She and a parade of speakers before her did it by keeping the emphasis on its significance for future generations.
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“I will carry all of your voices and stories with me to the White House”, she said.
She says she’s happy for boys and men, too, because when a barrier fall, it clears the way for all.
Clinton then grew a little more personal than most of her speeches tend to do. They boiled down to how effectively she could make a closing argument to American voters after four days devoted to combating questions about her trustworthiness.
The FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private internet server didn’t result in criminal charges, but it did appear to deepen voters’ concerns with her honesty and trustworthiness. “I get it. Some people just don’t know what to make of me”, she said, offering a testimonial to her parents and their values, and her Methodist faith as her bedrock.
For her part, Chelsea showed early promise as a politician.
“No one gets through life alone”.
From India’s Indira Gandhi to Germany’s Angela Merkel, many other nations have elevated women to their highest office.
The program Thursday night also aimed to paint a portrait of a devoted daughter, mother and grandmother.
Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton doesn’t quit – even when she is repeatedly heckled by Democratic opponents.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican-turned-independent media mogul, attacked Trump’s history of bankruptcies and lawsuits and called his presidential bid a “con”. She’ll lean heavily on her “stronger together” campaign theme, invoking her 1996 book “It Takes a Village”, her campaign said.
We don’t know if Clinton is elected that she would govern differently because of her gender.
In a fiery, passionate and at times amusing speech, Granholm made clear that unlike Donald Trump, Clinton has actual detailed plans to create good-paying American jobs, protect our children’s health and build the economy of the future. Former Reagan administration official Doug Elmets announced he was casting his first vote for a Democrat in November, and urged other Republicans who “believe loyalty to our country is more important than loyalty to party” to do the same, according to excerpts of his speech.
“America is once again at a moment of reckoning”, Clinton is expected to tell the crowd at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. And just as with our founders, there are no guarantees. “It’s truly up to us”.
Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine will seek to carry her momentum straight onto the campaign trail Friday, taking a three-day bus tour into Rust Belt communities in swing states Pennsylvania and Ohio.
A Clinton presidency would be negative for numerous least empowered in global society, just as Trump would be awful for American minorities.
This dilemma mirrors a debate that has played out in the past 24 hours, since President Barack Obama treated Trump as an aberration, rather than the apotheosis of modern Republicanism, in his Wednesday convention address. “That’s why it’s very important to have a strong victory, so that the first woman president will have a Congress that cooperates, not obstructs”, said Pelosi.
Sanders declared his support for Clinton in an earlier speech at the convention. “No wonder people are anxious and looking for reassurance – looking for steady leadership”. “Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?” She didn’t need to go over the case other people have made for her as a many-faceted person, a whole person, a good friend, someone who cares about children, someone who does the right thing when no one’s looking.
“He spoke for 70-odd minutes, and I do mean odd”, said Clinton, referring to the GOP nominee’s acceptance speech last week in Cleveland. “He had zero solutions”.
Should she become the country’s first female leader, Clinton’s success – or failure – will send a broader message to society and to women who want to follow in her footsteps, said Pelosi.
“I’ve been watching these speeches at night, and boy am I getting hit”, Trump said at an event Thursday in Iowa.
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“Public sentiment is everything”, said Pelosi.
