In 2015 Sanders announced he was no longer an Independent and meant to run as a Democrat in all future elections. And I don’t want someone to think that I got a job because I was a woman, I want someone to think that I’ve got the job because I’m the best person for the job. I’m happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between.
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As recently as a week ago, Trump’s website stated that she had obtained a degree before going on to become a philanthropist and skin care entrepreneur. “When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit”, she said.
She said she’s happy for boys and men, too, because when a barrier fall, it clears the way for all.
“I’m voting for a fighter”, she continued, “who never, ever gives up, and who believes we can always do better when we come together and work together”.
Clinton said “it’s true, I sweat the details of policy”. She doesn’t have the magnetism of the big names who have preceded her this week.
Clinton said the US needs a leader who’ll work with allies to keep America safe.
Clinton’s acceptance speech ended a program featuring speeches by a procession of Democratic lawmakers, candidates and activists, not to mention her own daughter, spiced with musical performances by Carole King and Katy Perry. “No wonder people are anxious and looking for reassurance”.
Neither deal happened while she was in government.
On Thursday, it is Clinton’s turn to make her own case.
Clinton said: “We will prevail”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump National Doral on July 27 in Florida.
“No one has worse judgement than Hillary Clinton”, Trump tweeted afterward.
Although a long list of former senior military leaders support Clinton, martial themes were muted this week or turned toward an indictment of Trump’s temperament and his fitness to make national security decisions.
The people calling her the embodiment of evil are the same ones who spent the past seven years claiming Obama is a secret Muslim sent here to destroy America.
“Some people are anxious”, she said.
Khizr Khan, whose son was killed serving in Iraq in 2004, delivered a powerful indictment of Donald Trump.
Clinton and her allies are attempting a hard balancing act: Any desire to promote her national security expertise as a former wartime senator and secretary of state in the fight against terrorism must be weighed against the need to mollify the more dovish followers of Sen.
“We’re still facing deep-seated problems that developed long before the recession and have stayed with us through the recovery”, Clinton said, adding that “an terrible lot of people feel there is less and less respect for the work they do”.
She settled in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1974, becoming one of the first female members of the faculty at University of Arkansas Law School.
First lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden each cast Clinton as champion for the disadvantaged and a fighter who has withstood decades of Republican attacks.
But the most rousing Clinton sales pitch came from President Obama himself.
Some Democrats still aren’t convinced, a sentiment underscored by the protests of a small but boisterous set of supporters of her primary challenger Bernie Sanders. They shifted the party’s platform to the left.
Clinton said Trump has brought the Republican Party a long way – from “Morning in America” to “Midnight in America”. “He wants us to fear the future and fear each other”, said Clinton. No, the condemnation of an entire religion is not in line with American values.
Accepting the party’s nomination for vice-president before launching into his attack, Mr Kaine argued that the NY billionaire had made many promises to American voters, but had not detailed plans on how he would achieve them.
And her take? “We heard Donald Trump’s answer last week at his convention”.
Clinton also assailed Trump’s record as a businessman.
She pointed to Atlantic City, N.J. – about 60 miles from Philadelphia, site of the Democratic convention.
“So let’s put ourselves in the shoes of young black and Latino men and women who face the effects of systemic racism, and are made to feel like their lives are disposable”.
Wednesday’s display was the picture of diversity that Democrats have sought to frame the whole week: The first African-American president symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman. No, demonizing immigrants will not make America great again. They both garner high “unpopularity” ratings. But Democrats expect to see that swing back in the coming days, after finishing a successful convention that got off to a bumpy start due to embittered supporters of Sen.
More than 55 percent of voters will be women in the upcoming November elections, and Clinton is trying to reach those voters in her bid to get to the White House.
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“They offered no solutions for the problems facing America – in fact, they pretended those problems didn’t even exist.” the statement said.
