“President Obama went through and talked about the experience in the White House and where the country was, and where we were able to take it”.
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She added: “We are not afraid”.
Clinton quoted former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who said, “The only thing to fear is fear itself”.
The convention, which nominated Clinton, got off to a rocky start this week: a leaked cache of emails showed the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had favoured Clinton over Sanders.
The Democratic convention has been marked by a star-studded week of powerful speeches from President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as well as former president Bill Clinton.
After thousands of balloons dropped in the Wells Fargo Center here, Clinton and Trump- two New Yorkers- officially entered a race cast by Democrats as far more consequential than your typical election.
Hillary Clinton has accepted the Democratic US presidential nomination with “humility, determination and boundless confidence in America’s promise”. For the struggling, the striving and the successful.
Clinton began articulating her education policy ideas at union conventions this month and Republican leaders championed school choice at their national convention last week.
“The truth is, through all of these years of public service, the service part has always come easier to me than the public part”.
Clinton was scheduled to speak Thursday night, and was expected to discuss how to boost the economy, improve national security and unite a divided nation.
“Out of many, one”, she said, translating the country’s Latin motto of e pluribus unum. “I sweat the details”, be it the amount of lead permissible in drinking water or the cost of prescription drugs.
Clinton’s speech offered a hopeful vision of America’s future, meant to contrast with Trump’s nomination speech from last week in which he depicted a country and world in chaos.
Americans did not say, “I alone can fix it”, but “we’ll fix it together”, she said. “We can not elect a man who exploits our fears of ISIS and other terrorists, who has no plan whatsoever to make us safer. And they should set off alarm bells for all of us”. She acknowledged his inspiring campaign and, more significantly, she brought up the issues he’s championed: “I want you to know, I’ve heard you. From Baghdad and Kabul, to Nice and Paris and Brussels, to San Bernardino and Orlando, we’re dealing with determined enemies that must be defeated”, she said.
Today, over 80 percent of Americans aren’t confident that we would be able to stop a terrorist attack on American soil.
Trump, a 70-year-old NY businessman who has never held political office, is running just ahead of Clinton in a RealClearPolitics average of recent national opinion polls. They both garner high “unpopularity” ratings.
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“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”, Mr Obama said. “This is really your night”.
