“Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way”, Obama said.
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“We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against”. But we are not afraid.
As she prepared to deliver her speech, people familiar with the matter said the FBI is investigating a cyber intrusion against a major Democratic Party congressional fundraising group, an attack that may be related to an earlier hack against the party’s apparatus. “We’ve got proof, we’ve got evidence that this election was not fair”.
“We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against”, she said in excerpts released ahead of her speech today accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.
Still, Clinton, who isn’t known for her oratory, will aim to move others like him.
“And now, despite pleading with his base to support Hillary, even though they’re concerned that she’s too moderate, Sanders will return to Vermont and to his seat in the Senate, and he’ll do it with no official party affiliation”, writes Heatst.com reporter Emily Zanotti. Rocked by an email scandal that refuses to die, she is now about as unpopular with voters as Trump. By contrast, Trump has no clue, he said.
After a quarter-century just behind the men in charge, Clinton on Thursday gets her turn alone with the American public for what is likely the most important speech of her career.
It is the advent of the maverick real estate mogul Donald Trump that lends an edge to this contest even as the world, including the Americans’ closest allies in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, are anxious at the mere prospect of someone like him occupying the White House. They both garner high “unpopularity” ratings.
Obama spared no effort in praising Clinton, who officially captured her party’s presidential nomination on Tuesday, becoming the first woman ever nominated for US president by a major political party.
Julian Castro, the secretary of housing and development who was rumoured to be on Clinton’s vice-president short list, criticized Trump onstage for presenting “false choices” with respect to the economy, national security and criminal justice. 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.
“I was going to hit one guy in particular, a very little guy, I was going to hit this guy so hard his head would spin”, Trump said, but the governor advised him against it. You have one person to beat.
Other publications that published front page photographs of Bill Clinton, as opposed to Hillary Clinton, include The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal.
Her daughter, Chelsea, will introduce her at the convention. “Regardless of what happened in my life, she was always, always there for me”, she asserted.
“She’s still better than the Republican alternative”. “You know she’s tough”.
Some Democrats still aren’t convinced, a sentiment underscored by the protests of a small but boisterous set of supporters of her primary challenger Bernie Sanders.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took aim from the stage Thursday night at the Republicans and Trump’s “Make America Great” slogan, accusing them of peddling a nostalgic era that never existed.
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.
“Donald Trump is making a lot of really big promises, and some people find those attractive”, said her campaign chief Mook.
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“Look what happened to Al Gore”, she said, recalling that the former vice president kept his distance from President Bill Clinton’s in the 2000 election.
