She previewed her pitch in a satellite message to the convention on Tuesday, when she told little girls who might still be watching: “I may become the first woman president, but one of you is next”.
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“I married my best friend”.
The Democratic National Convention has also been visited by Haitians, who’ve railed against Bill and Hillary Clinton’s transgressions against their country.
And in a moving gesture, Hillary’s rival candidate Bernie Sanders helped make Clinton’s nomination official by saying: “I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States”. “Most importantly how she put off making money to serve the people, the public”, said Bobbie Richardson, a state legislator and delegate from North Carolina.
“She’s insatiably curious, she’s a natural leader, she’s a good organizer, and she is the best darn changemaker I have ever met in my entire life”, Bill Clinton said. This suggests the problem isn’t that people don’t know her so much as that she lacks all self-awareness. They may not know all the details of her advocacy work as a young woman, but they have seen her smash-mouth partisanship, her grating insincerity, her gross money-grubbing, her serial dishonesties, her cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof caution and her grind-out ambition that has lacked a light touch or any poetry.
Her priorities haven’t changed, he said. “There were mistakes that she’s made, but she’s cleared of those mistakes”, Richardson said. Elected to the Senate from NY in 2000, Hillary is technically only a couple of years past this benchmark for staleness – except this doesn’t do justice to how long she has been around, and especially how long it feels she’s been around.
Trump has also seized on Clinton-era policy issues, going after NAFTA, which Trump has vowed to renegotiate.
“It’s an all-hands-on-deck time”, she said in a weekend interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes”. “Her husband signed perhaps in the history of the world the single worst trade deal ever done”.
And at times, despite efforts by campaign staff to limit him to smaller events and fundraising, Bill Clinton’s free agent ways exploded into public.
Black lives didn’t matter to Bill and Hillary Clinton then, and they don’t matter to them now.
But she has had to clean up after him at times – most recently in the aftermath of Bill Clinton’s private, impromptu meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix airport in June.
A scandal over her use of a private email account as secretary of state has further dented her popularity and heightened perceptions that she can not be trusted.
“What’s really frustrating as a Hillary supporter is I know why I am a Hillary supporter and it’s well thought out, but I have people trying to tell me that I just don’t know what I’m talking about. But obviously no one wants to see any untoward conclusions drawn, and they’ve said, you know, they would not do it again”. Hillary Clinton has given it some thought. Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of state, said Clinton was the first person to call her when her grandmothers died.
“I don’t know, I don’t really know because it’d be such a precedent”, Clinton said of a potential title.
On “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook hopefully maintained that a lot of Americans simply “don’t understand” Hillary’s devotion to others, and the convention aims to give them this “fuller picture”.
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USA TODAY looked through the Newseum’s archive of front pages and found more examples of the former president taking Clinton’s moment. “She was the first to call and congratulate our oldest son, Jack, when he began his career as an officer in the Marine Corps”.
