“Donald Trump says, and this is a quote, ‘I know more about ISIS than the generals do”.
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She alleged that the 70-year-old business tycoon wants to divide Americans.
Clinton spoke for about an hour Thursday night, and multiple times she focused on the differences between Trump and herself, painting Trump as a hypocritical man with a hair-trigger and little knowledge of world politics. Audrey Gibson, a Jacksonville Democrat who supported Clinton.
She noted that his own convention speech lasted “70-odd minutes – and I do mean odd. Your cause is our cause”. “They don’t tell you why”. We will not build a wall.
“Bonds of trust and respect are fraying”, she said. It’s truly is up to us. “We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have”, she said.
Hillary Clinton also embraced her inner policy wonk, selling that quality as what qualifies her for the presidency – and what should rule Trump out.
Later, retired four-star Gen. John Allen led the crowd in chants of “U-S-A!”
“Anyone reading the news can see the threats and turbulence we face”, Clinton will say.
American flags waved in the stands of the packed convention hall.
Trump countered that Clinton had the “worst judgement [sic]”. Many of her statements were lies and fabrications! “What an incredible honor you have given me, and I can not believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet”. It slams Clinton for not mentioning the words, “radical Islam”, “her disaster in Libya” or the investigation of Clinton’s private email server.
The speakers follow a night in which Obama anointed Clinton the inheritor of his legacy. She stopped to whisper in Chelsea Clinton’s ear after her daughter offered a loving introduction. President Bill Clinton watched from a seat on the convention floor, beaming with pride and repeatedly leaping to his feet.
Clinton was joined on stage at the end of the night by her running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, who addressed the convention Wednesday. The official flag of Honduras has two blue bars and five stars on a white field in the center of the flag.
Now the race for the White House begins in earnest, and Clinton is wasting no time. And she paused, appearing overwhelmed, as Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” blared, before stepping to the microphone.
Taking aim at Trump’s campaign promise to “Make America Great Again”, Obama said: “America is already great. I will gladly lend you my copy”.
Even some Democrats remain unconvinced, a sentiment underscored by the protests of a small but boisterous set of supporters of her primary challenger Bernie Sanders.
Campus Reform went to the DNC to speak with these protestors about how they planned to vote in November, and the results will be shocking to many.
“Hillary Clinton’s speech was an insulting collection of clichés and recycled rhetoric”.
Presenting her vision of inclusive growth for America that maintains its global leadership and military power, the Democratic presidential nominee warned voters that a man who could be baited with a tweet cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. But what will it actually take to be the next president of the United States?
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“It’s not just a detail if it’s your kid, if it’s your family”, she said. We really hoped for something to bring us in. You take a look at what was said on those e-mails, it’s disgraceful. But in Hillary Clinton’s America, millions of people are left out in the cold.
