“When you think of Seneca Falls, of now electing the first woman president, it’s a great moment in history, it’s a great moment for New York”, Cuomo said.
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And off he went, telling twin tales of how he persuaded her to marry him and how she spent her life being “the best darned change maker I have ever met in my entire life”.
“This woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anything”. Some people want to rant, but Hillary Clinton wants to get results.
Some Sanders supporters held out hope that the senator from Vermont would somehow leave Philadelphia with the nomination, as one of Oregon’s delegates told The Oregonian/OregonLive.
“We’ve built up a lifetime of memories”, he said.
Hillary Clinton’s nomination comes on the second day of the Democratic National Convention, where leaders sought to move past the drama of divisions between Clinton and Sanders supporters.
Detractors said Clinton is less in touch with everyday Americans and is part of the so-called “establishment” Sanders has blasted throughout his campaign.
The symbolic roll call was packed with extra emotion over Clinton’s historic achievement. Many of her supporters were seen crying.
“It’s pretty exciting… she’s the best”.
Building on the narrative of their marriage – a potentially problematic choice, given its rocky history – and laying out his wife’s résumé, Clinton began in the spring of 1971, when he met his future wife on the Yale Law School campus.
Delegates at the Democratic National Convention here cast votes – based on election results and the preferences of party officials – that awarded Clinton the nomination.
Elsewhere in the hall, a Sanders delegate from Nevada was escorted out of the hall, yelling “Nevada was rigged”.
Reed said she doesn’t appreciate being pressured to shift her support from Sanders, who “lit a fire under me….”
When he mentioned Mrs Clinton’s name, the group answered with shouts of “Lock her up!” – an echo of the chants at last week’s Republican convention.
“She’s been around a long time”. He moved that Clinton be selected as the nominee, to roars of approval from the delegates who were deeply divided just a day ago.
Clinton has one big advantage over Trump heading into November: hindsight.
It wasn’t that Bill Clinton had to introduce Hillary Clinton, exactly.
“The first time I saw her, we were, appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights”, he told an audience at the convention in Philadelphia.
Overall, though, there was no better time for former president Clinton to make this case than tonight.
“This is a really important point to take out of this convention”, he said.
“As a father of a daughter and a grandfather of a granddaughter, knowing that my daughter and my granddaughter will grow up in a country where that barrier has been broken is something that’s not just history for our nation but it’s personal”, Kildee said. “And I’ll remember it that way”. He said that Republicans had created a “cartoon” version of Ms Hillary Clinton at their convention.
Some of the Sanders delegates have expressed reservations here this week about supporting Clinton. “It’s a generational thing for me”. “I was still in awe of… how smart and strong and loving a caring she was”.
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Martha McKenna, a Clinton delegate from Maryland, said the night felt like a celebration for Sanders’ campaign as well as Clinton’s. Cartoons are two-dimensional and are easy to absorb.
