The tour will take them through Rust Belt hubs like Pittsburgh and Youngstown.
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That territory, between the two convention cities in this presidential year, is where the battle will be fiercest because that’s the cradle of discontent.
Georgetown University professor Stephen Wayne says in the tumultuous fight against Republican nominee Donald Trump, being the even-keeled, experienced candidate may not be such a negative as the race closes in on the election.
He added the Democratic convention was “a very good convention” and that Clinton addressed some “very, very important points” in her speech.
The conventions have passed without any change to that big picture, and that leaves Clinton as the favourite going into the final three months, it said. She represents everything that Sanders’ supporters loathe about the Democratic party – entrenched elitism by the establishment. The candidate for the way things have been.
So, after conventions, candidates numbers increase.
In a well-received Democratic convention speech, Muslim lawyer Khizr Khan said Trump has “sacrificed nothing and no one” for his country.
Aaccording to Goodwin, Hillary’s nomination could be a crack in the glass ceiling for other groups who have historically been “excluded from power” and “dignity”. When he’s questioned, Trump’s answer to how he’s going to “make America great again” – the theme of his campaign – is vague, as if explanation is unnecessary. “That’s just not how I was raised”.
“As you know”, she said, “I’m not one of those people”.
And that deep personal divide is also a sharp fork in the road for Americans. The reason Ms. Clinton would have been inconceivable is a simple one: The former senator and secretary of state is a woman. What happened in Philadelphia should be a source of optimism for the many Americans who despair that their politicians lack the will and courage to tackle the country’s epidemic of mass shootings and the bloody minded commitment to guns that underlies it.
Part of that effort involves focusing on the threat Democrats say Donald Trump would pose to the country as president. Trump’s unpredictability and volatility are a handicap.
Trump, a 70-year-old reality TV show host who has never held political office, is running just ahead of Clinton in a RealClearPolitics average of recent national opinion polls. “Every time I mention her, everyone screams ‘Lock her up!”
In a combative Democratic National Convention speech in which Clinton name-checked her Republican opponent 22 times, she said of Trump, “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.
“While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr. Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things”, said Trump. The irresistible force will meet the immovable object.
“It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton and I have disagreements on a number of issues, and what I intend to do the day after Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States is to do everything I can to make sure that she goes forward as progressively that she can, maintaining the very strong Democratic progressive platform that we passed together”, Sanders said. They appropriated the rhetoric and imagery of patriotism and American exceptionalism, something that used to be a Republican franchise. The minority of voters with open minds will decide this election and, with the set-piece conventions over, it may be those face-to-face encounters that will settle the matter.
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