“Tonight, we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more ideal union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president”, Hillary Clinton said to a roar of applause at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Her comments came after the Republican nominee refused to back down from his criticism of the Gold Star parents’ remarks.
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In her speech Thursday night at the Wells Fargo Center, Clinton blasted Trump for stating that he knows more than American generals about the Islamic State.
Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran who lost her legs in combat, took on Trump’s readiness to be commander in chief, saying “I didn’t put my life on the line to defend our democracy so you could invite Russian Federation to interfere with it”. “That’s just not how I was raised”.
Indeed, the Democratic convention has been a visual ode those mantras: The first African-American president symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman.
“Am I not allowed to respond?”
“He’s taken the Republican Party a long way from “Morning in America” to midnight in America”. Joined by running mate Sen.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there”.
“It’s true”, she said.
Many Sanders supporters said she still has not earned their vote in November but she has three-and-a-half months to win them over.
She said her vision of America is in “sharp contrast” to what Trump is “laying out, because I don’t think we’re weak”.
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While Donald Trump has latched on to the broken shards of American dream, Hillary is clear that she is here to mend it, not break it further apart. She lacks the easy charm of her husband.
That ad uses video clip from Trump’s attack on Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in protest of her questioning of him at a debate of Republican presidential contenders last August when he said afterward that blood was “coming out of her eyes, coming out of her wherever”.
“I was very shocked to see how much anger there is in our party”, Ivey said.
Visiting Johnstown Wire Technologies, a factory with a record of creating jobs and investing in America, Clinto highlighted her plans to invest United States dollars 10 billion to strengthen manufacturing communities like Johnstown.
Senior Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, remained silent on Sunday, as did vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, even as calls mounted for them to denounce their party nominee – including from Khizr Khan.
A few Republicans spoke out: John Kasich, the OH governor who sought the GOP presidential nomination, said on Twitter, “There’s only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honor and respect”.
Late Saturday night, Trump released a statement calling Humayun Khan “a hero” but disputing his father’s characterization. “We wrote it together”.
The week’s most powerful validation came Wednesday night from President Barack Obama, her victorious primary rival in 2008.
Afterward, Chelsea returned to proudly introduce “my mother, my hero, and our next president, Hillary Clinton”.
Clinton was likely to offer a similarly upbeat message, drawing on an idea that has driven her throughout her career, that all Americans should be given the chance to fulfil their potential, a campaign aide said.
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“He’s not temperamentally fit to be president and commander in chief”, she said.
