But the president’s work on Clinton’s behalf, and the intensity of his effort, will be at least as important.
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“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump said on Wednesday.
“You can stay with Bernie and vote for Hillary Clinton”, Lawrence told delegates. Which is why Obama “berned” them in his address on Wednesday night. “If she wins, she is coming back for you to take you along on the ride to America’s future”, Clinton recalled telling voters.
Party leaders pitched for a unified front against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and by the time President Barack Obama delivered the evening’s keynote address, the jeers had mostly subsided.
He headed a line-up of speakers who attacked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Obama rejected that portrait.
Summoning his most famous line from that 2008 campaign, Obama said: “America isn’t about ‘Yes he will.’ It’s about ‘Yes we can'”.
The results mirror a Pew Research Center report released previous year, which found Democrats with strong advantages with post-graduates.
“I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America”.
In the city where America’s founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, Mr Obama declared the November election a “fundamental choice” about what the country is and the very “meaning of our democracy”.
On Thursday, it is Clinton’s turn to make her own case.
“Until you’ve sat at that desk, you don’t know what it’s like to manage a global crisis, or send young people to war”.
The Democrats’ campaigner-in-chief, President Barack Obama, had breathed new life into a convention that had seemed sullen over unmet expectations and racked by doubts about an imperfect nominee.
Both have contributed to the biggest knock on Clinton in this campaign: the belief that she is untrustworthy and plays by her own rules.
“He is offering slogans and fear”, said Obama.
Clinton waged another hard-fought primary battle this year, beating off an unexpectedly strong challenge from the left by Bernie Sanders, a USA senator from Vermont.
Clinton will give her acceptance speech tonight in person, just miles from Independence Hall where the nation was conceived.
Casting Trump as a fake who misleads working people and draws on fear and cynicism, Obama said that “anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end”.
How a “frumpy, grumpy” septuagenarian senator has become the icon of America’s youth is one of the great mysteries (and delights) of this election.
“I’m a New Yorker and I know a con when I see one”, Bloomberg said of Trump. “The America I know is decent and generous”. Gabriel McArthur, a Sanders delegate from suburban Denver, said anything short of an “hours-long heart-to-heart” with the candidate will likely leave him cold Thursday night.
On Thursday, Democrats continued to claim it was Trump who is a “dangerous” choice. The contested Senate seats then were in states he’d lost twice.
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Speaking at the Bloomberg Politics breakfast on Tuesday, Mr. Sanders also said the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee doesn’t go far enough in fixing the situation and that more staff members need to leave following embarrassing disclosures of thousands of internal emails. He may also visit Democrat-friendly swaths of red states including Nebraska and Utah. “She was doing everything I was doing but just like Ginger Rodgers, it was backwards in heels”, Obama said. Perhaps more to the point, she said, a failure to try would be a path to defeat. “Not really a facts guy, either”, Obama said, before going in for the kill.
