Their political fates now entwined, President Barack Obama is imploring voters to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House, joining a chorus of Democrats vouching Wednesday night for her readiness to be commander in chief at time of volatility around the world.
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While the White House has posited a Clinton win as a third Obama term, a Trump presidency would nearly certainly unpick key parts of Obama’s legacy. Clinton has said those emails were private. “That is who she is”, Bill Clinton said.
President Clinton ignored Republican nominee Donald Trump Tuesday to argue that Secretary Clinton is a far different candidate than the caricature drawn by her opponents. It could play into the hands of Republican Trump, whose path to victory depends on whites drawn to his blistering critiques of elitism and “political correctness” in the America of Clinton and Barack Obama. He has proposed deeply controversial measures such as temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country and building a wall on the border with Mexico to stop illegal immigrants.
Sanders later took centre stage as the final speaker on Monday night and directly told his supporters that “Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States”. After dating, it took several proposal attempts until “I married my best friend”. “That’s what I see, that’s the America I know”, he said. Then the legendary actress Meryl Streep presented an emotional video of heroic women, which was followed by a rapid-fire catalog of pictures of all 44 presidents – including President Obama, who will address the convention on Wednesday night.
“A leader with real plans to break down barriers and blast through glass ceilings and widen the circle of opportunity to every single American, the next president of the United States, Hillary Clinton”. The same poll showed that Mr. Trump’s lead over Clinton as the most trusted candidate on both the national economy and on terrorism had grown to double digits, and Clinton had even fallen from 57 percent to 50 percent on foreign policy – one of her specialities – since the start of the Republican convention. Sanders personally asked Nelson, a former employee in his Burlington mayoral administration, to deliver a speech in support of his presidential nomination.
Clinton is not a carbon copy of Obama, of course. National security will be featured but not emphasized.
“When you want to know about the character of someone in public life, look to see if they have a passion, one that began before they were in office and that they have consistently held on to throughout their career”, Kaine said.
Trump, he said was “not really a plans guy”.
During his speech, Bill Clinton recalled work Hillary did while first lady of Arkansas in the 1980s to increase healthcare in rural parts of the state by pushing a controversial proposal to rely more on nurse practitioners where doctors were not available, an uncommon and controversial idea at the time.
On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic nomination for president.
They rejected Sanders’ call for unity even after the Vermont senator took the symbolic step of declaring Clinton the victor of the state-by-state delegate count inside the convention in Philadelphia.
Day two of the Democratic National convention has wrapped up in the U.S. city of Philadelphia with Hillary Clinton making history as the first female major-party presidential nominee.
Hours before he spoke, his wife passed the 2,382 delegates needed to claim the nomination after South Dakota announced its delegate vote count.
Trump fueled controversy earlier Wednesday when he encouraged Russian Federation to meddle in the presidential campaign. He would take on Trump in the area where the NY real estate developer seeks to appeal to voters: his business acumen, said campaign chair Podesta.
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Obama’s speech will also be a moment to revisit his political story and words that captivated Democrats in Boston and beyond.
