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Title: Jim Webb Announces For President
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U.S. News & World Report
URL Source: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ru ... m-webb-announces-for-president
Published: Jul 2, 2015
Author: David Catanese
Post Date: 2015-07-02 18:15:39 by Hondo68
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Keywords: less interventionist policy, Vietnam veteran
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Former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia announced Thursday he plans to seek the Democratic nomination for president. Jim Webb, a former U.S. senator and Vietnam veteran, announced his candidacy for president Thursday, becoming the fifth Democrat in the 2016 contest. "I know that more than one candidate in this process intends to raise at least a billion dollars," Webb told supporters via e-mail. "But our country needs a fresh approach to solving the problems that confront us and too often unnecessarily divide us. We need to shake the hold of these shadow elites on our political process." A vehement opponent of the invasion of Iraq, Webb, who served as secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan, will push for a less interventionist policy in the Middle East, instead favoring cultivating "vigorous relationships with our treaty partners and our allies" to defeat terrorist threats. Domestically, his focus will be on blue-collar voters and the economic inequality they have experienced over the past decade. To remedy to gap, he's proposing to revamp the nation's tax code. He's also been a loud voice on the need to reform the nation's criminal justice system. "This isn’t a political issue, it’s a leadership issue. It’s costing us billions of dollars. It’s wasting lives, often beginning at a very early age, creating career criminals rather than curing them. It’s not making our neighborhoods safer," Webb wrote Thursday. Webb begins his candidacy just like the three other Democrats attempting to challenge Hillary Clinton: a long shot. He registered just 1 percent in the latest Iowa Democratic caucus poll. But he has been logging more time in the Hawkeye State, even racking up more visits than Clinton, according to the U.S. News Presidential Tracker. Poster Comment: It seems like he's more conservative and pro-American than most of the Republicans?The former Democratic senator from Virginia will seek support from blue-collar and rural America.
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