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As Ted Cruz rallied the GOPs conservative wing with his Monday announcement that hes running for president, all-but-declared Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton quietly tried to calm her partys restive progressive wing, segments of which are actively seeking an alternative in 2016.

The former secretary of state spoke at the Washington headquarters of the liberal Center for American Progress think tank at an urban policy-focused event co-hosted by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees union. She stuck largely to policy, praising, for example, a pre-Kindergarten program championed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a darling of many progressives wary of Clinton.

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Clinton in particular zeroed in on the growing gap between the rich and the poor. One of the biggest issues we face is income inequality, combined with wage stagnation, the former senator said.

Cruzs announcement at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, sucked up much of the days political oxygen. Still, Clintons appearance 200 miles away was a chance for her to calm some of the jitters among progressives, many of whom fear Clinton is too close to Wall Street and wont follow through on their priorities.

On Sunday, for instance, The Boston Globe editorial board urged Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, another favorite of progressives, to run in 2016. Warren insists she wont run, but many liberal groups are still agitating for her to do so.

Clinton is currently polling far ahead of any potential challengers for the Democratic nomination, but she does have potential competition aside from Warren.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley has recently been traveling through the influential early-voting states and ratcheting up his own rhetoric against major financial institutions. OMalleys political action committee sent out a fundraising email focused on Wall Street reform just as Clinton was speaking on Monday morning.

Clinton, who avoided any mention of her 2016 ambitions on Monday, at one point said it was important to break out of the very unproductive discussion that weve had for too long where people are just in their ideological bunkers having arguments.

She was joined on the panel by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, often mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice, and the think tanks president, Neera Tanden, who served as policy director on Clintons unsuccessful 2008 White House campaign.

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All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, on Monday in Kaduna continued his campaign with a one-million-man rally.

The one-million-man march grounded the state capital as supporters of the former minister took over the major streets in the metropolis.

But the rally later turned violent as APC supporters clashed with supporters of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

No death was recorded but some people were reportedly injured.

The APC supporters tore posters and pulled down billboards of PresidentGoodluck Jonathan, his running mate, Namadi Sambo as well as that of Governor Mukhtar Yero.

This, according to an eyewitness was in retaliation for the posters and billboards of the APC presidential candidate, Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), and that of El-Rufai that were allegedly pulled down by PDP supporters in the state capital.

Our correspondent gathered that trouble started when security operatives stopped the march, which took off from the Ahmadu Bello Stadium.

The APC supporters were asked to move from there to Kaduna International Trade Fair Complex on Kaduna Zaria Expressway.

This did not go down well with the supporters, who were chanting changi(change), changi (change) dole, venting their anger on anything in sight that had the label of the ruling party.

Things almost got out of control at the popular NEPA Roundabout when some supporters of the APC allegedly attempted to scale the fence of the Goodluck/Sambo Campaign office but they were met with stiff resistance from the PDP supporters, who were on hand, leading to a free-for-all.

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The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation on Monday accused the President Goodluck Jonathan campaign organisation of frittering away N1tr of tax payers money to sponsor hate campaigns to tarnish the image of leaders of the APC.

According to the APCPCO, the money was spent on advertorials in newspapers as well as sponsorship of damaging documentaries on the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), and other party leaders.

Director of Media and Publicity of the APC campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu, said this at a press conference at the partys campaign headquarters in Abuja.

However, the Peoples Democratic Party denied the allegation and accused the APC of paranoia and desperation in its futile attempt to claim power.

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, said, It is now clear that the APC has nothing else to tell Nigerians, who have made up their minds to return President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP. Ask them, how much is Nigerias budget? They should talk on issues and stop this propaganda.

Shehu said, A panoramic view of how much Nigerias resources Jonathan and PDP have laboriously and wantonly spent on print, broadcast and social media campaigns just to damage the unassailable credential of Gen Buharis integrity will confound any casual observer of the polity in recent times.

An average cost of a wrap around in Tier 1 and Tier 2 newspapers in Nigeria is between N15m to N20m and the Jonathan campaign buys an average of five wrap around and front pages in a day in the last three months coupled with the hundreds of billions that have been spent on negative TV exposures on AIT, NTA and other television and radio stations across the country.

We had expected that a President that has spent about six years in office, with the revenues more than what all governments before him had received, will run on a record of performance rather than peddling lies and hate media campaigns that are accentuating ethnic and religious tensions in the country.

The APC campaign also alleged that Jonathan had been criss-crossing Nigeria giving an average of N50m each to traditional rulers, most especially in the South-West and the northern parts of Nigeria.

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