NEW WINDSOR – Former President Bill Clinton was at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor yesterday and he got a tour from Congressman Pat Ryan, a West Point graduate who led troops in the Middle East.
Clinton was impressed with the exhibits that tell the stories of those killed or wounded in combat and had praise for Ryan.
“If the voters send him to Congress from this district, he will be the first West Point graduate ever to represent West Point in Congress,” he said.
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With the election just days away, Ryan said our democracy is under threat.
“And the people who were wounded in combat fighting for our democracy would want us to be fighting now here at home as we’re seeing threats to voting rights, as we’re seeing threats to reproductive rights, so this all ties together and for me, having gone to West Point a few miles from here, having grown up here, to see the Hudson Valley now at the center of the fight for our democracy, it was an honor to have the president here to be with us in that fight,” Ryan said.
Ryan is being challenged by right wing Republican Colin Schmitt.
Clinton also stumped Wednesday with Democratic congressional hopeful Josh Riley in Sullivan County. He is in a battle with Republican Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro.
Days ago Clinton was in Nyack campaigning for Representative Sean Patrick Maloney.
