As for Hillary Clinton, his one-time primary rival, Obama made clear he views her as uniquely qualified to be his successor.
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Seeking to offset possible weariness of a politician who has been in the spotlight for decades, he said of Clinton: “She’s been there for us, even if we haven’t always noticed”.
Malik Obama, 58, stirred up controversy in 2010 when he took a teenager as his third wife. “Donald Trump can not become our commander-in-chief”.
As for Trump, the usually mild-mannered Biden minced no words.
At one point Biden picked on Trump’s reality TV series, The Apprentice, and his signature phrase in the program, saying: “Just listen to me a second without booing or cheering. Sorry Joe, that was Ted Cruz!” And as President, she’ll keep fighting for all of us!
Trump has said in radio ads that he would “bomb the hell out of” the group. “I’ll be honest”, said Kaine. “Give ’em a chance”, Biden added. He said he has voted in US elections since the 1980s. She’ll lean heavily on her “stronger together” campaign theme, invoking her 1996 book “It Takes a Village”, her campaign said.
Republicans hold a 247-188 House majority, including two vacant seats highly likely to remain Democratic.
During his remarks, some Bernie Sanders supporters began to chant “No More War!” but were drowned out by counter chants of “USA, USA”. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received the number of votes needed to secure the party’s nomination.
“And I, I plan on staying involved”, he said. He’s trying his best to bridge the gap within his party.
“All that is real; we’re challenged to do better; to be better”, one excerpt read. Drop us in the desert in a place they don’t want us.
Polls have shown Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton struggling to capture support from white male voters, while that group is attracted to Republican Donald Trump’s anti-establishment message.
Philadelphia-President Obama and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine did something very smart Wednesday night.
He said Trump’s stance against Muslims coming to the United States was understandable. The mere fact that the country is considering electing Donald Trump – Obama’s opposite in so many ways – is a stark reminder that many Americans reject his approach. Last week in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, he painted a grim picture of America.
Flatly rejecting Trump’s views both on foreign policy and the economy, Biden scorched the GOP candidate as the most unprepared nominee ever, and suggested he could put nothing less than the global order at risk.
There was an air of confidence in the arena Wednesday as speakers and videos portrayed Clinton as a sound leader and Trump as erratic.
But if Obama plagiarized the line from Trump Jr., then Trump Jr. had to first plagiarize the line from Obama, who has used a version of it at least twice before.
“We are not a fragile people”.
“The America I know is full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity”, Obama said.
Jackson is a regular figure at Democratic Party conventions.
Thursday morning. people could be talking about the current Vice President Joe Biden and his speech Wednesday night. The “overarching goal of Putin is to break up North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and fracture Europe”. But he said the leak is consistent with Russia’s past conduct.
The Trumps apparently still haven’t gotten over Melania Trump’s plagiarism of Michelle Obama from last week’s GOP convention and how it stole much of the spotlight from Donald Trump Sr.
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Shortly after Hillary Clinton formally captured the Democratic nomination and declared the glass ceiling cracked and almost shattered, her husband, ex-President Bill Clinton delivered an expansive and passionate testimonial Tuesday night. “Speaking is hard for me”, Giffords said.
