“America is once again at a moment of reckoning”, she told the delegates.
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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. The solution, she argued, wasn’t rule by a would-be president who claims that “I alone can fix it” but concerted action and political compromise.
Meanwhile, by highlighting the looming global and national security threat facing the country, Clinton called for “steady leadership” and again questioned whether Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has the temperament to be commander-in-chief.
In a 12-minute introduction received warmly in a packed Philadelphia arena, Chelsea Clinton countered criticism that her mother is an untrustworthy politician who struggles to show compassion in front of American voters. Past all the balloons and beyond all the bombast, will even this convention be enough to convince America that Clinton is the person to trust in the Oval Office?
“They think he couldn’t possibly mean all the awful things he says – like when he called women ‘pigs, ‘” she said.
After more than a quarter-century on the national stage, Clinton will be hard-pressed to prove that she can, indeed, shake up the status quo and take on entrenched interests – a clear priority for many voters.
“She has been caricatured by the right and by some on the left”.
Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president Thursday, casting herself as a unifying leader whose steadiness and judgment stands in sharp contrast with her opponent.
Former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris said it was important for his party’s nominee to showcase the “original Hillary Clinton, before she became so guarded”. And yet, for months we’ve watched as Trump has seized on America’s very real economic and security-based anxieties. “Welcome to the Democratic Party 2016”. On that score, it finished somewhat better than it began.
“I have to support the Secretary”, Robbins said.
Some supporters of primary rival Bernie Sanders still object to Clinton’s nomination and were planning to express their displeasure.
He anticipated that the Clinton campaign would make a concerted effort to reach out to Mr. Sanders’ supporters.
Clinton’s speech was interrupted multiple times by chants from the crowd, though many times cheers for Clinton drowned out the hecklers.
The previously unreported incident at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and its potential ties to Russian hackers, are likely to heighten accusations, so far unproven, that Moscow is trying to meddle in the U.S. election to help Mr Trump.
The former secretary of state’s character has been tarnished by a controversy surrounding her use of private email while at the State Department as well as a tough primary fight with Senator Bernie Sanders, which left some voters embittered by his loss.
Describing Hillary Clinton as the “most qualified” candidate to succeed Barack Obama in the White House, top Democratic women lawmakers have said the country is “ready to make history” by electing her as the next president of the US. And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I’ve heard you. “Your cause is our cause!”
Obama led the charge on Wednesday, stirringly hailing Clinton as his political heir.
An adoring mother and grandmother.
Katie McGinty, a Senate candidate from Pennsylvania, was another one of the speakers to take the stage Thursday night before Clinton.
Clinton warned that Trump’s words should “set off alarm bells for all of us”. He was used as a foil, a portrait of divisiveness and intolerance juxtaposed with constant appeals by speakers here to tolerance and inclusion. But Trump’s clothing line is made overseas, not in the United States. “They’re trying to justify eight years of horror”.
“I’m totally confident she will win them over”, Currie said. “America isn’t about ‘Yes he will.’ It’s about ‘Yes we can'”. One testimonial came from a Medal of Honor recipient.
“So this November, I’m voting for a woman who is my role model as my mother and as an advocate, a woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children”.
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“He’s taking the Republican party a long way from morning in America to midnight in America”, Clinton said of Trump. She disputed Trump’s assertion that she wants to repeal the Second Amendment, saying “I’m not here to take away your guns”. “But here’s the sad truth: There is no other Donald Trump…This is it. And in the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn’t get: that America is great — because America is good”.
