“The fundamental question that people are asking in this election is ‘Who’s looking out for me, who’s going to level the playing field for me, who’s got my back?'” said Mo Elleithee, an official on her 2008 campaign who is now a scholar at Georgetown University. “Anyone who’s looking for the Party of Lincoln, we’ve got room for you right here, ” Kaine said, throwing in snatches of Spanish he learned as a volunteer in Honduras to woo the Hispanic vote (11-12 per cent of the USA electorate).
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Clinton took the stage to roaring applause from flag-waving delegates. Speakers who preceded Obama laid it on for Clinton even as the simmering discontent of the Sanders insurgency appeared to die down.
“Boy, I’m getting hit” by Democrats – he says. But her primary focus was persuading anxious Americans to stick with a Democrat for a third term and put aside their frustration with those who have been entrenched in the political system.
“And I always, always knew how deeply they loved me”, said Chelsea Clinton.
She also will continue to woo moderate Republicans who may be unnerved by Trump.
Ret. Marine General John R. Allen, a former commander in Afghanistan, will underscore the same point. “We must seize this moment to elect Hillary Clinton as president of the United States of America”.
– Last stand for the Bernie crowd? . The significance of having a woman as a presidential nominee struck Greene, and she decided that it was time to be “all in” for Hillary Clinton.
James Campbell, a professor of political science at the University at Buffalo who has written a book about political polarization, said that in addition to “lighting into Trump”, there are two other topics she should be sure to include: an appeal to supporters of Bernie Sanders, and an acknowledgement of her own shortcomings. “I sweat the details of policy”, she said. In an earlier statement, he accused Democrats of living in a “fantasy world”, ignoring economic and security troubles as well as Clinton’s controversial email use at the State Department.
Indeed, the Democratic convention has been a visual ode those mantras: The first African-American president symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman.
In a speech to the Democratic National Convention, Chelsea Clinton described her mother as a warm and caring mom, a playful grandmother and most of all as a tireless fighter for children.
Clinton, 68, enjoyed a stream of unrestrained praise Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, from her running mate Tim Kaine to Vice President Joe Biden to the independent former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg.
A parade of speakers – gay and straight, young and old, white, black and Hispanic – cast Trump as out-of-touch with a diverse and fast-changing nation.
Khizr Khan, an American Muslim whose son was killed in military service, emotionally implored voters to stop Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration.
“And we feel confident that by the end of this week, we’ll have done a good job of laying the foundation of what the contrast is between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump”. “Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution? And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump”.
“Violence is not the answer”, Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez said.
Clinton’s backers unleashed a litany of criticism of Trump Wednesday, with Kaine blasting him as “a slick-talking, empty-promising, self-promoting, one-man wrecking crew” and Obama calling him a demagogue.
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Hours later, Trump told Fox News he was being “sarcastic” although shortly after his remarks on Wednesday, he tweeted that Russian Federation should share the emails with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
