“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. “He’s going to be a valuable member of the team when she is president”. Numerous marchers chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, the DNC has got to go!” and carried signs reading “Never Hillary”, “Just Go to Jail Hillary” and “You Lost Me at Hillary”.
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Samantha Herring, a delegate from Florida, says she will now support Hillary Clinton, even though she is more of a Bernie Sanders fan.
Most responded otherwise. The internal dissent inside the convention hall quieted down Tuesday. By early evening, a large crowd had formed outside the subway station closest to the arena. In April he was confronted at a campaign event for his wife in Philadelphia by Black Lives Matter activists over his administration’s 1994 crime bill.
At least three people clambered over perimeter fences and were arrested.
Several of the protesters cited a recent release of stolen e-mails from top Democratic National Committee officials, which revealed bias toward Sanders during a primary race in which the party was supposed to remain neutral, as a reason for their discontent.
Gilda Reed, a Sanders delegate from Metairie, La., said she was holding out until the last minute and planned to vote for Sanders: “I’m not giving up”. She emerged with a total of 2,842 votes to Sanders’ 1,865.
Indeed, Clinton’s long political resume – secretary of state, senator, first lady – has sometimes seemed an odd fit for an electorate deeply frustrated with Washington and eager to rally around unconventional candidates like Trump and Sanders.
The star turn in Philadelphia on Tuesday will be the traditional warm spousal endorsement with the twist that it will be a former president making the case for his wife.
During his keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention tonight, former President Bill Clinton referenced Hillary Clinton’s work in Dothan in the 1970s. For Forester, Clinton rival Bernie Sanders was too much of an idealist. Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the longest-serving woman in Congress, will submit Clinton’s name to kick off the ritual.
Clinton came under relentless attack at the Republican convention in Cleveland, as speakers assailed her over the email controversy and her record as secretary of state and painted her as out of touch with ordinary Americans. They chanted “Bernie! Bernie!” and even reprised the Republicans’ cheer: “Lock her up!”
Richardson said she liked the wistful touch of romance that Bill Clinton added to his speech: “I think he was trying to show that he remembered what she looked like, and what she wore 40 years ago. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon”.
“My number one priority is to make sure Donald Trump is not the president”, he said.
President from 1993 to 2001, Bill Clinton, 69, left office with high approval ratings and is known as one of the most powerful political orators in the country. Bill Clinton supported that repeal, which allows a single company to operate as a commercial bank, an investment bank and an insurance firm. “Smart move by the Democrats to have Pres. @billclinton play a key role in their convention”, he wrote on Twitter. Elizabeth Warren. The staging sent a clear message: The Sanders people would have their say – and then the convention, and the campaign, would move on. “And I really hoped that she choosing me and rejecting my own advice to pursue her own career was a decision she’d never regret”. In fact, we can expect President Obama to do just that on Wednesday night.
Throughout his intimate account of their courtship, marriage and early years together, he interspersed anecdotes of her dedication to public service, such as her work with poor children in New Haven, Conn. that became so consuming that it required her to take an extra year to finish her law degree.
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But the pick disappointed some supporters of Sanders who were upset over his past support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. There could be another walkout by Sanders delegates before Kaine starts his speech. Mr. Clinton said it was impossible to square the GOP’s vision with what he saw.
