Shortly before Obama and Kaine spoke, Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent Michael Bloomberg urged voters to back Clinton, calling her the “sane, competent person”.
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Clinton quoted former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who said, “The only thing to fear is fear itself”.
“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.
Clinton smiles during her speech during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
OH delegates Cynthia Cox deBoutinkhar, right, cries as Former Democratic Presidential candidate, Sen.
Millions of Americans have tuned in to watch this month’s party conventions, with the Democratic get-together is ahead in terms of ratings over last week’s Republican event.
On Thursday, Clinton’s goal was to paint a more hopeful, optimistic vision of a nation that comes together and is, as her campaign slogan puts it, “stronger together”.
“Now we are clear-eyed about what our country is up against”, she said.
But Trump tweeted that the speech had failed to address the threat posed by radical Islam, making the former secretary of state unfit to lead the country.
The developments followed the leaking of DNC emails earlier in the week that pointed to a pro-Clinton bias by party officials during her primary contest against Bernie Sanders.
Clinton – who described her nomination as a “milestone” – presented a more upbeat view of the U.S. than the dark vision Trump offered last week.
She told supporters in a West Philadelphia arena the coming election is the most important one in her lifetime.
But Democrats view Trump’s provocative statements and the failed “Never Trump” movement as leading indicators in their ability to win over college-educated Republicans who have been wary of the businessman’s foreign policy views or incendiary statements about Mexican-Americans, Muslims and women. “Those were actually Donald Trump’s words in Cleveland”.
Trump took to Facebook Friday morning where he described Clinton’s speech as “an insulting collection of cliches and recycled rhetoric” and one “delivered from a fantasy universe, not the reality we live in today”.
The tit-for-tat comes after Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, was criticized last week after being busted brazenly pinch from a speech First Lady Michelle Obama gave at the Democratic National Convention in 2008.
“I get that some people just don’t know what to make of me”, she said.
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Trump didn’t just fall into Hillary Clinton’s trap.
