Clinton reserved some of her most pointed language to take digs directly at Trump, wasting precious little time before taking on the Republican nominee.
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Millions of Americans have tuned in to watch this month’s party conventions, with the Democratic get-together is ahead in terms of ratings over last week’s Republican event.
She directly linked her candidacy to the presidency of Obama, whom she said does not get almost enough credit for “saving us from the worst recession since the Great Depression”. “No one has worse judgement than Hillary Clinton-corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes”. In a personal, well-poised speech, Chelsea said she was at the DNC as a “proud American, a proud Democrat, a proud mother and tonight in particular, a very, very proud daughter”.
In her speech, Clinton points out, “Freedom and equality, justice and opportunity”. Imagine, if you dare, imagine, imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Kaine’s wife Anne Holton during a rally a day after accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, at Temple University on July 29, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “And she has a connection to hard-working American families forged in her lifetime of leadership and service to others”. Bernie Sanders. The former Secretary of State laid out some of the progressive policies championed by the primary runner-up and extended an olive branch to the populist wing of the party. Despite critique from conservatives that she was merely running on her status as the first female nominee, Clinton reveled in the “glass ceiling” which she had broken through. “‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'”.
Some were hoping for more of an effort to bring Sanders supporters into the party that is backing Clinton. She got a big cheer for calling out how “odd” Trump’s 78-minute July 12 RNC speech was.
“Donald Trump can’t even handle the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign”, Clinton alleged in her speech.
Clinton called on Americans to consider Donald Trump’s “temperament”.
She later took a shot at one of Trump’s comments from the Republican convention in Cleveland last week by telling the audience they shouldn’t “believe anyone who says, ‘I alone can fix it'”.
“I’ll tell you something else, [the Founders] also expected a kind of raucous debate in America”, Clinton said in apparent response to the protesters.
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When he saw the drawings for the stage he would speak on, Mr. Trump sent them back. She struck an inclusive tone, trying to appeal directly to supporters of US Senator Bernie Sanders and even Republicans with references to President Reagan and US Senator John McCain.
