden of student debt,” Clinton continued.
She is also expected to follow in her fellow Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders’ footsteps and endorse free public higher education or “debt-free college” within the next month.
“Debt-free college” is the Democrats’ new siren call to youths ahead of 2016.
These resolutions focus on big picture ideas, but no detailed proposals have actually been brought up that might help students. They call upon the federal government to invest more in higher education with the hope that tuition costs will go down in return.
The left relies on the youth vote and since they don’t have a candidate like President Obama that will help inspire them to turn out in droves, they are relying on gimmicks and empty promises to try and attract college-age voters.
