Flying high from making history at the Democratic National Convention by becoming the first woman candidate for USA president, Hillary Clinton began her campaign Friday by telling voters in the convention city of Philadelphia that they have a lot of work to do.
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Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Some were hoping for more of an effort to bring Sanders supporters into the party that is backing Clinton.
Donald Trump fired back at Hillary Clinton a day after she accused the Republican nominee of being too thin-skinned to have control of the country’s nuclear arsenal, saying she “doesn’t know how to win”. So let me tell you. “Your cause is our cause”.
“To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws” Clinton said.
In her acceptance speech, Clinton praised Sanders for his campaign, its appeal to young people and its call for economic and social justice. They are supplied by IMAX Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma state, which says on its website that it sources products from India and China. The portrait painted of Hillary Clinton then was much different, of a caring mother who wrote her daughter notes while away on business trips and joined in on family movie nights.
Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump are set for an election battle widely considered to be a tight race when voters head to the polls in November.
‘That is not the America I know, ‘ President Obama said. It’s a future we are going to build’.
He said that his son would never have been able to serve the United States had Trump been the President. “Then deal me in”, she shouted, along with numerous delegates inside the Wells Fargo Arena.
Trump had boasted last week that “no one would watch” the Democratic National Convention and hailed the ratings of the Republican convention on Twitter.
He said on Wednesday there had never been a man or woman more qualified than Clinton to serve as president.
She is the first woman nominee of a major United States party and told the convention that the achievement was special “for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between”.
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After those conversations, Hillary Clinton went right to work. “You have to keep working to make things better, even when the odds are long and the opposition is fierce”.
