Michelson said even though she knew Clinton would become the Democratic nominee, and even though Sanders has supported her, she wanted to use the opportunity to “get the message out that we still have a lot of work to do in this country”.
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Mrs Clinton passed the 2,382 delegates needed to claim the nomination after South Dakota announced its delegate vote count.
Inside the convention hall, a long list of speakers were lining up to take the stage to support Clinton’s nomination.
Clinton can however draw on political lesson learned after her long career in the glare of the public spotlight.
“This election, and every election, is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives”, she said.
Mrs Clinton’s nomination comes after Senator Bernie Sanders’ supporters disrupted the first day of the convention with boos and jeers.
But she faces a grueling campaign against Trump, who has engineered a polling bounce after his own convention in Cleveland last week and is now locked in a close race with the soon to be Democratic nominee.
Ebeling was a childhood friend of Clinton’s in suburban Chicago.
But Palmieri acknowledged that Clinton had work to do to fix voters’ lack of trust in her. Just three in 10 Americans believe Clinton is “honest and trustworthy”, her lowest rating by this measure on the CNN poll, which was released on Monday ahead of the convention.
Former president Clinton was due to be joined on stage by singer Alicia Keys and a video tribute led by Meryl Streep in a night that meant to refocus attention on the winning candidate after 1,846 delegates take turns to cast their votes for her failed opponent Bernie Sanders.
The Democratic National Convention has been marked by disunity among Democrats, who protested both on the floor of the convention and in the streets of Philadelphia as the 2016 event began.
But the job of the convention now is to capitalise on the historic nature of Clinton’s win – as the self-described glass ceiling cracker, reaching higher than a woman has gone before in U.S. politics. Tim Kaine, Clinton’s new running mate. She added, “The idea that I’m going to be here when the first woman president is nominated is overwhelming”. He was a delegate who helped make Barack Obama the first black nominee for president at the 2008 convention.
During the campaign, Sanders regularly whipped up the crowd at his rallies with broadsides against policies that Bill Clinton championed two decades ago.
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The move was very much a ceremonial one: Clinton had already secured the number of delegates during the roll call to clinch the party’s nomination.
