Clinton’s final day of the Democratic National Convention featured speeches from a former member of President Ronald Reagan’s administration and a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official who is heading a GOP group supporting Clinton, part of an expanded outreach to Republican voters and donors. 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.
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The sad irony of writing about a woman making a crack in the glass ceiling while illustrating it with a photo of her husband was not lost on many Twitter users.
United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Thursday (July 28) Americans faced challenges at home and overseas that demand steady leadership and a collective spirit, and attacked Republican Donald Trump for sowing fear and divisiveness.
Several dozen military leaders stood on stage as retired General John Allen, who led troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, delivered a resounding endorsement of Clinton.
“Hillary Clinton is “lista”, he said. She embraced her reputation as a studious wonk, a politician more comfortable with policy proposals than rhetorical flourishes. She said the country must “keep going until every one of the 161 million women and girls across America has the opportunity she deserves to have”.
U.S. President Barack Obama commented on his would-be successor’s global recognition during his own convention speech on Thursday.
Clinton cited President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s most famous remark in a rebuke of Trump’s platform, saying “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. “I will spend the rest of my life campaigning for someone that cares”, one Sanders supporter said as he left the arena while holding up a sign for Jill Stein, Green Party.
Campaigning in Iowa Thursday, Trump said there were “a lot of lies being told” at Clinton’s convention. In an earlier statement, he accused Democrats of living in a “fantasy world”, ignoring economic and security troubles as well as Clinton’s controversial email use at the State Department.
Some U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, USA Today, the Dallas Morning News, the Tampa Bay Times and the Chicago Sun-Times – used either images from her video appearance or shots of excited Clinton supporters on the floor to illustrate her victory.
About halfway through her speech, Clinton declared, “It is with boundless confidence in America’s promise that I accept your nomination”. She called Mrs. Clinton her ‘role model-as a mother and as an advocate.’ Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press … If you compare how Ted Cruz and his supporters were treated in Cleveland, it becomes obvious the overseers of the Democratic convention were patient and refused to overreact to the early problems. “We have to look out for each other and lift each other up”, she said. And after an enormous, heartfelt introduction from their daughter, Chelsea, Hillary arrived onstage and formally accepted the nomination. 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.
Perhaps the most emotional moment in the four-day convention came from Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim US soldier killed in Iraq.
“In Donald Trump’s America, it doesn’t matter what I’ve accomplished as an attorney and policy expert”.
“Don’t let anyone tell you that our country is weak, we are not”. “And I hope, sometimes, I picked you up, too”. He added, “If the Chinese were really capable of creating some kind of diabolical farce to hurt America, they wouldn’t create global warming, they’d invent Donald Trump”.
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Republicans said that history and her high negative numbers among rank-and-file Republican voters make it unlikely she’ll find many cross-over voters.
