Cries of “Nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, hey, goodbye”, went up from demonstrators near the Wells Fargo Center, after party delegates Tuesday evening made Clinton the first woman nominee for president of a major political party.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders laid out a detailed, policy-heavy case for supporting his primary rival on Monday night, even though many of his supporters remain vocally distrustful of her.
Twenty years ago, Hillary Clinton took the stage at the Democratic National Convention and asked Americans to send her husband to the White House.
She put an electrifying cap on the Democratic convention’s second night, appearing by video from NY and declaring to cheering delegates, “We just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet”.
He said his wife had “done more to make positive change when she was 30 than many officials do in a lifetime”.
Clinton, a former first lady, USA senator and secretary of state, will take the stage Thursday, the last night of the convention, when she’s expected to make a personal appeal to unify the party in her quest to defeat NY billionaire Donald Trump in November.
And then in a ritual that spans all 50 states and territories, each delegation cast its votes for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
Once the nomination is sealed, the Clinton campaign planned to turn to a Day 2 program dubbed “Fights of Her Life”, highlighting her advocacy for children, health care and September 11 recovery efforts, the campaign said.
Florida delegates also heard from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Sens. The former president recalled that as a law student at Yale University in 1971, “I met a girl” named Hillary Rodham.
“Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face, and she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known”, he said, hitting back at Republican arguments she is a Washington insider tied to the status quo.
“Good for you because earlier today you nominated the real one”, he said.
The party is still reeling from leaked Democratic National Committee emails which show nominally neutral party staff trying to undermine Sanders’ campaign and questioning his Jewish faith. The walkout spoke to the party division that still lingers among some progressives who feel the political system cheated Sanders, who endorsed Clinton in a keynote speech the previous night.
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teen killed in 2012, said that no mother “would have signed up” for the assignment. Elizabeth Warren didn’t persuade him to support Clinton. “This isn’t about being politically correct”. “I wish he’d say ‘I’m with her'”.
Clinton is scheduled to deliver her acceptance speech on Thursday (July 28).
“We can support our police officers while at the same time making criminal justice reforms”.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating the “cyber intrusion”, which the Clinton campaign blamed on Russian hackers it said are bent on helping Trump.
Demonstrators said they weren’t swayed by Sanders’ speech at the convention Monday night, in which he said: “Based on her ideas and her leadership, Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States”. Chanting “Bernie or bust!”, several hundred gathered in downtown Philadelphia for a 4-mile march to the convention hall.
In nominating Clinton, delegate after delegate made the point that the selection of a woman was a milestone in America’s 240-year-old history.
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When almost 200 Bernie Sanders delegates walked into the main media tent outside the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, Dawn Abate of Stuart was among them.
