But a particularly large bump for Clinton is not out of the question, seeing as speakers at her convention included President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and a number of other high-profile figures, while the reception to Trump’s RNC – which was avoided by many Republican Party leaders – was somewhat more mixed. “That is quite extraordinary”. 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. “She has to show she is warm, compassionate and trustworthy”.
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The South Dakota delegate to the Democratic National Convention watched Hillary Clinton accept her party’s nomination for president the day her final term on the party’s governing board ended.
He cited a line from Clinton’s speech: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons”. And you know what?
“She can’t have it both ways”, he said.
Cheryl Brown, a California delegate from San Bernardino who is black, condemned what she called the aggressive behavior of some Sanders delegates, saying they jumped on tables and shoved people at the state’s hotel the night that Sanders moved that the convention nominate Clinton by acclamation.
Evoking Reagan is nothing new for Obama, who also praised the Republican when he was running for president eight years ago and drew plenty of heat from his own party for doing so.
“She is incredibly smart”. “I would really like to see her win”. “She assesses with detail all the policy implications and gets to the root cause of a problem and the guts of the solution better than anyone I have seen, and that includes Obama and Bill Clinton”, Weiner notes. Stay tuned to ABC7 Eyewitness News this week for more live reports from the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. “You sort of can’t do both at the same time”. PHOTOS: The 2016 DNC in Philadelphia”I think it’s a matter of ideologies, I think as you’re younger, you’re more idealistic and when you get older, you become more realistic on what’s possible”, said Bernie Sanders supporter Meagan Fishell.
The come-hither to those Republicans recoiling from Mr Trump was put plainly enough by Mr Obama. Instead, he has frequently disrupted his own campaign – most recently by suggesting that Russian Federation should hack into Clinton’s private email server.
But her remarks signal a plan to focus attention on pockets of down-and-out communities which have felt ignored by the slow and erratic economic recovery.
Clinton, too, should be sharp in her counterattacks, says The Road to the White House author Wayne.
Trump said he was depicting the reporter groveling to him.
“She seems a bit distant, disconnected”.
“Every generation of Americans has come together to make our country freer, fairer, and stronger”.
But Democrats view Trump’s provocative statements and the failed “Never Trump” movement as leading indicators in their ability to win over college-educated Republicans who have been wary of the businessman’s foreign policy views or incendiary statements about Mexican-Americans, Muslims and women.
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.
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When asked about the mother of a State Department official killed in Benghazi, Libya, who blamed Clinton for her son’s death, Clinton said her “heart goes out” to the families and that she didn’t “hold any ill feeling for someone” who has lost a child and recalls events differently.
