She announced on Sunday that she’d step down from that job at the end of this week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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“I don’t see how you run for president of the United States if you spend all your time trash-talking the United States”, she told supporters at a rally in North Carolina.
Eve Barbour drove from Orlando to show her support for Clinton. While she has often avoided overt politics during her almost eight years in the White House, her frustration with Trump’s rise was evident.
She said that when she accepts the nomination Thursday, she hopes being the first woman to win a major party nomination for president will inspire generations to come. A trove of embarrassing leaked emails some said reveal an anti-Sanders bias at the supposedly neutral Democratic National Committee has ripped open some barely-heeled primary wound.
Peter Daou, a former adviser to Clinton who now owns a media company, said Kaine’s speech would turn around some of the doubters about the choice. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a progressive favorite, will deliver the convention keynote.
“He’s just an openhearted person and I think that’s just what we need”, Alvin Strother, a parishioner, said. “Because we’ve got real serious problems to solve”.
Clinton’s campaign hoped the nighttime lineup would overshadow a tumultuous start to the four-day convention. She said on Sunday she would not speak at the convention as originally scheduled. Inside the arena, chants of “Bernie” echoed through the arena as the convention opened, and boos could be heard at times when Clinton’s name was raised. Outside the convention hall, several hundred marched down Philadelphia’s sweltering streets with signs carrying messages such as “Never Hillary”. Many were anticipating that Clinton might announce her vice presidential running mate in Tampa, but instead had to check their Twitter accounts to find out. Kenny Madden, a Sanders delegate from Kentucky, said he doesn’t “think there can be anything Bernie can say that will bring people together”.
It now takes 2,382 delegates to formally clinch the nomination.
Comedian-turned-senator Al Franken, a Clinton supporter, and actress Sarah Silverman, a Sanders supporter, made a joint appearance to promote party unity.
“This right now, is the greatest country on earth”, she said. And “any objective observer will conclude that – based on her ideas and her leadership – Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States”. But she stepped aside, bowing to pressure from Democrats who feared the mere sight of her on stage would prompt strong opposition from Sanders’ backers.
The outgoing chairwoman did watch the gathering from a private suite at the arena.
Scott Pelley: “Senator, you’re gonna be vice president in a White House with two presidents”.
He said there is talk among Sanders’ delegates of walking out during Kaine’s acceptance speech or turning their backs as a show of protest.
“It was concerning last week that Donald Trump changed the Republican platform to become what some experts would regard as pro-Russian”, Mook said.
Clinton is promising a stark contrast to last week’s Republican gathering, an often chaotic affair that featured a heavy dose of pessimism about the economy and national security.
Sanders was a relatively unknown Vermont senator when he chose to challenge for the Democratic nomination. He stunned the Clinton campaign with his broad support among young people and liberals, as well as his online fundraising prowess. But he struggled to appeal to black voters and couldn’t match the former secretary of state’s ties to the Democratic establishment.
On Friday, the public got its first look at DNC emails when Wikileaks posted a cache of 19,000 internal communications, including some that suggested party officials had favored Clinton over rival Sanders during the primaries.
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“There is a consensus among experts that it is indeed Russian Federation that is behind this hack of the DNC”, Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon told CNN Monday morning, arguing Russian Federation was trying to influence the outcome of the USA election.
