In a symbolic show of party unity, Clinton’s former rival, US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, told the chairwoman from the convention floor that Clinton, 68, should be selected as the party’s nominee at the dramatic climax of a state-by-state roll call at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
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“The president will talk about who we are as a country and that we are better united than divided, and that we’re better together than apart”, said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.
Delegates cheer former U.S. President Bill Clinton as he speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 26, 2016. The voice vote passed, but not without some “nays” from delegates.
Clinton’s campaign hopes Sanders’ supporters refrain from protesting her running mate Kaine when he takes the stage Wednesday night. Several wept and embraced.
Hillary Clinton cracked the glass ceiling on Tuesday as she became the first woman to be nominated by a major party for president of the United States.
“Yes, we do break barriers, I broke a barrier when I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right”, Mikulski said. “This is really your victory. You children and grandchildren will bless you forever if you do”, the former US President said.
Clinton has been briefed about reports that intelligence officials believe Russian Federation was behind the leak of DNC emails and is “alarmed by the prospect and proposition that Russian Federation is interfering in an American election”, Sullivan said.
“I think if you listen to any press conference he’s given, or listen to any of those debates, basic knowledge – about the world or what a nuclear triad is or where various countries are or, you know, the difference between Sunni and Shia in the Muslim world – those are things that he doesn’t know and hasn’t seemed to spend a lot of time trying to find out about”.
Last week, we found out that Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, is apparently a fan of Michelle Obama’s.
“If Hillary Clinton comes out and she demonstrates that she is going to be someone we can trust to stick to that, I think we can begin to have a conversation”, Clipston said.
It was 12 years ago to the day Wednesday that Obama first burst onto the national stage with a fiery speech at John Kerry’s Democratic convention in Boston. Frustration boiled over on the opening day Monday as his delegates booed speakers who mentioned Clinton. “I guess.” She said she would not back Trump and called Clinton, “the lesser of two evils”. “A real change maker represents a real threat”, he said.
“They’ve been bought. Whether it’s with money or mental telepathy, whatever it is…The world is watching us and what they’re taking from this is that anybody with power or money could be our president”, said Miguel Angel Zuniga, a Sanders delegate from Los Angeles. “Good for you, because earlier today, you nominated the Real One”.
Albright, who many remember best for pressuring the U.N.to withdraw peacekeeping forces in Rwanda at the beginning of the genocide in 1994 and once said that the deaths of half a million Iraqi children were “worth it”, also took jabs at Donald Trump.
Gay basketball player Jason Collins told of the support she offered when he went public with his homosexuality; a grandmother described how her daughter’s battle with drug addiction inspired Clinton to address the drug crisis.
Clinton is scheduled to deliver her acceptance speech tomorrow. But despite Sanders calling on his flock to get behind Hillary, his self-styled “political revolution” appears to have transformed into a revolt.
Tace Geesaman, a Nevada delegate and single mom, walked out after Sanders’s plea feeling betrayed. She always wants to move the ball forward. America would really take off as well, if voters would just fall in love with that girl, too.
But Bill Clinton laid out the options before voters, saying there were “clear, achievable, affordable” Democratic goals at stake in November.
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“I learned that Hillary got her introduction to social justice from her Methodist youth minister Don Jones”.
