Clinton on Tuesday became the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party, teeing up a November showdown with Donald Trump. He planned to say that she is cool in crisis and “never, ever quits”, according to excerpts released earlier in the day. “The America I know is full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity”.
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“What an incredible honour you have given me”, Ms Clinton told a thrilled gathering in the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
While he did not criticize Hillary Clinton, Biden, 73, agreed with Scarborough’s suggestion that Democrats have stopped talking to white, working-class voters.
His vice president, Joe Biden, also addresses the convention on Wednesday, in a reminder to some Democrats that the candidate they wanted this year was the one they couldn’t have.
In what the White House expects will be the largest remaining television audience of his presidency, Obama hopes to use Clinton’s record as the central argument for her candidacy – and suggest her rival’s record represents just the opposite. Where Trump speaks in staccato jabs, Obama’s oratory is sweeping. But he added that it was the right call for him and his family.
Biden’s comments come as Sanders supporters have booed the mention of Hillary Clinton’s name during speeches and DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned over emails indicating the national party favored Clinton over Sanders.
“Hunger Games” actress Elizabeth Banks and other speakers praised Clinton for focusing her early law career on children’s causes; left unsaid was that she also joined the Rose law firm in Arkansas, which worked for Tyson Foods, Wal-Mart and several brokerage houses and had a part in the Whitewater real-estate scandal that dogged the Clintons for years. “Trump is reckless, he is risky he is wrong and he is scary”. Obama said that unlike Trump, Hillary does have a real plan and, if elected, will continue to lead the country in a way that Americans deserve.
In pre-convention interviews, Obama has been frank about his relationship with Clinton, admitting they aren’t “bosom buddies”.
The Islamic State would appear to be one more topic of disagreement.
And finally, the vice-president was asked, was he surprised that Donald Trump is doing as well as he is in the polls?
Democrats have buttressed Clinton with a star gathering of current and past party notables. “The America I know is decent and generous”, Obama will say.
“I think anybody who goes into campaigns not running scared can end up losing”, Obama said. “And those are things that he doesn’t know and hasn’t seemed to spend a lot of time trying to find out about”. “I think the president will talk about what the country has accomplished together since then, what the grit, ingenuity and determination of the American people helped to achieve over the past eight years”. In an interview aired hours before his remarks, he said Trump lacks “basic knowledge about the world” and has shown no interest in learning more about it.
Vice President Joe Biden delivers the keynote address during commencement exercises for the class of 2012 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, May 26, 2012. “Bernie and his supporters did more to change the party than the party did to change him”.
Inside, it was all about the Clintons.
But mostly, White House aides said they expect Obama to focus on what makes Clinton best qualified.
This time, Clinton shattered the glass ceiling she couldn’t crack in 2008.
She was lauded throughout the evening by passionate supporters whose lives she has influenced. Mr Obama was speaking ahead of his speech to the Democrats convention that he was due to make last night.
“I think there has been in both parties not enough… respect shown…to ordinary people busting their necks”, he said. “I ask you to carry her the same way you carried me”.
Delegates at the convention formally nominated Kaine as the party’s vice presidential candidate by voice vote on Wednesday.
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“She’s not always flashy”.
