On Friday, she will hit the campaign trail with her running mate, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia.
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On Thursday, people familiar with the matter said the FBI is investigating a cyber attack against another Democratic Party group, which may be related to the earlier hack against the DNC.
Nationally, opinion polls show Mr Trump moving into a slight lead after receiving his party’s nomination at the convention in Cleveland.
“I think she picked somebody who’s a lot like Joe Biden, who’s a nice complement, sort of a soft, easy-going kind of guy”, Gelb, 60, said.
“I’m a progressive in the South and that may be different than being a progressive in Vermont”, he said.
Kaine spoke first before an energized crowd of hundreds at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, taking aim at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Many of those gathered in his living room watching her Thursday-night speech said that all the details about her mother growing up poor and abandoned, her father working in a lace factory, her practice of leaving notes for her daughter, Chelsea, when she was on work trips, made people know – and like her – better. Clinton leads in statewide polls in Pennsylvania, but Trump holds a commanding lead among white men who do not have college degrees.
OH and Pennsylvania are among a handful of states that are traditionally viewed as decisive in US presidential elections, since they do not lean heavily either Democratic or Republican.
“We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against”.
Clinton portrayed Trump as a threat to the country, saying “a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.
Trump fired back on Facebook, calling it “a speech from a fantasy universe”.
Trump’s campaign Saturday announced a Monday afternoon event in Columbus, which will be his second OH visit in less than a week.
The US television audience for Clinton’s acceptance speech was smaller than the viewership of Trump’s address a week earlier, according to ratings data released on Friday. Trump drew 32.2 million viewers in his July 21 address at the Republican National Convention.
Economic issues will be crucial as the White House campaign enters its final three-month stretch.
As a senator, Kaine seeks to impose tougher background checks on gun ownership, supports Obama’s proposal of “fast track” for free trade agreements, which Clinton’s formal rival Bernie Sanders criticized to great effect during the Democratic primary race.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that every election is important in its own way, but I can’t think of an election that was more important in my lifetime”, Clinton told thousands of supporters in a West Philadelphia arena. The Kremlin has denied the accusations.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton is taking her freshly energised campaign to become America’s first woman president to the “Rust Belt” states that might decide the fate of the November 8 election. The DCCC confirmed on Friday that it had been the target of a cyber security incident.
