In stark contrast with Trump’s speech a week ago, which created a dark and foreboding picture of America, Hillary Clinton underscored its diversity and idealism in crafting her 57-minute address.
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In fact, she said little about being the first woman in the history of the country to be a major party nominee. “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.
But while there wasn’t anything really new, there was something clear: Hillary Clinton and her team are definitely OK with making this election all about Trump.
Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Last week, the person who wrote Melania Trump’s RNC speech admitted she unknowingly used quotes from Michelle Obama’s DNC speech in 2008.
Responding to a discussion about the topic on Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly’s show, in which the strategies of each candidate was discussed, Trump tweeted: “You have no idea what my strategy on Isis is, and neither does Isis (a good thing)”. “Tonight, we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more flawless union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president”, she said.
“I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans, and independents”, she added. “We will become stronger when Clinton becomes President”.
Clinton was introduced by her daughter, Chelsea, who said her mother is someone “who knows women’s rights are human rights, and who knows that LGBT rights are human rights – here at home and around the world”.
“If Bernie is not the Democratic nominee, then I will certainly leave the Democrat party”, one Sanders supporter said. Police officers and firefighters who run toward danger. The protests, however, have been smaller and less violent than feared. A full roll-call vote on Tuesday, which some anxious might only spotlight party division, turned into a show of unity, as Clinton and Sanders supporters teamed up to deliver their state’s delegate totals. He mostly left Trump alone, and instead recounted his courtship of Hillary, but notably, never directly referencing his marital troubles.
“And here’s how: Wall Street, corporations, and the super-rich are going to start paying their fair share of taxes”, Clinton said.
And just this Thursday, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that he was “honored that [President Obama] would plagiarize a line” from Trump Jr.’s speech at the RNC.
She was standing onstage here, dressed immaculately in a white pantsuit with sleek blonde hair, aware that this moment would be replayed and reviewed for the duration of her life and beyond. Many of her statements were lies and fabrications!
‘Crooked Hillary Clinton mentioned me 22 times in her very long and very boring speech.
Clinton touched on burning domestic issues such as immigration, raging gun violence, rising health-care costs, and equal pay for women.
He was her biggest cheerleader, reciting a resume of her accomplishments, referring to her as “the best darn change-maker I ever met in my entire life”.
“I think it’s fair to say that no one is more disappointed than I am”, Sanders said to the crowd, some of whom were in tears, as he officially threw his support behind Clinton.
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Clinton also rejected much of the Trump rhetoric that has been a constant on the trail, while mocking him as a thin-skinned candidate who “loses his cool” at the slightest provocation. “When he’s gotten a tough question from a reporter”.
