Hillary Clinton has told Democrats they have “just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling” by nominating her for USA president on a night awash with history. Even though they succeeded in pushing Clinton to the left and even though they won incredible policy victories in the Democratic platform, some wore tape over their mouths or carried signs that altered Hillary Clinton’s “I’m with her” mantra to “Silenced by her”.
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“I thought her delivery was excellent”, Trump told The Hollywood Reporter. Hillary Clinton was formally anointed Democratic presidential candidate here on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to run for the White House on behalf of a major US political party.
Hillary Clinton briefly addressed convention-goers via satellite from her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., following her husband’s remarks. I hope you will do it.
But the nomination was followed by chaos, with some Sanders delegates staging a walkout.
Paul Simon’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” was an obvious choice for a convention striving to be one – and much more apropos than his “America”, the adopted theme of the Bernie Sanders insurgency. Hillary Clinton can not beat Donald Trump. “She always wants to move the ball forward-that is just who she is”.
The Clinton campaign is anxious there is more to come from the hacked emails like those revealed by WikiLeaks from the Democratic National Committee. The scandal prompted the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who came under fire from protesters on Monday and was forced to relinquish any major role in the convention.
She leads a party still grappling with divisions.
Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. Members of the crowd heckled Warren during her speech, shouting “We trusted you!”
He went on to tout her record as a NY senator, when she worked with families of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks and served on the Armed Forces Committee and a Pentagon commission on new security challenges.
Former president Bill Clinton made a deeply personal pitch to voters to support his wife in her November 8 showdown with Republican Donald Trump. Alabama, the first to go, cast 50 votes for Clinton and nine for Sanders, with one abstention.
Vice President Joe Biden cast off those concerns in a conversation with reporters on Tuesday, according to Politico. We got to show a little class and let them be frustrated for a while.
Thousands of Sanders supporters chanting “Bernie or bust!” took to the streets of Philadelphia under the hot sun for another round of protests.
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”.
The appearance capped an evening that featured a number of entertainment celebrities, including Lena Dunham, Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Banks and Debra Messing.
The confirmation was greeted with cheers from ecstatic Clinton supporters, who drowned out jeers from Sanders’ supporters. She refused – and refused two more times after that – before accepting his proposal. “I liked her speech”. A spokesman for McAuliffe later said that Clinton never told him she would shift her position on the trade deal.
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“If you were sitting where I’m sitting and you heard what I have heard – every dinner conversation, every lunch conversation, on every long walk – this woman has never been satisfied with the status quo”. Clinton asked the crowd after describing his wife’s accomplishments.
