“It’s a speech delivered from a fantasy universe, not the reality we live in today”, Trump said in a statement posted to social media. “Because it’s not just a detail if it’s your kid-if it’s your family”. But you know what?
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“I don’t have to be so nice anymore”.
Two million more viewers tuned in to watch Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland than watched Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
Ms Clinton says America is stronger together, Mr Miller noted. It was like taking Sominex.
Donald Trump has no political survival instincts.
Making history as the first female major U.S. party nominee for president, Hillary Clinton said Thursday that America faces “a moment of reckoning”, and aggressively cast Republican nominee Donald Trump as a divisive figure stoking fear across the country.
Like the convention itself, Clinton’s almost hour-long speech was created to showcase her life in the policy trenches, fighting not for revolution but for change nonetheless. Bernie Sanders, saying: “I’ve heard you. No, Donald, you don’t”, Clinton said. Later, he tweeted that Clinton’s vision is “a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety”. “That’s the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for America”, she said. “Let me ask you, if you have read the US Constitution?” “(…) He wants us to fear the future and fear each other”.
The first days of the convention were plagued by sustained dissent from supporters of Clinton’s failed primary challenger Bernie Sanders who booed the very mention of Clinton’s name – including in an opening prayer.
He said Clinton “can’t hide” from her 25 years in public life.
Pledging to be a president for “all Americans”, the former secretary of state received thunderous cheers from thousands of delegates in the Democratic National Convention where she called for unity in a nation at a “state of reckoning”. “Our way of life is under threat by radical Islam and Hillary Clinton can not even bring herself to say the words”.
Clinton also said Trump lacks the temperament for the presidency, adding that “a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.
Clinton’s moment in the spotlight came eight years later than she might have hoped-in her first White House campaign in 2008 she was defeated in her party’s primary race by Barack Obama.
The start of the Democratic convention was overshadowed by the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who quit over leaked emails showing party officials favoured Clinton over her primary rival Bernie Sanders, a United States senator of Vermont.
This was a convention in which the word “we” was invoked by speaker after speaker, from President Obama to the Rev. William Barber, as a talisman and a commitment.
Clutching a microphone decked out in a sparkling United States flag, Perry sang two songs that Clinton could easily take as anthems – her hit “Roar” and her latest single “Rise”.
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NEWSERS: Say what you will about Trump’s news conferences, at least he has them.
