The Democratic event, packed with celebrities and well-received speeches by President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton, had reached more viewers than the Republicans for each of the first three nights of their respective conventions.
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“I’ve been saying let’s just beat her on November 8”, he said, “but you know what?”
“We don’t resent success in America but we do resent people who take advantage of others in order to line their own pockets”, said Clinton, addressing local officials and employees on the factory floor. She embraced the Sanders reformers (“Your cause is our cause”) nailed Trump’s pessimism, unreliability and fear-mongering and effectively linked humble family beginnings with a desire to help the disadvantaged and a determination to do that by changing laws and enacting programs.
Mrs Clinton is in the midst of a post-convention campaign bus tour through the battleground states of OH and Pennsylvania.
Clinton’s convention, of course, had its own burdens, and there was plenty of time spent bashing Trump.
He also accused Clinton of being dishonest about his abilities as a campaigner.
At the same time, the former first daughter said she was “disturbed” by the GOP convention last week, and praised her mother for not “engaging in divisive, bigoted rhetoric”.
Heading into Clinton’s final day in Philadelphia, the Trump campaign circulated a fundraising email urging supporters to avoid watching Clinton’s acceptance speech “unless you want to be lied to, belittled and attacked for your beliefs”. “It was so exciting but I have to tell you it was also kind of overwhelming”.
Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said the newly-disclosed breach affected a Democratic National Committee voter analysis programme used by the campaign and other organisations.
Donald Trump enjoyed a bump in the polls immediately following the Republican National Convention (RNC) last week. While there were many light-hearted moments and warm family stories told from the stage at Trump’s convention, speakers focused heavily on challenges America faces and encouraged delegates to call for Clinton’s imprisonment.
Photographers stand as Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, is seen speaking on a screen. He described the Republican gathering as “dark and depressing”.
“The American economy has climbed back up the ladder to climb out of it, but we have a long way to go”, Kaine said. But he insisted, “We don’t have a single issue in this country that we can’t tackle”, and said job creation would be the top priority if Clinton wins the White House.
For more on the biggest takeaways from the Democratic Convention, CCTV Ameica’s Elaine Reyes interviewed Eleanor Clift, Political analyst of The Daily Beast.
Thursday marked the end of two straight weeks of high-octane political conventions – topped off with Hillary Clinton accepting the Democratic nomination.
And Clinton offered an open hand to backers of Sanders, saying, “I’ve heard you”.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT): I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. “Your cause is our cause”.
But it’s this number that has Clinton’s strategist seeing inroads with Republicans: 17% of Republican registered voters in CNN’s latest poll had an unfavorable view of Donald Trump and 23% of registered voters who identify as conservative said the same.
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Speaker after speaker cast Trump as intolerant, inexperienced and unsafe, including the Pakistani-immigrant father of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq, who waved the Constitution and remarked that Trump “has sacrificed nothing”.
