His own legacy on the line, President Barack Obama implored Americans to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House, casting her as a candidate who believes in the optimism that drives the nation’s democracy and warning against the “deeply pessimistic vision” of Republican Donald Trump.
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“When any barrier falls in America, it clears the way for everyone”, Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee, said in the final speech of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center. Tim Kaine, gets his turn in the spotlight, too.
All attacked Trump, who generated controversy earlier in the day by encouraging Russian Federation to find and make public emails deleted by Clinton – an extraordinary suggestion that a foreign power meddle in US elections.
“And now I’m ready to pass the baton and do my part as a private citizen”.
“No matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits”.
“There are pockets of America that never recovered from factory closures, men who took pride in hard work and providing for their families who now feel forgotten”, Obama said.
He continued with a pointed jab at Trump, without using his name.
“We can not elect a man who exploits our fears and vices and other terrors”, Biden said.
Kaine also picked up the traditional attacking role of the presidential ticket’s No. 2.
Clinton was introduced by her daughter, Chelsea, who said that along with being a proud American, Democrat, and mother, she was a “very, very proud daughter”.
“That was not the America I know”, he said, relating to the four day convention in Cleveland.
“It is alarming that Leon Panetta would, through his silence, excuse Hillary Clinton’s enablement of foreign espionage with her illegal email scheme and her corrupt decision to then destroy those emails and dissemble her “private” server to hide her crimes from the public and authorities”, Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said.
Trump touched off a firestorm with his comments about Russian Federation, even as he dismissed suggestions from Democrats that Moscow was already acting on his behalf.
After days of jeering from “Bernie-or-Bust” supporters, it remains to be seen whether U.S. President Barack Obama can unite the Democratic Party to back his one-time rival Hillary Clinton. “Donald Trump can not become our commander-in-chief”.
Mr Biden called Mr Trump an opportunist with no clue about how to make America great.
“He’s trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. Give me a break”.
The delegates ate it up, chanting “not a clue, not a clue” and jumping to their feet over and over, waving signs that read simply “Joe”.
Hillary Clinton walked onto the stage and savored her ground-breaking moment: the first time a woman from a major party has been nominated for president. “It’s her life story”. But I know what she’s passionate about it.
He quipped that unlike Trump, he didn’t start his business empire with a “million dollar check from my father”. “God help us”, Bloomberg, a former New York City mayor, said to roaring applause.
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