Clinton also wants Obama’s help, in contrast to other major-party nominees who didn’t want to be closely associated with their predecessors, such as Democrat Al Gore who didn’t want the scandal-tainted Bill Clinton to campaign extensively for him in 2000, and Republican John McCain who kept his distance from an unpopular George W. Bush in 2008. His former secretary of state, Clinton has embraced Obama’s record and most of his policies as her own.
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The president went hard in the paint as he went head-on after Trump, a contentious candidate who was most recently in the news for encouraging the Russians (or Chinese; he wasn’t picky) to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had considered an independent presidential run before ruling it out, made a late appearance Wednesday – with an endorsement that could help Clinton reach out to vital independents whom Trump also is courting, and a bagful of zingers aimed squarely at his fellow billionaire.
After a quarter-century just behind the men in charge, Clinton gets her turn alone with the American public on Thursday evening. “She was a little surprised, and her team was a little surprised, but ultimately, she said yes – because she knew that what was at stake was bigger than either of us”. Thank you all. I can not wait to join you in Philadelphia.
On a sun-drenched stage under the Kimmel Center’s vaulted glass ceiling, women in politics and their supporters celebrated breaking through another glass ceiling: the one Hillary Clinton smashed after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination the previous day.
Watch the livestream above and keep refreshing this page all night long for regular updates. And with a loyal audience of Democratic activists and officials, already fired up by the first three nights of speakers, Clinton is sure to receive a massive response. Let’s take a look at the truth behind what was said on the convention stage. Bernie Sanders, many of whom remain bitterly disappointed in their candidate’s loss to Clinton in this year’s primary contests.
“Tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me”, the president said.
“Donald Trump is making a lot of really big promises, and some people find those attractive”, said her campaign chief Mook. “It’s time to break from a Democrat establishment which has protected her for years and elect someone who will bring true change to Washington in Donald Trump”, Priebus said. “He’s betting that if he scares enough people, he might score just enough votes to win this election”, Obama said.
“It put into perspective what’s going in the nation, what we’ve accomplished in the nation during his tenure, but also that we need to move forward and get back to our moral values”, Player said.
Just 19 percent of Americans said the country is heading in the right direction in an AP-GfK poll this month, a significant drop from the 39 percent who felt that way a year and a half earlier. “They’re supporting the principled approach to address our principles and make our government ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people” again”.
Mrs Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate Tim Kaine made a folksy appeal to more centrist voters, deriding a “slick-talking, empty-promising, self-promoting one-man wrecking crew!”
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And for many of our young children, Obama is the only president they’ve known, and there is something powerful in our children seeing the leader of the free world as a black man.
