An email hack on the Democratic National Committee before the convention showed that party officials showed favour to Mrs Clinton and tried to undermine Mr Sanders’ campaign, further painting Mrs Clinton as an insider politician.
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Much of Clinton’s address to Democrats gathered in Philadelphia for their party’s convention was focused on perhaps her biggest weakness come November – a tough public image forged over decades of withering political trench warfare.
Donald Trump was thoroughly unimpressed with the acceptance speech Hillary Clinton gave Thursday night when she became the first woman presidential nominee for a major US party during the Democratic National Convention.
Sanders delegates furious with Clinton’s nomination have protested all week at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with various degrees of success. She struck an inclusive tone, trying to appeal directly to supporters of US Senator Bernie Sanders and even Republicans with references to President Reagan and US Senator John McCain.
Clinton closed her speech with mentions of the Founding Fathers and their “selfless passion to build something better for all who follow”.
Turning back to Trump, Clinton questioned whether the Republican nominee’s temperament was suited to the presidency. “Well, you know a fearless Democratic President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt came up with the ideal rebuke to trump 80 years ago”. It basically said that convention last week, what I heard out of that convention wasn’t Republican and it surely wasn’t conservative. On Thursday night, in front of a national television audience, Clinton will get her chance to respond to the charges Trump and other Republicans leveled at her in Cleveland last week. “Millions of Democrats will join our movement, because we are going to fix the system so it works fairly, and justly, for each and every American”.
“Time and again you’ve picked me up, and I hope sometimes I’ve picked you up too”.
Trump wasn’t the only one to go after Clinton’s tone.
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“And I want history to be made when she becomes president of the United States”, he said. “Here’s how: It’s because she never ever forgets who she’s fighting for”. The family is Muslim, and the elder Khan delivered a devastating attack on Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the country.
