Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine says he is “worried” about certain aspects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
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Adams is among those who say the “Never Hillary” crowd, a group that is largely younger and white, isn’t considering the struggles black Americans still face every day.
After a video introduction, narrated by Morgan Freeman, Hillary Clinton took the stage and hugged her daughter Chelsea Clinton. “But we are not afraid”, she said.
Clinton tried to pay tribute to Sanders, but his supporters were not satisfied.
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, an African-American and close ally of Clinton, was telling the story of his late father – a share-cropper in SC – on the convention’s first day when Sanders supporters started chanting “No TPP” and holding up signs opposing the trade pact.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday, Trump has taken a two-percentage point lead over Clinton, marking the first time he has been ahead since early May.
Bernie or bust-ers be damned.
“Herstory”, read a handwritten sign held up by a delegate.
“The optics were not pretty, but I couldn’t be upset with them”.
“We have to be responsive to them, like we are to everybody else”, Smikle said. “I am so glad these people are under our tent”.
Clinton also trained fire on Trump’s dystopian view of America. “They don’t tell you why”, Clinton said. “And that’s a message we have to communicate – if we haven’t done a good enough job, we’ll do better”. Clinton’s taking on Donald and making more room in the tent. “Many of her statements were lies and fabrications!”
“At the end of the day, (Sanders’) coalition looked too much like a modern day Woodstock, and not enough like the Obama coalition it takes to win the primaries and the general”, said Boyd Brown, a Democratic National Committeeman from SC who supported former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
She rolled through the challenges of this era: stagnant wages, terrorist attacks, climate change, student debt, laying out promises for tackling them as a roomful of supporters waved USA flags, chanted her name, and drowned out periodic heckling from left-wing protesters.
“You wouldn’t have expected this stuff to kind of break out along racial lines”, Bryant said.
Clinton says she is.
“I believe that when we have millions of hardworking immigrants contributing to our economy, it would be self-defeating and inhumane to kick them out”, she said thus vehemently opposing the move of the rival Trump campaign to deport illegal immigrants.
“I certainly know that with her as our commander-in-chief, our foreign relations will not be reduced to a business transaction, I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture”, said Allen.
Clinton, who was still working on her remarks as late as Thursday morning, echoed domestic proposals she made during her successful primary campaign, aides said, an agenda ranging from increased college assistance to a higher minimum wage to equal pay for women in the workplace. She called on Sanders’ supporters to help her implement the progressive platform he pushed the party to adopt this week. She reminded them of what Obama said the night before, “Don’t boo”.
America’s significant population of religious zealots might find fault with her decision not to focus on the official “In god we trust”, but there was a clear intention to distinguish her message from the exclusionary and overtly negative display of the Republicans and Donald Trump at their convention in Cleveland last week.
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Opinion polls show a potentially tight race in OH and Pennsylvania, both of which President Barack Obama won in the 2012 election.
