Tim Kaine of Virginia, will attempt to return attention to their positive economic message on Saturday, with campaign stops through economically struggling areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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“The fact that they’re a candidate qualifies them”, he said according to Time magazine. Having the best résumé, doing the ideal interview and even providing the most stellar references (“Applicant saved me from a burning building once and makes a damn good cup of coffee; hire him!”) does not always guarantee that you’ll get the job.
Trump: Hang on, we’ll tell them it was opposite day. “Because when more than 90 percent of the gains have gone to the top 1 percent, that’s where the money is”.
Hillary Clinton has the heavier lift.
From the summer of 2015, many Americans have to grapple with the notion of a Donald Trump candidacy for president.
Former Secretary of State Clinton delivered an upbeat keynote address at the Democratic convention on Thursday night, as she became the first woman to accept the presidential nomination from a major party. Like them, she and Mr Kaine will ride through parts of the American heartland hit hardest by the decline in manufacturing and traditional industry. I don’t think we’re in decline.
“Really, we beat her by a lot”.
Just over 3 million people watched Clinton on Fox. Hillary blew it the last time. I know what you’re thinking because I’m thinking it, too: How can any American possibly be undecided? She did, and that was all.
Clinton said Trump’s name 16 times in her speech – plus four mentions of his lines of clothing and home goods.
“There is no doubt in my mind that every election in our democracy is important in its own way but I can’t think of an election that is more important, certainly in my lifetime”, Clinton told a rally in Philadelphia on Friday.
The convention provided hours of glowing tributes to Clinton, including deeply personal testimonials from her husband, daughter Chelsea Clinton and Obama. Or in 2000, when she had the same job but also had to convince America that Al Gore was an actual human and not a cyborg from Skynet dead set on ruling the nation through numbers, fear and boredom? Or how about 2008, when she had to swallow her pride and speak on behalf of Barack Obama after that primary where she was supposed to be the “inevitable candidate”? That is an approach rooted in a U.S. tradition of bipartisan support for institutions such as North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, whose value and future Trump says should not be taken for granted.
“Clinton’s net favourability improved by nine points over the last month”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took her newly energized White House bid on the road for a tour of crucial “Rust Belt” states Pennsylvania and OH, but the campaign’s focus was clouded by a newly disclosed cyber attack.
Under Mr Trump, however, Republicans have presented their fellow Americans with an utterly dystopian perspective in which the country is facing an nearly apocalyptic crisis and there is only one man who “alone” offers a way out.
Rallying in Colorado, Donald Trump denounced Clinton’s convention speech as “full of lies” and said he’s starting to agree with those calling for Clinton to be locked up. Geez, I just can’t choose between Clinton’s plan to help the middle class and Trump’s plan to wage nuclear war because Katy Perry blocked him on Twitter. Then we’ll know she’s in serious trouble.
In his valedictory speech Wednesday night, Obama quoted Reagan’s description of the country as a “shining city on a hill” and contrasted it with Donald Trump’s nightmare vision of “a divided crime scene”.
However, a loss in Pennsylvania would mean Trump would have to find wins in such Midwestern industrial states as MI (last won by a Republican in 1988), Minnesota (1972) and Wisconsin (1984).
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The 68-year-old Democrat portrays Trump as a threat to democracy, and is seeking to both woo moderate Republicans repelled by the former reality TV star and shore up a coalition with progressives on the left of her party.
