Clinton has picked up some endorsements from Republicans in recent weeks, including Brent Scowcroft, a national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush; Hank Paulson, a Treasury secretary under President George W. Bush; and Dan Akerson, a former top executive with General Motors and Nextel. Delivering a passionate case for his onetime rival, Obama declared Clinton not only can defeat the “deeply pessimistic vision” of Republican Donald Trump but also realize the “promise of this great nation”.
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She criticized the degree of money in politics and its damaging effect on democracy and the economy. But the Clinton campaign is not taking this year’s outcome for granted, and for good reason: the one demographic category in which the Democratic standard-bearer is the weakest is that white working class, especially white men who do not have a college degree.
The accusation comes after Donald Trump Jr.’s stepmother, Melania Trump, was caught repurposing passages from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama in her own speech at the RNC. That law has since been blocked pending the outcome of a court challenge.
Hours later, he told Fox News he was being “sarcastic”, although shortly after his remarks on Wednesday, he tweeted that Russian Federation should share the emails with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Again, if you’re inclined to like Democrats, those pictures get you half the way there, regardless of what was in the speech.
But Cummings says he’s not upset about it because he’s a veteran of civil rights protests and understands the passion that drove the mostly young delegates to shout over his speech Monday.
“By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started”, Obama said. And most voters see and hear the sound bites (and will see and hear them over and over), not the whole thing.
Chelsea Clinton said Thursday that she would consider meeting with Ivanka Trump to discuss the tone of the presidential campaign between their parents Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. He’s not representing Republicans as much as he is representing himself – “I alone can fix it” – and in so doing makes this election a referendum on Donald Trump. At one point the president said that “anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end”.
Clinton’s four-day convention began with efforts to shore up liberals who backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and it ended with an outstretched hand to Republicans and independents unnerved by Trump.
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is giving Hillary Clinton credit for her work on behalf of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
PHILADELPHIA-With the world watching, an extraordinary thing happened on the big stage at the Democratic National Convention while the world watched: a black man embraced a white woman.
“It’s true”, she said. Clinton was a US senator from NY at the time. She never quits. His endorsement of Hillary was strong and without question. But, she added, she’s going to be fair.
Vilsack said he expects President Obama to continue spreading the message he shared at the convention Wednesday night – that there’s still work to do. She allowed us to be a part of it. “The crowd displayed “HILLARY” signs, waved American flags and roared with applause as Clinton outlined campaign proposals”. And that nice head of hair! “Just ask the twenty million more people who have health care today”.
The Democrat and first woman nominee for a major party will tour Pennsylvania and OH by bus, while Trump jets to Colorado, where his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border could resonate with angry whites but repel Hispanics.
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There’s some polling to give them comfort.
