Hillary Clinton said Sunday that Donald Trump repaid the “ultimate sacrifice” of a U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq with insults and degrading comments about Muslims, as the soldier’s bereaved father pressured Republican Party leaders to distance themselves from the GOP presidential nominee.
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“She can’t stoop to his level”, Jacobs says.
I have spent the last two weeks deeply immersed in first the Republican convention and then the Democratic convention, and I have come away of the firm (and unexpected) opinion that I want Democrats waving the USA flag right now and saying: “We’re America – not those white nationalist authoritarian creeps”. As Clinton ridiculed Trump, she zeroed in on Americans’ greatest fear about a Trump presidency: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”. And she promised a campaign rooted in a moral challenge to her opponent: “Yes, the world is watching what we do”. He made student loans, global warming and opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership the centerpieces of Democratic politics, and then he watched in wonder, and his youthful warriors watched in horror, as Hillary Clinton, reluctantly and awkwardly, adopted his positions.
That last line was the most retweeted line of Clinton’s entire speech. “I’m a New Yorker and I know a con when I see one”.
For disgruntled Sanders’ supporters, I say let’s focus on what is, not what you hoped would be.
Sanders said he will be campaigning “vigorously” on Clinton’s behalf, pitching her campaign and combating Trump’s message across the country this year.
She said her family were builders of a better life and a better future for their children, using whatever tools they had and “whatever God gave them”. “(Bob) Casey”, John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign manager, said during a meeting with the commonwealth’s convention delegation earlier this week.
“This is a moment of reckoning for our country”. Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart.
“Clinton’s large lead in the Philadelphia area is offsetting losses to Trump in other parts of the state”, said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Research Center. “No wonder people are anxious and looking for reassurance – looking for steady leadership”.
In all likelihood, the next president of the United States will be the least popular candidate ever to be elected as commander in chief.
“When any barrier falls in America, it clears the way for everyone”, the 68-year-old said in a speech that capped the four-day nominating convention.
FiveThirtyEight reported that Clinton would have been the least liked party nominee in modern history if it weren’t for Trump.
Her record as secretary of state – particularly her role in the USA intervention in Libya, the Benghazi terror attacks, her role in the Iran nuclear deal and her overtures to China – were central lines of attack throughout the GOP’s own convention last week, including in speeches by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
About 40 percent of those surveyed said they liked how Democrats described the state of things in America today during their convention, but 45 percent disliked it, CBS said.
In Colorado Springs, Trump at times seemed to brush off the fierce convention-week Democratic criticism, which went so far as to question his sanity. The first two days were all about locking down the base and the lineup of speakers on Monday and Tuesday was what you’d expect at a Democratic convention. Who would insult people because of their religion, their ethnicity, their disability. He also has been accused of being too easy on Vladimir Putin, the Russian president whom Trump has openly admired. Many Americans will cast their votes with little enthusiasm. For months, we’ve heard about Donald Trump’s Rust Belt strategy, by which he would parlay a blue-collar coalition into blue-state pickups like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Neither of the living Republican presidents – George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush – attended the GOP gathering or endorsed Trump.
Today’s Democratic Party bears nearly no resemblance to the one Bill Clinton transformed in 1992, and indeed in today’s light, which shines disapprovingly on Wall Street and the bond market that Clinton embraced and the trade deals that Clinton won, both Clinton and the profile of his 1990s party have the musty look of antiques – beloved old artifacts, to be sure, but moldy reminders of faded glories and long-ago triumphs.
But Eric Thomas of Sharon tells me you lose your voice, if you don’t vote, “I’m going to vote for Donald Trump”.
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The election will be held on 8 November.
