A challenger appears? Ex-Maryland governor takes on Clinton in presidential nomination race

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Governor of Maryland Martin O'Malley (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

Martin O’Malley, the former governor of the state of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore, has stepped forward as a challenger to Hillary Clinton in the race to the Democratic nomination for the 2016 US presidential election.

O’Malley, 52, announced
his running at a rally on Saturday in Baltimore, the city where
he had been mayor for eight years until January 2007. After that,
he served two terms as Maryland’s governor.

During Hillary Clinton’s previous campaign, O’Malley was her
staunch supporter. He was among the first to endorse her
candidacy in 2008, and one of the major fundraisers for her
campaign.

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Now, O’Malley appears to be trying to play on the differences
between his and Clinton’s approaches. A supporter of same-sex
marriage and an overhaul of American migration laws, he positions
himself as a more liberal alternative to Clinton.

Without attacking Clinton directly, O’Malley has challenged her
policies on trade and Wall Street, among other things.
“Powerful, wealthy special interests here at home have used
our government to create, in our own country, an economy that is
leaving a majority of our people behind,”
he said at the
rally in Baltimore.

“Well, I’ve got news for the bullies of Wall Street,”
O’Malley added. “The presidency is not a crown to be passed
back and forth by you between two royal families.”

However, according to a March Washington Post-ABC poll, O’Malley only had the support of 1
percent of the public, compared to Hillary Clinton’s 66 percent.

Apart from Clinton, O’Malley will face Vermont Junior Senator
Bernie Sanders in the democratic primaries. According to the poll
above, Sanders’ support is about 4 percent.

O’Malley has time until the primaries kick off in February 2016
to reverse his fortunes using his progressive rhetoric, or the
celtic rock skills of his band “O’Malley’s March”.

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