“There are clear achievable, affordable responses to our challenges, but we won’t get to them if America makes the wrong choice in this election”. America is already strong. “I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump”. How does all her work square with what Republicans say about her?
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He also urged them to vote. “You can’t afford to stay home just because she might not align with you on every issue”.
Obama credited his supporters with giving him hope in the face of difficulty. In fact, we can expect President Obama to do just that on Wednesday night. Tim Kaine, introduced himself to the nation as a formidable foil to Trump in his own right.
President Obama will continue that hopeful tone as he returns to the Democratic National Convention podium for the fourth time.
It’s true that Trump doesn’t support the federal minimum wage.
Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper invited Jim Obergefell, lead plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationally, to help cast 98 of the state’s 160 votes for Clinton.
Bernie Sanders made history Tuesday in the most bittersweet moment of decades as a progressive champion, rising before the Democratic National Convention to call for unanimous consent to name the first women to be a major party nominee for president. Vice President Joe Biden, who decided against running for president this year after the death of his son, called it a “bittersweet moment”.
PHILADELPHIA – Bernie Sanders loyalists warned that the Democratic Party could rupture over the nomination of Hillary Clinton after a volatile night that saw a large group of Sanders delegates and supporters exit the party’s national convention to stage a sit-in at a nearby media tent. He tore into Trump, mocking his pledges to build a wall along the Mexican border, asking why he has not released his tax returns and slamming his business record, including the now-defunct Trump University. “But one of you is next”. “Our nation is too great to put it in the hands of a slick-talking, empty-promising, self-promoting, one-man wrecking crew”. And Obama will also credit Sen.
Protesters are rejecting Sanders’ call for unity, even after the Vermont senator declared Clinton the victor of the delegate count at Tuesday’s convention. Several delegates held up anti-TPP signs as he spoke.
“I think it’s really cool because it’s been so long and there hasn’t been a female president yet”, said Emma, who said she or her mother might be inspired by Clinton’s example to run for president in the future.
And in another first, the two former Republican presidents George H.W. and George W. Bush publicly boycotted Donald Trump’s convention after a bitter primary in which Trump insulted, ridiculed, and ultimately beat Jeb Bush.
President Bill Clinton, filling the role of devoted political spouse, joined the crowd packed to the arena rafters in cheering the attacks on Trump. In both his campaigns, Obama carried more than 90 percent of black voters, the overwhelming majority of Hispanics, and more than half of young people and women.
Some skeptical voters in Philadelphia are willing to give Clinton a re-hearing, especially after listening to fellow Democrats vouch for her from the convention stage.
The backlash raised questions over whether – and how – Clinton could ever win over Sanders supporters.
Clinton put forth an alternative narrative to the Republican portrayal of his wife as a power-hungry politician who bends the rules and lacks transparency in her political dealings.
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Hurwitz said that the tension within the Sanders camp is happening chiefly “between those who are saying, “We have to vote for Hillary no matter what to defeat Trump” and those who are saying, ‘No, I’m not going to compromise my ideals and my principles to play into a game that is a continuation of the status quo'”.
