He further urged voters to support Hillary Clinton, saying she will “make us stronger together”.
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To loud cheers and applause, Mr Clinton took aim at his wife’s Republican rivals, alluding to the party’s apparent hollow promises. “She’ll never quit on you”.
“None of them want her”.
“She’s been worth every single year she’s put into making people’s lives better”, he said. “She’s a change-maker”, he added, a label he used several times.
He was repeatedly extolled as a leader “whose fight for inclusion, justice and fairness has invigorated our party” (Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolfe) and a man “who electrified Nebraska and the United States” (state party chairman Vince Powers).
The 42nd president also discussed his multiple attempts at proposing marriage.
“She never made fun of people with disabilities, she tried to empower them for their abilities”, Bill Clinton said, taking a shot at Republican nominee Donald Trump, who was widely seen as having mocked a reporter’s physical disability at a rally this summer.
The Democratic Party formally nominated Hillary Clinton for president Tuesday, making her the first woman chosen by a major American party.
Clinton said during a visit to Hillary’s hometown of Park Ridge early in their courtship, her father and brothers were “extolling the virtues of rooting for the Bears and the Cubs”.
Speaking for New York State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state cast 108 of its 299 votes for Sanders and “applauds him for his call for unity for all Democrats”.
The former president traced his relationship with his wife back decades, recalling in great detail the first time he spotted her on a law school campus and the impact she had on pushing him into politics.
The mood was buoyant, as state delegation speakers touted their natural glories and problems, including Alaska’s “receding glaciers”, as they announced their votes.
With that, a year-long battle that has divided the party was over. With Sanders out of the race, some of them were backing Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
In an adept speech peppered with anecdotes about their early years as a couple, the former president extolled his wife’s virtues as a young lawyer fighting segregation at the start of her career, to a seasoned political player dealing with some of the world’s most pressing issues. Last week, some Democrats were gloating over the divisions on display when Republicans held their convention in Cleveland. “We didn’t come to this convention to just fall in line”. Yes, there are still people who feel hurt by what’s happened. An obsession with racial and sexual identity, redistribution, anti-business and a muddled foreign policy are other striking planks of the new Democratic Party. “It is literally the future of our country, and whether or not we’re going to put a uniquely unsafe and unqualified person in charge of the free world”.
As soon as the Clinton nomination was made official, a group of Sanders supporters staged a walkout from the convention hall “chanting “this is what democracy looks like” before heading for the press tent”. Should she win on Election Day, her husband will step into a singular role in American history: first gentleman.
The July 22-26 poll found that 39 percent of likely voters supported Trump, 37 percent supported Clinton and 24 percent would vote for neither.
Lucia McBath, Jordan Davis’ mother, said that Clinton isn’t “afraid to say that black lives matter”. Throughout the speech Bill repeated referred to Hillary as a “change-maker”, framing it as her defining character trait.
In seeking to boost his wife’s campaign, the former president has struggled to strike a balance between defending his record and embracing the insurgent wing of today’s Democratic Party. “We can’t close our eyes and turn around and go back so we have to keep moving forward and make sure the political change happens”, Green said.
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And Clinton herself appeared on video to thank delegates and celebrate her big night. “If there are any little girls out there who stayed up late to watch, I might become the first woman President, but one of you is next”.
