President Barack Obama gave a ringing endorsement to Hillary Clinton last night.
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In an interview with ABC News on day four of the Democratic National Convention, Joel Benenson, a chief strategist and pollster with Hillary Clinton’s campaign, addressed the growing public scrutiny over the Democratic presidential nominee’s lack of press conferences.
Obama speech anchored a night of celebrity speakers, not only from the Democratic Party, but also from the worlds of business and entertainment, who spoke in support of Clinton. “There has never been a man or a woman more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America”, he said of his former rival for the White House.
“Hillary’s got her share of critics”, Obama said.
The coverage of Obama’s speech and Hillary Clinton’s appearance on stage spilled into the typically lower-rated 11 p.m. hour, but the ratings results indicate that most viewers kept watching until the very end of the evening.
The Trump campaign also released statements detailing criticisms against the Obama administration, saying its policies “unleashed ISIS”, and left “Syria in chaos”, “Libya in ruins”, and “Egypt in disarray”.
Ohio state Rep. Alicia Reece, president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus and a Clinton delegate, said she heard some complaints when a few people booed Michelle Obama when she mentioned Clinton’s name Monday night.
Clinton began her speech thanking her opponent, Bernie Sanders, which led to chants of “Bernie, Bernie, Bernie”. “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”.
In a gesture of party unity, Sanders put forward Clinton’s name on Tuesday night to make her the first woman nominated for president by a major USA party.
“Today, Donald Trump once again took Russia’s side”, Panetta said. “He asked the Russians to engage in American politics”.
“America is already great. America is already strong”, Obama added.
“I don’t trust her word and I know her record”, Fagan said of Clinton.
“Preach!” members of the crowd shouted. He made a compelling case that, compared with what a Trump presidency would look like, continuity is looking better by the day.
He said American values, not race, religion or political preference, were what made the United States great.
She’s locked in a tight general election contest with Republican Donald Trump, an unconventional candidate and political novice.
Trump has proposed temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country and building a wall on the border with Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants. And when we are talking about Donald Trump we are not talking about the Democratic convention.
“He wants us to fear the future and to fear each other”, she said.
He described Clinton as a person who listens, keeps her cool and treats everybody with respect.
The November election is not a “typical election”, but a “big” and “more fundamental choice” for the American people, Obama told some 5,000 delegates of the DNC at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.
Trump, a former reality TV star, has portrayed the country as being under siege from illegal immigrants, crime and terrorism and as losing influence in the world. “He’s trying to tell us he cares about the middle class?” In 2015 Sanders announced he was no longer an Independent and meant to run as a Democrat in all future elections. Gabby Giffords and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to Vice President Joe Biden and Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine. “I’ve seen her holding the hands of mothers anxious about how to feed their kids, how they’ll get them the health care they need”.
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Trump, promoting himself as the “law and order” candidate, has attempted to frame Clinton as lacking good judgment on national security.
