In the wake of back-to-back political conventions, here are three things we’ve learned about the political landscape that Clinton and Trump will be running on in the most unpredictable election in a generation. The newly-minted Democratic nominee told the watching world just what America’s future with a female president will be like – and how there may not BE a future if Donald Trump is in charge!
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Clinton also took on Trump’s business record, which she said includes stiffing contractors and opting to make Trump-branded products in other countries. Whether this social media activity will amount to a significant convention bump remains to be seen. “And yes, if you believe that your working mother, wife, sister, or daughter deserves equal pay – join us!”
Mr Trump has 45.6% support among voters, just ahead of 44.7% for Clinton, according to the latest poll average from Real Clear Politics.
Democrats contrasted their optimistic, policy-laden message with the darker vision and less specific platform that marked Trump’s turn during the Republican convention a week earlier.
Presumed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens during a town hall style campaign event, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, at South Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. They say: “We’ll fix it together'”. “I sweat the details of policy – whether we’re talking about the exact level of lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, the number of mental health facilities in Iowa, or the cost of your prescription drugs”.
With the conventions now over, Donald Trump wants to cast the race less in terms of Republican versus Democrat, but outsider versus insider.
“Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart, but we will not build a wall”, she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you we don’t have what it takes, we do”, she said.
On Thursday night, Trump had said he wanted to “hit” some of the speakers “so hard their heads would spin”.
“Hillary Clinton says America is stronger together”.
Indeed, Trump already has campaigned in Bangor, in the ME district Republicans might be able to win.
Twitter users have zeroed in on Clinton’s gleeful reaction to the celebratory balloons, with some expecting further fireworks as her presidential face-off with Donald Trump kicks off.
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Clinton argued that Trump, who once said he knew more about the Islamic State “than the generals do”, didn’t have the experience to be commander-in-chief or have access to the nuclear codes.
