Rallying in Colorado, Mr Trump denounced Mrs Clinton’s convention speech as “full of lies” and said he was starting to agree with those calling for her to be locked up.
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She said her family built a better life and a better future for their children, using whatever tools they had and “whatever God gave them”.
If she’s elected in November, Clinton will join German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May in a troika of women holding the reins of three of the world’s most powerful countries.
Clinton said she accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night with “humility, determination and boundless confidence in America’s promise”.
“Donald Trump says America is weak, that we’re in decline”.
The Democratic nominee said she was “proud” of the Iranian nuclear deal clinched between world powers and the Islamic Republic previous year, and urged continued United States support for Israel’s security.
Seeking to offset possible weariness with 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”.
Stressing common-sense gun laws, she said: “I’m not here to take away your guns, I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place”. “Issues like affordable education and bringing down student loan debt, and also making sure that there are equitable wages for women”.
Donald Trump said he did not produce the Republican National Convention but just “showed up for the final speech”, distancing himself from how he previously characterized his relationship to the event.
Speaker after speaker cast Trump as intolerant, inexperienced and risky, including the Pakistan-born immigrant father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, who held up a copy of the Constitution and insisted that Trump “has sacrificed nothing”.
In a boost to her, President Barack Obama delivered a soaring testimonial on Wednesday, praising Clinton’s calibre and readiness for the job. “As you know, I’m not one of those people”.
With chants of “Hillary” filing the arena time and again, Clinton said America is once again at a moment of reckoning. She’s said the wrong thing.
From there it was on to the Constitutional Convention and the Founders, about whom Mrs. Clinton had nothing interesting to say. Americans must “decide whether we’re going to work together so we can all rise together”.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made history by becoming the first woman to accept a major-party presidential nomination.
The Democratic primary campaign between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders certainly had its heated moments over the course of the past year. That is just who she is.
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She also offered an olive branch to those who backed her rival Bernie Sanders, telling the convention their voice had been heard.
