Hillary Clinton made an appearance following Alicia Keyes performance during the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, July 26.
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Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential nominee of any major party on Tuesday, a historic milestone capping a career of public service that has ranged from providing legal protection for children in Arkansas to serving as a US senator from NY to secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton has claimed the Democratic White House nod in a historic moment for America – the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major USA political party. In addition to the TV audience, the Sanders delegates in the convention hall are the target of this Hillary-as-hero tale. Sanders sat in the arena soaking in the cheers and waving to the crowd.
She will take on Donald Trump, who won the Republican nomination a week ago.
The symbolic roll call was packed with extra emotion over Clinton’s historic achievement. Women got the right to vote in 1920 after ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.
He also pivoted to contrast her with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling Hillary “real” and the brash developer “a cartoon”. Even more interesting, Richards became the first person to say the word “abortion” at the Democratic National Convention this year.
Engineer Chris Scully, of Troy, New York, said he opposes Clinton because of her war record as USA secretary of state.
He recalled her work, in the wake of failing to pass a national health care program, her push to get the Children’s Health Insurance Program passed into law.
Democrat Harry Truman went on to win re-election by promising that his party would continue to be “the haven of ordinary people of this land and not of the favoured classes or the powerful few”. “You could drop her into any trouble spot, pick one. and somehow, some way, she will have made it better”.
The stories were being told by a long list of politicians, celebrities and advocates.
Hoopla and celebration gave way to somber moments as the convention showcased “mothers of the movement” – women whose children died in gun violence.
Beginning with the story of how they first met in 1971, Clinton painted a painstakingly personal portrait of the Democratic nominee.
Making his case for Hillary Clinton, the former president stressed that Americans should vote for her because she has a knack for making things better and will “never quit when the going gets tough”.
Sanders has endorsed Clinton, but some of his supporters protested in Philadelphia against the party leadership’s apparent backing of her during the Democratic primary fight.
Unmoved by Sanders’ plea for unity, thousands of people chanting “Bernie or bust!” took to the streets under the hot sun.
Trump cheered the disruptions from the campaign trail. “I can tell you this: if you were sitting where I’m sitting and you heard what I have heard at every dinner conversation, every lunch conversation, on every long walk, you would say this woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anything”.
Clinton finally becomes the nominee of her party after a pair of grueling primary contests stretching over two election cycles.
Barack Obama and USA vice president Joe Biden will speak on Wednesday, along with Virginia senator Tim Kaine, Mrs Clinton’s new running mate.
But if anyone could pull it off, it was Bill Clinton.
In seeking to boost his wife’s campaign, the former president has struggled to strike a balance between defending his record and embracing the insurgent wing of today’s Democratic Party.
He further urged voters to support Hillary Clinton, saying she will “make us stronger together”.
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It was this idea, #TheRealOne, that caught fire online, not because the Clinton campaign had the hashtag locked and loaded, but because for Clinton’s supporters, it’s the flawless encapsulation of the point they’ve been trying to make all year about their candidate.
