Trump, who has never held public office, offered his critics fresh lines of attack on Wednesday, urging Russian Federation to find and release tens of thousands of emails that Clinton did not hand over to USA officials as part of a probe into her use of a private email system while she was secretary of state.
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“Burning the Israeli flag is a reckless act that undermines peace and our values”.
All in all, Wednesday was a fabulous day for Democrats, and it may well be an important pivot point for their convention. Someone stood nearby waving a Palestinian flag.
From Rolling Stone: An energetic Tim Kaine mocked Donald Trump, utilized his fluent Spanish and made the case for Hillary Clinton in the vice presidential nominee’s Democratic National Convention speech Wednesday night.
Hillary Clinton needed support this week, everyone knew that.
The poll, unsurprising in heavily Democratic California, comes one day after the Democratic Party formally nominated Clinton at the party’s national convention in Philadelphia.
He warned repeatedly early on Thursday that the former The Apprentice TV host was unprepared for the challenges that would await him in the Oval Office.
The appearance of him encouraging Russian Federation to meddle in the presidential campaign enraged Democrats and Republicans, even as he dismissed suggestions from Obama and other Democrats that Moscow already was intervening on his behalf.
Turning talk to Donald Trump, Obama said: “The Donald is not really a “plans” guy”. “He calls himself a business guy, which is true, but I have to say, I know plenty of businessmen and women who’ve achieved success without leaving a trail of lawsuits, and unpaid workers, and people feeling like they got cheated”.
The address bookends Mr Obama’s career-launching address to the Democratic convention in 2004, his contentious 2008 primary battle with Mrs Clinton and his eight years in office.
At least one delegate for Clinton’s rival, Bernie Sanders, had proposed protesting the president’s speech.
Love said his favorite line of the speech was a call to vote following the eruption of boos from the crowd after Obama mentioned Trump.
Senior Democrats and former national security figures lined up earlier on Wednesday to describe Trump as unable to steer America through the risky waters of today’s world.
While the bar is undeniably high for Clinton tonight given the string of speeches that have already been given this week, Campbell doesn’t think that she will be held to the same standards.
In a remarkable series of broadsides leveled at Clinton’s opponent, Obama rebuked Trump and the dire picture painted of the country by the GOP presidential nominee. In both his campaigns, Obama carried more than 90 percent of black voters, the overwhelming majority of Hispanics, and more than half of young people and women.
And CNN will have 24-hour coverage of the convention from Philadelphia. Delegates rose in an emotional standing ovation for the mother of one of the victims in last month’s Orlando nightclub shooting, who asked why “common-sense” gun policies weren’t in place when her son died.
“For all the places where I’ve fallen short”, he said.
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Obama said that acknowledging racial tension isn’t making it worse, instead “it’s creating the possibility for people of good will to join and make things better”. “But I was filled with faith – faith in America, the generous, bighearted, hopeful country that made my story – that made all of our stories – possible”. “His speech can help her help people get out the vote”.
