Hillary Clinton capped a four-day convention celebration with a plea for national unity and tolerance.
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Despite Sanders’ endorsement of Clinton, his two speeches at the convention and many more to his supporters and to several state delegations, many just aren’t ready to get behind Clinton and subscribe to her “Stronger Together” campaign theme.
“America is once again at a moment of reckoning”.
“I do tremble before those who would scapegoat other Americans, who would insult people because of their religion, their ethnicity their disability”, she told parishioners in a Cleveland church on Sunday morning. It truly is up to us.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took her newly energized White House bid on the road on Friday for a tour of crucial “Rust Belt” states Pennsylvania and OH, but the campaign’s focus was clouded by a newly disclosed cyber attack.
A separate Reuters/Ipsos survey that provided respondents with the option to choose from Clinton, Trump, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, has Clinton and Trump tied at 37 percentage points.
“Hillary’s vision is a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety”, he wrote.
Clinton is playing up economic opportunity, diversity and national security. Their goal is to turn out the coalition of minority, female and young voters that twice elected Obama while blunting some of the expected losses among white men.
Donald Trump has given the Democrats a lot of openings and they tried to take advantage of every single one of them last week.
“There is no other Donald Trump”, Clinton said in her acceptance speech last week in Philadelphia.
Professor Simon Jackman, the CEO of the United States Studies Centre and a former professor of political science and statistics at Stanford University, said the Catholic vote was becoming more important in the US.
Selling that message will depend on whether Clinton can reach voters walled off by longstanding distrust.
SEN. TIM KAINE (D), Vice Presidential Nominee: And when Donald Trump is basically trying to encourage them to do it with respect to the us election, I think an very bad lot of people will see that and say that that is temperamentally disqualification for the office.
With her husband ex-president Bill Clinton in tow, the former first lady, top diplomat, ex-senator and now Democratic presidential candidate took her seat on a blue bus that meandered over 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from Philadelphia to Columbus, Ohio.
The event was meticulously created to craft her image as a caring grandmother tough enough to battle terrorists and unite a party still unsettled by a fractious primary process. “If you don’t have any sense of empathy than that, then I’m not sure you can learn it”. “Your cause is our cause”. One held a bright red sign that stood out among the sea of flags and campaign placards, “Keep your promises”.
Trump, meanwhile, is just as unpopular as he was before the conventions, it said.
Meanwhile, Trump encourages Russians to hack us and talks about how he wants to hit the DNC speakers he didn’t like.
In a first for a Democratic convention, a number of Republican economic and foreign policy leaders hammered home the point.
Trump must prove that his claims that “I alone” can fix what ails America aren’t the words of a snake-oil salesman who doesn’t know his own limits – or the government’s constitutional ones.
“I knew Ronald Reagan”.
Ms Clinton is likely to face a tough challenge in such states from Republican nominee Donald Trump, a NY businessman who is trying to win white working-class voters with rhetoric against free trade and illegal immigration.
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It was necessary Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention to see tribute paid to fallen American soldiers who are Muslim, as Khizr Khan, the father of one such soldier, did.
