In a flurry of e-mails sent during Clinton’s speech, the Trump campaign noted that Clinton once backed free trade deals she now criticizes.
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Now, one of the most divisive and distrusted figures in American political life must convince voters that she rather than Republican rival Donald Trump can bring a deeply divided nation together.
Taking aim at Trump’s campaign promise to “Make America Great Again”, Obama said: “America is already great”. He ultimately scrapped the effort. “Donald Trump can’t even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign”.
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.
The Republican presidential nominee referred to former NY mayor Michael Bloomberg, also a billionaire, as “Little Michael Bloomberg”, who “never had the guts to run for president” and whose final term as mayor was “a disaster”.
Republicans hope Trump can run strong in upstate and the New York City suburbs – the battleground for Senate seats.
Trump attacked Gen. John Allen, saying he “failed badly in his fight against ISIS”.
The Democratic nomination now officially hers, Clinton has just over three months to persuade Americans that Trump is unfit for the Oval Office and overcome the visceral connection he has with some voters in a way the Democratic nominee does not.
A separate Reuters/Ipsos survey that provided respondents with the option to choose from Clinton, Trump, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, has Clinton and Trump tied at 37 percentage points.
Citing recent terrorist attacks in the USA and overseas by “determined enemies that must be defeated”, Clinton again hit Trump by saying: “No wonder people are anxious and looking for reassurance – looking for steady leadership”.
“She has laid out very clearly a set of strategies from the education strategies I talked about earlier to important strategies to make sure that those who are working are treated fairly in their benefits and their wages and also to investments to grow the economy, whether those be investments in innovation and research or investments in infrastructure to build the society that we want”, he said. If it was up to Donald Trump he never would have been in America. “A bold agenda to improve the lives of people across our country to keep you safe, to get you good jobs, and to give your kids the opportunities they deserve”, Clinton said. (The one between Clinton and Trump is now close.) “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons”, she said, homing in on the extraordinary danger Trump represents.
“He spoke for 70-odd minutes, and I do mean odd”, said Clinton, referring to the GOP nominee’s acceptance speech last week in Cleveland.
Democrats argued all week from the convention stage that the NY billionaire was temperamentally unfit for the job.
“Donald Trump says, and this is a quote, ‘I know more about ISIS than the generals do”.
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To that, Kaine said Friday: “That’s not being sarcastic, that’s ignorant”. And the real problem is what was said on those e-mails from the Democratic National Committee. He said the group had no plans to walk out of the arena in protest. Tim Kaine, who addressed the convention Wednesday. Earlier, in a FOX News interview, he was in damage control, after he suggested yesterday that Russian Federation find tens of thousands of e-mails missing from Clinton’s private server.
