But, while Clinton was cleared, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James Comey said publicly that the candidate was irresponsible in dealing with the nation’s security.
Advertisement
“This entire campaign comes down to a single question: If Hillary Clinton can’t give us the truth, why should we give her the presidency?”
Pew said that by April, even as Trump moved toward an insurmountable delegate lead, he was not the first choice of more than half of Republican voters, and 44 per cent did not support him in any of the three surveys between December and March.
The first day of the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, July 18, 2016..
While most of the evening’s attacks focused on Mrs. Clinton’s Libya policy and her handling of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, the GOP delegates were eager to press the issue of Mrs. Clinton’s secret email server. “I think it was wrong, I don’t care what that woman up there – the mother – has felt”.
“I blame Hillary Clinton for the death of my son”, Smith said, as she recounted her experience after her son’s death, bringing many in the audience to tears. “We’re saying that because if I, a guy who knows this business – if I did a tenth of what she did, I’d be in jail today”, he said. “She deserves to be in stripes”.
“I certainly can’t even imagine the grief that she has for losing her son”. He also borrowed from President Obama’s breakout 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, saying, “This is not about black America, white America or brown America, this is about the United States of America”. “Donald Trump is everything Hillary Clinton is not. he speaks his mind and his heart”, she said.
Clinton, the presumptive Democratic candidate ahead of a November 8 election, made the promise in a speech in Cincinnati at the annual convention of the civil rights group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Engel suggests she’s being manipulated, but questioning her emotional account is a tricky thing to do – both for the media or for the Clinton campaign.
Advertisement
But in a campaign that promises to get very negative very quickly, it was perhaps a fitting way to start the convention season.
