Hillary Clinton mentioned Olympic champion Laurie Hernandez among nine Hispanic stars — from civil rights activists to Gloria Estefan —while speaking at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute on Thursday.
“Today, as you know, we’re in the midst of Hispanic Heritage Month,” the presidential candidate said (at the 5:30 mark here). “In classrooms across America, children will study Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Julian and Joaquin Castro, Justice Sotomayor, Roberto Clemente and Laurie Hernandez, Gloria Estefan and Lin-Manuel Miranda and countless others.”
Hernandez, 16, might have missed the name drop as she was performing at the first stop of a post-Olympic USA Gymnastics tour in Spokane, Wash.