“Meanwhile, Donald Trump calls our military a disaster”. Bernie Sanders, Reynolds said she was disappointed when Sanders did not receive the Democratic nomination for president.
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President Barack Obama speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. “The sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing, and the world will be ideal”, she said, and added: “Maybe I’ve just lived a little long, but I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be”.
If she can mobilize a similar minority turnout from young African-American voters like Williams, it might blunt gains Republicans are hoping to make among working-class whites in states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Both have seen how the relentless oppositionism of the Republican Party led inexorably to Trump, the most risky and irresponsible nominee any major political party has ever put forward. “This is the moment, this is the opportunity for our future”, said retired Marine Gen. John R. Allen, a former commander in Afghanistan. Delegates chanted “not a clue, not a clue” and jumped to their feet. The speech was neatly balanced between trumpeting Mrs Clinton, attacking Mr Trump and looking back on his own journey over the past 12 years.
“I believe we need a president who is a problem-solver, not a bomb-thrower”, said Bloomberg.
“The Clintons don’t care about our country”, Reynolds said. She disputed Trump’s assertion that she wants to repeal the Second Amendment, saying “I’m not here to take away your guns”. “You know who I don’t trust?”
“Even in the middle of crisis, she listens to people, and keeps her cool, and treats everybody with respect”, he’ll say. “‘It ought to be apparent to all, and the Democrats should be able to make the case, that he is manifestly unsuited to be the president of the United States because of his recklessness with the national security, ‘ Bernstein said”.
Clinton was not expected to appear until Thursday, when she will accept her party’s nomination. Through four nights of polished convention pageantry, Democratic heavyweights told a different story about Clinton.
Trump himself reacted to the speech on Twitter, scoffing at Obama’s insistence that, in contrast to the Republican’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, “America is already great”. Richards said she herself was standing backstage with her daughter when Clinton was declared the nominee Tuesday.
“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. 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.
The wealthy Democratic donors, many of them executives who run complex businesses, know firsthand how revealing tax returns can be. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump said. “People outside the United States don’t understand what’s going on in this election”. 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.
Dan Mahaffee, an analyst with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, said much of Clinton’s speech will likely focus on the themes she’s discussed already about having an experienced, steady hand as leader; that her election represents a historic step for the USA with her as the first female president; and that she can represent an America that is moving forward, rather than clinging to a vision of how the past was better.
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For several hours, Trump stole the show.
