“America is already great”.
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For Democrats, Obama’s address moment was steeped in symbolism, the passing of the baton from a barrier-breaking president to a candidate trying to make history herself.
Kaine, a USA senator from Virginia picked as Clinton’s running mate last week, will also get a chance to present himself to the party and the country.
Actress Elizabeth Banks hosted the night and gave an unforgettable entrance depicting Donald Trump’s at the RNC. With folksy charm, he ridiculed Trump’s list of promises and imitated one of the GOP candidate’s favourite phrases.
But Sheila Raboy, a Utah delegate who is a veteran and a leader among the convention’s gay contingent, said that ignores the impact roll models have on young people. If she wins in November, the Clintons would also be the first married couple to each serve as president/Associated Press. He warned that the billionaire businessman is unprepared for the challenges that would await him in the Oval Office. Trump, who campaigned Tuesday in North Carolina, mocked the former president’s speech in advance, calling him “over-rated”. And I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: The second night of the Democratic National Convention ended with a short message from Hillary Clinton, who spoke from NY.
Ann Lewis attended the Democratic National Convention this week in her capacity as a surrogate for the campaign but also as the co-chair of the Jewish American Women for Hillary group.
Vice President Joe Biden, her rival for the nomination in 2008 who declined to run this year, will speak. Her convention has made little mention of the economic insecurity and anxiety that has, in part, fueled Trump’s rise with white, working-class voters. Donald Trump calls it “a divided crime scene” that only he can fix.
Thousands of activists have taken to the streets during the convention to voice support for Sanders and his liberal agenda. Her friend and longtime ally, Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, predicted she would eventually flip-flop back to supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. He used the phrase a number of times, and it was printed on signs handed out to the delegates.
Hillary Clinton is no way what we wanted in a president.
Bill Clinton – a hyper-charismatic politician – made the case for someone many see as a poor politician. Events would seek to contrast Clinton’s approach to national security with Trump’s “unsteady, unfit and risky approach”, said Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.
With Republicans controlling Congress and with Obama in the White House, nothing much has gotten done in Washington.
In St. Clairsville, Ohio, not far from where both Clintons campaigned this spring, barber shop owner Kent Jenewein estimated that “more than 90 per cent” of his clients, almost all white men, back Trump – in a county Obama won in 2008.
That coalition was vividly on display in the first two nights of the convention in Philadelphia. The theme included presentations from social justice to women and families.
“There’s been a lot of difficulty in executing the will of Bernie Sanders’ people and surrogates, and this was just a topping for the whole thing because she was ready to go”.
And Bill Clinton was the headlining speaker, giving a passionate, personal speech about his wife-the “real” Hillary Clinton, he said, not the one portrayed in the media.
The focus Wednesday shifted toward the most powerful man in the world.
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On a night awash in history, Hillary Clinton triumphantly became the first woman to lead a major American political party toward the White House, breaking through a barrier that painfully eluded her eight years ago.
