Clinton took the stage to roaring applause from flag-waving delegates on the final night of the Democratic convention, relishing her nomination as the first woman to lead a major USA political party. “We’re going to unleash the creative spirit and energy of all Americans”, Trump Jr had said in his convention speech. Hillary Clinton also reached out to disappointed Bernie Sanders supporters during her speech, after her contentious primary race against the Vermont senator.
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“At Hillary Clinton’s convention this week, Democrats have been speaking about a world that doesn’t exist”, he said hours before Clinton was scheduled to deliver her historic acceptance speech as the Democratic party’s presidential nominee.
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons,”she declared”.
“When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit”, she acknowledged briefly, before, eventually, the ceiling seemed to fall in, covering the floor of Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo arena in a carpet of red, white and blue balloons so thick, the candidate nearly disappeared from view.
He said that his son would never have been able to serve the U.S. had Trump been the President. He claimed Clinton can not reform Wall Street because “she is owned by Wall Street” and suggested Clinton’s “wars in the Middle East have unleashed destruction, terrorism and [the Islamic State] across the world”. While “we are admiring” of other global female leaders, “there’s nothing to compare it with”, said Pelosi, a California congresswoman, of the moment when Clinton accepted the nomination.
“And so it is with humility, determination, and boundless confidence in America’s promise, that I accept your nomination for president of the United States”, she said, as her president husband Bill and their daughter Chelsea looked on.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her running mate Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen.
On Tuesday night, Bill Clinton took to the stage.
She went on: “We have to decide whether we all will work together so we all can rise together”.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine says he is “worried” about certain aspects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
Clinton faces a major trust deficit among a USA public that has known her for the past quarter century.
Later on, Clinton played off of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan. Bernie Sanders for their input, but Clinton’s message was far from the extreme progressive values that overshadowed the beginning of the convention. The shoot-from-the-hip billionaire believes he can make headway in those states with blue-collar white men, a demographic that has eluded Clinton and was unlikely to be swayed by a convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity.
Clinton painted a picture of the America she hopes to create by becoming president.
Following reports Russian Federation hacked Democratic Party emails, Trump said he’d like to see Moscow find the thousands of emails Clinton deleted from the account she used as secretary of state.
“A lot of them just became Democrats”, said Samantha Herring, a state committeewoman from Walton County who supported Sanders.
“Trump Jr is correct that both he and Obama both used the single phrase in their speeches to their respective party conventions”.
“Now I know some of you are sitting at home thinking, well that all sounds pretty good”.
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“Usually, they let the other guy have their convention, (but) not Donald Trump”, Maher said. President Barack Obama quickly congratulated Clinton at the conclusion of her speech. “Donald Trump’s not offering real change”, she said.
