The two-term president offered potent testimony on the third night of his party’s national convention about how Clinton, his onetime rival, became an ally and trusted advisor.
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On a day when Democrats meeting at their convention in Philadelphia planned to tout their candidate as far better suited than Trump to keep the country safe, the Republican gave his critics fresh fodder for attack with remarks that the Clinton campaign said posed a possible national security threat.
Safety, reality and money were three of the big subjects as the Democratic Party started rolling out the big speeches Wednesday night. Malik Obama, a longtime Democrat, is so disgusted with his brother’s policies that he is considering switching political parties.
Democrats said the comments were the latest demonstration that Trump is unqualified to be commander in chief.
“He’s betting that if he scares enough people, he might score just enough votes to win this election”. 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.
“This guy doesn’t have a clue about the middle class. He has no clue about what makes America great”, Biden thundered.
“Anybody can tweet, but nobody actually knows what it takes to do the job until you’ve actually sat behind the desk”, he said at his first campaign appearance with Clinton.
Trump said we’re living in an America that no longer resembles that which we grew up in.
Clinton served as Obama’s first-term secretary of state, but was out of government when IS began making territorial advances. “I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill – more qualified than Hillary Clinton”.
In a gesture of party unity, Sanders put forward Clinton’s name on Tuesday night to make her the first woman nominated for president by a major USA party.
President Obama speaks at a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 17, 2016 in Washington, DC.
The attacks on Republican candidate Trump continued. “Can I be honest with you about something?”
Responding to reports that Russian Federation may have hacked Democratic party emails, Trump said he hopes Russian Federation will find emails Clinton says she deleted from her years as secretary of state.
The FBI concluded this month that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of classified material via a private email server, but did not recommend that she face criminal charges. “Think about that”, former Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told the convention before Obama took the stage.
But on Wednesday, he has a prime-time chance when he appears before thousands of delegates in Philadelphia and tens of millions of viewers at home.
The White House said Obama had been working on the roughly 45-minute speech for weeks.
And he’s taking on a decidedly more blunt tone as he enters the final phase of the presidency, both feeling the freedom that comes from running your last race and seeing your first child grow up and move out of the house.
The address will bookend Obama’s career-launching address to the Democratic convention in 2004, his contentious 2008 primary battle with Clinton and his eight years in office.
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Obama made a familiar case for what has been achieved during his two terms, highlighting America’s recovery from the Great Recession, the Iran nuclear deal and reforms to health care. “But as I’ve traveled this country, through all fifty states, as I’ve rejoiced with you and mourned with you, what I’ve also seen, more than anything, is what is right with America”, Obama said in his excerpts of the speech.
