Sanders has endorsed Clinton, a former first lady, USA senator and secretary of state, but some of his supporters protested in Philadelphia against the party leadership’s apparent backing of her during the bitter Democratic primary fight.
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The nominating formalities on Tuesday night mark a moment of vindication for Clinton, who emerged from the wreckage of her unsuccessful 2008 bid to serve as secretary of state in Obama’s “Team of Rivals” cabinet.
At a time when many voters say they don’t trust Hillary Clinton, her husband sought to soften her harder edges. Bernie Sanders still simmering over his defeat. She will become the official Democratic Party nominee when she gives her acceptance speech at the convention Thursday.
Nancy Pelosi, a history maker in her own right after becoming the highest ranking woman in the history of the USA government when she was elected House speaker in 2007, was overcome with emotion as she contemplated Clinton’s achievement.
Sanders has endorsed Clinton, a former first lady and United States senator, but some of his supporters protested in Philadelphia against the party leadership’s apparent backing of her during the bitter Democratic primary fight. It was an emotional gesture from a runner-up trying to bridge the party’s troubled divide.
When at mid-day Sanders addressed more than a thousand of his delegates at the city’s convention center, the crowd erupted in fury when he asked them to switch their allegiance to Clinton.
“It’s easy to boo”, he told the delegates. He had spoken twice to accept his party’s presidential nomination, and so bright was his star, even as a former president, that in 2004 he was slotted as far as possible from the nominee.
Her landmark achievement saturated the roll call with emotion and symbols of women’s long struggle to break through political barriers.
He also attacked Republican nominee Donald Trump, though he did not mention him by name.
“I can’t believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet”, she said before going on to share a message for her youngest constituents. “But I think he can campaign for us in any of the battleground states”. The self-described socialist won almost 2,000 delegates and stayed in the race long after his victory was mathematically impossible, stirring up supporters who still defy the party’s nominee. But she saw her daughter, the late Ann Richards, be elected Texas governor. Others cast her as the unequivocal continuation of Obama’s legacy.
“We had to set up the element of surprise”, said Mike Grom, an OH delegate. “And we wound up.putting so many people in prison that there wasn’t enough money left to educate them, train them for new jobs and increase the chances when they came out so they could live productive lives”.
When the third day of the event closes Wednesday, Hillary Clinton will have the approval of her former boss and current President Barack Obama.
“This is our way of showing that a great deal of Bernie Sanders delegates are unhappy”, said Julie Nitsch, 30, a delegate from Austin, Texas. “She figured out what needed to be done and what made the most sense and what would help the most people”.
The evening also had a Georgia flair.
Carter said his grandfather is now cancer free.
Clinton recounted his courtship of a fellow student named Hillary Rodham, as well as his three marriage proposal, life in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Washington, D.C., and dropping Chelsea Clinton off at Stanford University. He still knows how to work a room and in so doing was able to sell Hillary Clinton in a way she’s never been able to do herself.
“Obviously our concern is the battleground states and there are places where he has particularly shown he is strong, like New Hampshire, Wisconsin and other places”, Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta said yesterday. Speakers will include women whose children died from gun violence, some at the hands of police. “She doesn’t build walls around her heart”.
It’s unclear whether Monday’s protests damaged Clinton.
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Some Sanders supporters were visibly angered over the aggressive tone of Tuesday’s demonstrations after days spent thanking police and extending the olive branch.
