Clardy says a President Clinton might carry out and possibly expand some of Obama’s policies.
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As for Hillary Clinton, his one-time primary rival, Obama made clear he views her as uniquely qualified to be his successor.
Philadelphia-President Obama and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine did something very smart Wednesday night.
“Folks, you can not believe one word that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth”, Kaine said. I know why we are united: It is because there has always been a growing middle class.
Clinton appeared unannounced on the platform soon after to soak up the roar of cheering Democrats.
“That’s my man!” she wrote.
“They understand who Hillary (Clinton) is and they understand that Donald Trump is a threat to everything they care about”, the Virginia senator said in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America” today. “You’re saying, ‘I think this person has character, ‘ and that’s what I’m prepared to do for Hillary”. And given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever let their country down.
Indeed, the Democratic convention has been a visual ode those mantras: The first African-American president symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman.
A son of Scranton, Pa., Biden appealed directly to the working class white voters who have been drawn to Trump’s populism, warning them against falling for false promises and exploitation of Americans’ anxieties. “Because we lead not only by example of our power, but by the power of our example. We don’t look to be ruled”, Obama said.
Hours later, Trump told Fox News he was being “sarcastic” although shortly after his remarks on Wednesday, he tweeted that Russian Federation should share the emails with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Leveraging his blue-collar bona fides, he argued Clinton is intimately familiar with the economic disenfranchisement that helped power Trump’s rise.
Hours later, his campaign tried to cast the remark as “sarcastic”. But the candidate did not disavow it.
Trump’s comments fed Democrats’ contentions that the billionaire businessman is unqualified to be commander in chief.
Kaine said his son would “protect and defend the very North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies that Donald Trump now says he wants to abandon”. 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 “commonsense” gun policies weren’t in place when her son died.
On Thursday, Democrats continued to claim it was Trump who is a “dangerous” choice. That’s not the America I know.
On Wednesday Democratic heavy weights took to the stage of the DNC to show their support for Hillary Clinton.
In what was likely his last prime-time speech of his political life, Vice President Joe Biden delivered a roaring case for Clinton. It was a Biden special, rich with his regular-guy folksiness, misty-eyed storytelling and hard hits.
“What we heard was a deeply pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other, and turn away from the rest of the world”, Obama said. Biden explained before offering his own well-used tagline: “That’s a bunch of malarkey!”
The core of Clinton’s strategy is putting back together Obama’s winning White House coalition.
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Wednesday night’s Democratic lineup was aimed at emphasizing Clinton’s own national security credentials. She will invoke her 1996 book “It Takes a Village” and will continue to woo moderate Republicans. Allen was Deputy Commander of U. S. Central Command and a former commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation mission in Afghanistan.
