“His speech and his whole convention seemed to be more about insulting me than helping the American people”, she said of Trump, gliding over the fact that the Democratic convention was almost as anti-Trump as his was anti-Clinton. In 2012, the convention spanned only three days.
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Those attending Clinton’s speech within the Walls Fargo Center carried tall, narrow signs inscribed with “Hillary” and several waived large American flags to express support for the candidate.
“I’ll vote for Hillary”, Kennedy told FOX411. “But here’s the sad truth: There is no other Donald Trump”.
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both hit the campaign trail Friday, on the first official day of the general election.
Nearly on the hour, the lights in the convention hall have dimmed to present “Trump in His Own Words”, a series of short video clips that show Trump offering contentious views on, for example, women and pregnancy in the workplace, advertisements clearly aimed at Sanders backers at the gathering.
Trump will be busy Friday as he holds a town hall in Colorado Springs at 4 p.m. ET. and a rally in nearby Denver at 9 p.m.
Party leaders expect many of them to come around over the next weeks, given the choice before them – “are they going to vote for Trump?” asked a delegate from California.
In her speech, Clinton acknowledged the historic nature of her nomination, noting, “We’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more flawless union”.
And she portrayed Trump as a thin-skinned, easily riled man least prepared for the Oval Office: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.
Clinton proclaimed that “progress is possible” as she became the first woman to accept her party’s nomination for president. The FBI said it was working to determine the “accuracy, nature and scope” of the cyberattacks. “But we are not afraid”, she said. The House Democratic campaign committee reported Friday that its information had been accessed.
Despite critique from conservatives that she was merely running on her status as the first female nominee, Clinton reveled in the “glass ceiling” which she had broken through.
The Republican nominee campaigned in Iowa, where he again attacked “Crooked Hillary” as an unfit candidate who offers only a third term of the Obama administration.
The junior Trump took to Twitter to make the claim about the similarities. “Many of her statements were lies and fabrications”. Trump has proposed banning Muslims from entering the country.
On this day, they included the fire marshal in charge of safety at the event, whom Trump accused of needlessly keeping people out of the 1,600-person University of Colorado auditorium.
Lacking Obama’s sweeping rhetoric or the “I-feel-your-pain” sensitivity of her husband, Clinton leaned into her wonky image, saying, “I sweat the details of policy”. Mr Trump is expected to visit the state on Monday. That group of voters has eluded Clinton and may be a hard sell after a Democratic convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity. Democrats hammered home those themes this week with an array of politicians, celebrities, gun-violence victims, law enforcement officers and activists of all races and sexual orientation.
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The more casual format of the upcoming barnstorm suits Kaine just fine, said the VP candidate, who explained he felt “weird” being on the big convention stage because, “I don’t like wearing a tie that much”.
