“And it should be a big deal to your president”.
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“We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against. And we’ll put that money to work where it belongs – creating jobs here at home!” she warned.
Mrs Clinton’s acceptance speech outlined her vision for a country that is “stronger together” – a contrast to her view of Donald Trump and his policies to ban Muslim migration and build a wall between the USA and Mexico. “He’s taken the Republican Party a long way… from “Morning in America” to “Midnight in America”, she said.
“I think we will stay together all night because I don’t really want to go home and watch that crap”, he said. “I know that at a time when so much seems to be pulling us apart, it can be hard to imagine how we’ll ever pull together again”, Clinton said to a rapt Democratic convention audience.
Clinton, the first female presidential nominee from a major USA political party, criticized Trump’s plan to build “a great border wall” alongside the border with Mexico.
“When any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone”. Trump furniture in Turkey, not Ohio. And on Thursday, she acknowledged it. Bernie Sanders, saying: “I’ve heard you”.
I can’t channel such voters – my many reservations about Clinton are comparatively mild and my faith in Trump utterly nonexistent – but my guess is yes, a bit. And also when she spoke about her experience with disabled children, and the time she wonderfully said, “When there are no ceilings, the sky is the limit”, it touched me and I am sure many others.
Hillary Clinton used her speech to the Democratic National Convention to criticise rival presidential candidate Donald Trump’s economic record, lack of “plans” and unreliability in crisis situations.
On Thursday, people familiar with the matter said the FBI is investigating a cyber attack against another Democratic Party group, which may be related to the earlier hack against the DNC. Their occasional chants of protest were drowned out by Clinton supporters chanting, “Hillary!”
“I just don’t know frankly how a person like this would be electable”, Trump said. “Your cause is our cause”.
The tweets came as Clinton launched a pointed attack on Trump, questioning his fitness for office and questioning his temperament – both on and offline.
“He also talks a big game about putting America First”, Ms Clinton said while accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination to run for president in the November general elections. Please explain to me what part of America first leads him to make Trump ties in China, not Colorado. He slammed the former secretary of state as an ineffectual defender against terrorism and blasted her judgment. “No wonder people are anxious and looking for reassurance – looking for steady leadership”.
The evening sounded at times more like a traditional Republican convention than a Democratic one. Speakers, some of whom included military and police officers, made frequent mentions of religion and patriotism. I worked for Ronald Reagan.
Earlier in the day, Trump refused to credit Clinton’s unique role in history.
Starting with a rally Friday at Temple University, Clinton, accompanied by running mate Sen. Clinton, who aides say spent weeks working on her address, saw the speech as a major opportunity to answer what her husband called the “cartoon alternative”.
“Hillary Clinton’s speech was an insulting collection of clichés and recycled rhetoric”.
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Delegates chanting United States of America, victims of the 9/11 attacks highlighted, the families of murdered cops taking the stage-it seemed like back to the future as Democrats appropriated the symbols that Republicans once owned.
