“Well, a great Democratic president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, came up with the flawless rebuke to Trump more than 80 years ago, during a much more perilous time: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'”.
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And she underscored the other side of that catchphrase by warning that Trump would divide the nation. “When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit”.
Protests and chants by Sanders supporters were audible nearly from the beginning of the convention and continued through Clintons speech, though it wasnt clear how numerous attempted interruptions Thursday night came from dissatisfied Sanders voters. I think we can pull together because we are stronger together, and if anybody like him spent a day on the factory floor here, they’d see what teamwork looks like. “Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?” Instead, we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good job can get one. “The family I’m from, well no one had their name on big buildings”, Clinton said in a reference to Trump, whose name is plastered across his properties.
She included a lengthy tribute to Bernie Sanders, whom she praised for having “put economic and social justice issues front and center, where they belong”.
She portrayed Trump as volatile, saying “a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump branded his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech as “boring” and sided with a Colorado crowd that was calling for Clinton to get “locked up”.
Clinton said Trump has taken the Republican party a long way from morning in America to mid-night in America. Trump said in one tweet.
The gavel has sounded, and the final session of the Democratic National Convention is underway.
They say the nomination of a woman candidate by the Democratic Party is likely to encourage Zimbabwean women to seek nomination for the presidential race in 2018 in the southern African nation.
Sanders’ delegates from NY were either resigned to back Clinton, were uncertain or simply said they would not actively work to oppose her.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent, offered a rare endorsement of Clinton and trashed Trump as a “dangerous demagogue”.
Mr Kaine expressed shock that Republican White House nominee Mr Trump would attack Ghazala Khan for not speaking during her husband’s address to the Democratic convention. I want you to know, I’ve heard you.
Former Reagan administration official Doug Elmets announced he was casting his first vote for a Democrat in November, and urged other Republicans who “believe loyalty to our country is more important than loyalty to party” to do the same.
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Speaker after speaker cast Trump as intolerant, inexperienced and unsafe, including the Pakistani-immigrant father of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq, who waved the Constitution and remarked that Trump “has sacrificed nothing”.
