Clinton makes stop on the South Oval with eyes on the Oval Office

After a half hour of introductions by political figures like Columbus mayor Andrew Ginther, Franklin County Prosecutor Candidate Zack Klein, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, and Senator Candidate Ted Strickland, cheers and chants from the crowd swelled as the potential first female president, Hillary Clinton, took her place on the stage set up on the South Oval on Monday evening.

She immediately got down to business, asking attendees, “Did you see that debate last night?” and describing it as “a clear display of what is at stake in this election.” Clinton then went on to hit the major Trump points anyone who has seen recent headlines would expect: “locker room banter,” his treatment of women, and his use of Chinese steel in his construction projects.

But that wasn’t all she had to say about Trump. Because he kept bringing up her past in last night debate, Clinton brought the audience into a timeline of her achievements penned against Trump’s downfalls starting in the 1970s – “I was working in discrimination [working to get equal education for children with disabilities] and he was being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination” – to 2011 – “On the day that I was in the situation room watching the raid that brought Osama Bin Laden to justice, he was hosting ‘Celebrity Apprentice'” – with a final statement of, “So if he wants to talk about what we’ve been doing the last thirty years, bring it on.”

Clinton probably didn’t feel that way when Trump continuously brought up her emails in Sunday’s debate and will not feel that way if her previous scandals like Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation, Vince Foster’s suicide, and Whitewater resurface against her, but for now, she is unthreatened by her past.

Clinton then transitioned into her philosophies that followers of her and/or the election all know and love by now: creating new jobs through domestic improvements (highways, airports, a “manufacturing renaissance”), making the wealthy paying more and a promise not to raise taxes for the middle class, “smart and fair trade,” non-privatization of social security, and, lastly, her joint education efforts with Senator Bernie Sanders to lower the cost of college with students from families that make less than $125,000 a year attending school tuition-free and students with families that fall above that cut off attending school debt-free (“pay what you can afford,” as she puts it.).

She ended her speech by emphasizing tomorrow’s registration deadline and the opportunity to vote early, starting on October 12th, and with her famous line, “Love trumps hate.”