United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Thursday (July 28) Americans faced challenges at home and overseas that demand steady leadership and a collective spirit, and attacked Republican Donald Trump for sowing fear and divisiveness. But her real audience was the millions of voters watching at home, many of whom may welcome her experience as secretary of state senator and first lady, but question her character.
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“America is once again at a moment of reckoning”.
Clinton also trained fire on Trump’s dystopian view of America. “I want to thank Bernie Sanders”.
“Now I’ve been fighting for a trade agenda for more than 20 years that puts American workers first and I can tell you that in all those years I’ve never ever seen Donald Trump”, said Mr Brown, one of the most liberal members of the Senate.
Obama argued, “America has changed over the years. I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place”.
“I ask you to carry her the same way you carried me”.
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.
Clinton has acknowledged that she is not a charismatic political figure.
This time Chelsea will be introducing her mother as the Democratic Party’s nominee.
Clinton and Kaine will attend a rally Saturday night, two days after the convention concludes, at Youngstown’s East High School. Our power comes from those immortal declarations …
“It’s true”, she said.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Cleveland who was on Clinton’s short list for vice president, had a prime-time spot Wednesday.
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.
As expected, the president enthusiastically endorsed Hillary Clinton as his successor and repeatedly bashed Donald Trump.
Michelle Obama’s entire speech, which even Trump said was effective, ran only about 12 minutes, but it could be the heart of a stump speech with the potential to confound Republicans.
The program paid tribute to law enforcement officers killed on duty, including five who died in Dallas earlier this month in retaliation for officer-involved shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana.
On the convention’s closing night, Clinton sought to reach beyond the Democratic base, particularly to moderate Republicans unnerved by Trump. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.
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The few remaining, tired Ted Cruz supporters found a rallying cry in the former Republican presidential candidate’s refusal to endorse Trump, a moment of party discord that prompted security to escort Heidi Cruz out of the convention hall and away from irate, yelling Trump supporters. 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.
