It’s truly is up to us.
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The Democratic presidential nominee, 68, previously spoke during the convention via satellite video after she officially secured the nomination on Monday.
“If Bernie is not the Democratic nominee, then I will certainly leave the Democrat party”, one Sanders supporter said. He loses his cool at the slightest provocation. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”, she charged.
Trump has since insisted he was being sarcastic, but his comments fed Democrats’ contentions that the billionaire businessman is unqualified to be commander-in-chief.
“I was strong for Bernie, and now I’m taking a stand for Trump”, said another.
Clinton says she agrees with families that have told her the economy just isn’t working.
If Trump’s convention speech – nay, his entire convention – was all about him, Clinton’s focused on a message Barack Obama campaigned on in 2007: We need each other to succeed.
Republicans pointed to a Quinnipiac University poll July 19 that showed Clinton with just a 12 percentage-point lead over Trump in ny. “We’re not going to vote out of fear”, she said.
Data compiled by ratings agency Nielsen show the Democratic event in Philadelphia outperforming the Republican convention in Cleveland all three nights so far.
“Unless you want to be lied to, belittled and attacked for your beliefs, don’t watch Hillary’s DNC speech tonight”, Trump’s campaign said in a fundraising email.
Making a bold play for the political center ground in an election year that has seen the hard right and the hard left become louder and more shrill, Clinton vowed to “be a president for Democrats, Republicans, and Independents”. “I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place”, she said. But here’s the sad truth: “There is no other Donald Trump.This is it”. They think he couldn’t possibly mean all the terrible things he says. Tim Kaine, said of the election in an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America”. One of her speech themes, aides said, would be the lessons from her book “It Takes a Village”, where she wrote about the impact a community can have on children. Nielsen measures 10 commercial broadcast and cable networks; PBS separately reported that Clinton drew 3.9 million Thursday, compared with 2.8 million for Trump last week. What are we offering? “The choice is clear”.
Lacking Obama’s sweeping rhetoric or the “feel-your-pain” sensitivity of her husband, Clinton leaned into her wonky image, saying: “I sweat the details of policy”. “We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against”. But we are not afraid. “We have to decide whether we will all work together so we can all rise together”.
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And Clinton offered an open hand to backers of Vermont Sen. And her speech mentioned many of Sanders’ priorities, including free college tuition, a higher minimum wage and higher taxes on Wall Street. “Are there people who are still emotional and wish we didn’t get 3.7 million more votes?”
