The president tapped on his chest and added: “That’s what matters”. “There are a lot of voters out there who are enticed by what Trump is promising without understanding that the man doesn’t believe in anything, never really has and that’s scary”, said Mitch Crane, chair of the Sussex County Democrats. When it came to helping working families, he said, “That is Hillary Clinton’s life story!”.
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Biden also had harsh words for Donald Trump. “I mean, Donald Trump’s whole career says you had better not”. “Äs he’s serving overseas”, the senator said, “I trust Hilary Clinton with my son’s life”. “It’s really heartbreaking.” Guidelines in a memorandum from the USA attorney general in 2013 state that the federal government would rely on local authorities for low-level marijuana cases.
“This election is not a choice between a Democrat and a Republican”. Kaine’s son is a Marine set to be deployed to Europe.
This article includes material from Reuters and the Associated Press. He said the state of affairs in Washington is “one of the few regrets of my presidency”.
With approval ratings topping 50 percent, aides said, Obama is in a desirable political position heading into the fall to act as Clinton’s surrogate-in-chief. It doesn’t matter to him that illegal immigration and the crime rate are as low as they’ve been in decades, because he’s not offering any real solutions to those issues.
Running mate Tim Kaine and Vice President Joe Biden are in the lineup, too. She ultimately selected Virginia Sen. When Bloomberg first hit the stage, both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters wondered aloud why this one percenter was speaking at the DNC.
“I believe we need a president who is a problem-solver, not a bomb-thrower”, said Bloomberg. “He did it again during his speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, saying “[Donald Trump] is trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. Give me a break.
Obama said in a 2012 speech in MI: “I want this to be a big, bold, generous country where everybody gets a fair shot, everybody is doing their fair share, everybody is playing by the same set of rules”.
Kaine said his son would “protect and defend the very North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies that Donald Trump now says he wants to abandon”. We don’t fear the future; we shape it, we embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
Kaine said he’s a progressive in the conservative South, which “may be different” than being a progressive elsewhere in the U.S.
“America has changed over the years”, Obama said. “Trump says there’s no drought in California. If you want someone with a lifelong track record of fighting for higher wages, better benefits, a fairer tax code, a bigger voice for workers, and stronger regulations on Wall Street, then you should vote for Hillary Clinton”.
Biden’s address preceded a speech by Bloomberg, who took on his fellow New Yorker by questioning his temperament and fitness for office and praising Clinton as a “sane, competent person with global experience”. That’s not the America I know.
Referring to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week, the US President said that the narrative there was a “deeply pessimistic vision”.
“Biden saying “malarkey” back in ’16”.
Also pulling no punches against the GOP standard-bearer was President Barack Obama. “He’s doing a better job than Obama”.
Clinton joined Obama on-stage after his address. Seeing the President speak was the highlight of this convention for me.
Obama says the country is “full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity”.
“What we do know is that the Russians hack our systems, not just government systems, but private systems”, he said. You’ve got to get in the arena with her, because democracy isn’t a spectator sport.
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The undiplomatic description comes as American authorities finger his government for a hacking incident allegedly seeking to influence the United States presidential elections in yet another intensification of tensions between the historic adversaries.
