Kaine, in introducing Clinton, told the wildly friendly crowd, “weren’t you proud” about how “optimistic” and “upbeat” the Democrat convention was, a contrast to the Republican convention in Cleveland that was a journey “through Donald Trump’s mind, and that is a very frightening place”.
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“After closing the gap to single digits last week, Trump’s post-convention bounce has disappeared”, said RABA Research’s John Del Cecato, a Democratic partner with the firm. Clinton’s team has said the hack reveals a problem with Trump and his relationship with Russian Federation, who intelligence experts suspect of being responsible.
Despite a petition to bar Trump from the security briefings which has garnered over 100,000 Signatures, it is likely both candidates will be in receipt of America’s most classified national security issues by the end of the week. She did it with a call for unity, particularly against Donald Trump, saying, “Enough with the bigotry and bombast”.
Trump and his campaign have described the Democratic Party convention speakers as painting too pretty a picture of the state of the nation.
“Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again – well, he could start by actually making things in America again”.
But the “America I know” refrain, and its variations, is a common phrase used by former United States presidents including Mr Obama himself and also George W. Bush. (This was a frequent chant at the Convention.) At the same time, she tried to reach the voters who have dismissed her as the candidate of a corrupted establishment, a rigger of primaries.
The more casual format of the upcoming barnstorm suits Kaine just fine, said the VP candidate, who explained he felt “weird” being on the big convention stage because, “I don’t like wearing a tie that much”. Donald Trump’s not offering real change. We’re not. Don’t let anyone tell you we don’t have what it takes.
We also know that another signature Clinton characteristic is her resilience, how she picked herself up after losing the health care fight in 1994, how she reclaimed her marriage in the wake of scandal, and how she became a trusted partner of the man who defeated her in 2008. “She tweeted:”#crookedHillary doesn’t understand that there is only ONE President not a village of Presidents. And, with a decent number of young women voters still undecided, she could have referenced an emotionally charged story about a woman who suffered because she couldn’t get access to an abortion. She was wrong about the Iraq war (but that, I suspect-sadly-was more of a political vote than a reasoned one).
In her speech, Clinton points out, “Freedom and equality, justice and opportunity”. For all Americans together.
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Mike Pence, Trump’s running mate, wasn’t mentioned at all. But whilst the Democrat nominee’s speech might not have the fiery rhetoric of the man she wants to replace in the White House – and nor does she have the natural oratory talent of her husband – her address was still clever. For a moment, the Presidential campaign nearly looked like fun.
