The speech was also Mrs Clinton’s turn in the spotlight after three days of appearances by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Chelsea Clinton, a 36-year-old mother of two, was the last in a series of speakers at the four-day gathering who sought to cast Hillary Clinton in a familial light ahead of the November 8 election against Republican Donald Trump.
The Republican nominee has hammered Clinton as untrustworthy, and Republicans depict her as a Washington insider who would continue what they see as the failed policies of Obama’s presidency.
“I certainly know that with her as our commander-in-chief, our foreign relations will not be reduced to a business transaction, I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture”, said Allen.
“Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again – well, he could start by actually making things in America again”, she said later, criticizing him for merchandise made overseas.
Her speech came exactly a week after her friend Ivanka Trump introduced her own father at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
In her speech, Clinton spoke of love and kindness, her passion for policy and her upbringing that melded her into the kind of public servant she aspires to be.
Now, one of the most divisive and distrusted figures in American political life must convince voters that she rather than Republican rival Donald Trump can bring a deeply divided nation together. “What an incredible honor you have given me, and I can not believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet”.
She did not shy away from the momentous nature of her nomination.
“Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son the best of America”.
“To our enemies, we will pursue you as only America can, you will fear us”.
“Bernie, Bernie, your campaign has inspired millions of Americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary”, she said.
Clinton tried to pay tribute to Sanders, but his supporters were not satisfied. Many of his allies wore hats and shirts adorned with a single word: “Bernie”. “From the industrial Midwest to the Mississippi Delta to the Rio Grande Valley”. “From the industrial Midwest to the Mississippi Delta to the Rio Grande Valley”. “She spent the evening talking down to the American people she’s looked down on her whole life,” Miller alleged. While Clinton told Sanders supporters that “your cause is our cause”, a few jeered and hooted at her before being shushed by the crowd.
At one point, as a group of veterans endorsed Clinton from the podium, some California delegates chanted “no more wars!” and “peace, not war!”
“He wants us to fear the future and fear each other”.
“I’m here as a proud American, a proud Democrat, a proud mother”, the only daughter of the former president and former secretary of state said.
Clinton says she still hears her mother urging her “to keep working, keep fighting for right, no matter what”.
Clinton’s acceptance speech ended a program featuring speeches by a procession of Democratic lawmakers, candidates and activists, spiced with musical performances by Carole King and Katy Perry.
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Clinton, accompanied by running mate Tim Kaine and their spouses, will speak about economic opportunity, diversity and national security, themes hammered home this week by a stream of politicians, celebrities, gun-violence victims, law enforcement officers, and activists of all sexualities and races. “Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims”, he said. “Her globalist agenda denies American citizens the protections to which they are all entitled – tearing us apart”.
