She was joined on stage by her pregnant daughter, Chelsea, and husband, President Bill Clinton. She didn’t merely win the nomination. Hillary Clinton made history on Tuesday, June 7, clinching the presidential nomination for a major party. Standing before a flag-waving crowd in Brooklyn, the former secretary of state soaked up the cheers and beamed.
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“Barriers can come down”. Finally grasping the ring that she’s been publicly reaching for since 2008 (and, one suspects, much longer in her dreams), some bad tension in her soul appeared to have been freed. As the Democratic upheavals of 1968 remind us, hard feelings are bitter and enduring when an insurgent campaign falls short. “This is our moment to come together”.
Trump, beating Clinton to the punch on Tuesday, extended an olive branch to Sanders’ supporters, saying, “We welcome you with open arms”.
“The struggle continues”, he said. Later that night, she took California, which put her at a total of 2,755 delegates. “Senator Sanders, his campaign, and the vigorous debate that we’ve had about how to raise incomes, reduce inequality, increase upward mobility have been very good for the Democratic Party and for America”. He would have needed a landslide Tuesday to reach that goal. The major unions that have supported Clinton-in particular, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the National Education Association (NEA), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-will have many hundreds of delegates at the upcoming Democratic convention. These will be tough votes for Clinton to win back, even if she and Sanders are vastly closer in their beliefs than they are to Trump or any of the candidates he beat. Winning a majority of both the popular vote (she’s up by more than 3 million) and the pledged delegates, Clinton beat Sanders by more than Obama beat her in 2008.
Ms Warren, 66, has been one of the Democrats’ most outspoken critics of Mr Trump, 69, and her priority is helping to defeat the presumptive Republican nominee in the 8 November presidential election, the sources said.
As the Democratic race was wrapping up, Republicans were unraveling anew.
“I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle and I will never, ever let you down – too much work, too many people, blood, sweat and tears”, Trump said, reading from a teleprompter at a rally at one of his golf courses in suburban New York City.
“The truth is actually I am anxious about the Republican party”, he said.
Trump went on to preview what Clinton has ahead of her: He blasted her as the defender of a “rigged” political system.
Trump promised to deliver a speech next week focusing on “the Clintons”.
“I thought it made Hillary a better candidate”.
Clinton has appeared completely dialled in to combating Trump, especially since last week in San Diego when she earned plaudits from Democrats for her blistering critique of Trump as “temperamentally unfit” to be president, a line of attack she repeated on Tuesday night.
“I don’t know because I don’t know how long it’s going to take to try to sort all this out”, she said. In 1948-the last time the Democrats held their convention in Philadelphia-President Harry Truman, the party’s nominee for re-election, favored a bare-bones, insubstantial civil rights plank.
Sanders and some in his army of die-hard supporters expressed frustration about the survey. As he addressed supporters in Los Angeles, the crowd chanted “Media is corrupt”. Reveling in the purity of an inspirational campaign, they see her as the embodiment of the sell-out liberal elite that is as corrupted as it is entrenched.
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Watch her full speech here. I think she will not pick somebody that she feels in her heart isn’t ready to be president or commander-in-chief and I think Elizabeth Warren is a wonderful, bright, passionate person, but with no experience in foreign affairs and not in any way, shape, or form ready to be commander-in-chief.
