Clinton became the first woman to formally accept the Democratic party’s nomination last night. “He wants to divide us from the rest of the world, and each other”, Clinton said. But the biggest moment on the convention stage was when President Barack Obama urged voters to “do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me”.
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She promised to “liberate millions of people who have student debt”, raise the minimum wage, improve healthcare and support domestic manufacturing.
Clinton was scheduled to speak Thursday night, and was expected to discuss how to boost the economy, improve national security and unite a divided nation.
The president reportedly went through six drafts of his convention speech, in which he said he was “even more optimistic about the future of America than ever before”. Since then, the powerful group has been one of Clinton’s most vocal supporters.
“Bernie Sanders and I will work together to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for all”, Clinton said.
“Every day we listen to eight hours’ worth of speeches advertising and endorsing Hillary Clinton”, said Sanders delegate Ava Sharifi.
She said she was happy for boys and men, too, because when a barrier falls, it clears the way for all.
A separate Reuters/Ipsos survey that provided respondents with the option to choose from Clinton, Trump, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, has Clinton and Trump tied at 37 percentage points. Bernie Sanders, by about 3.7 million, according to RealClearPolitics.
“Hillary Clinton talks about unity, about E Pluribus Unum, but her globalist agenda denies American citizens the protections to which they are all entitled – tearing us apart”.
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She said: “Now Donald Trump says, and this is a quote, “I know more about ISIS than the generals do”. “I am getting hit and they don’t mean it and there’s a lot of lies being told”, he said. “She said that what anxious President Kennedy during that very unsafe time was that a war might be started, not by big men with self-control and restraint, but by little men, the ones moved by fear and pride”, she said.
