The night will also serve as the nation’s introduction to Virginia Sen.
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Vice-President Joe Biden, who considered his own presidential run, delivered a spirited address.
If you believed Sanders’ rhetoric about Clinton, you couldn’t possibly vote for her.
He is also guided by his convictions about Trump.
Acknowledging that there were differences between the woman he had described and the one the Republicans had spoken of last week, he said “one is real and the other is made up”, adding that the Republicans had created a “cartoon alternative”.
As Trump did at the Republican convention, Clinton has had to deal with plenty of distractions at her party’s confab in Philadelphia. It didn’t necessarily work, as many Sanders supporters walked out of the convention. Earlier Wednesday, he encouraged Russian operatives to hack Clinton’s personal emails, a stunning claim from a figure who has long tested credulity and the limits of political discourse.
“Donald Trump has disrespected our military, and I think that will shine through tonight”, Sullivan said.
To the right, she is a hardened liar; corrupt in the style of a banana republic caudillo who will do and say anything to eke out even the smallest amount of power and influence. “That’s not hyperbole; those are just the facts”.
A high-level federal response following the directive’s guidelines will be triggered anytime there’s an attack at or above a level three – orange – indicating an attack likely to affect public health or safety, economic or national security or other USA interests.
“Our strength, our greatness does not depend on Donald Trump”.
“We hope it’s you and not Trump”, he said, “but there’s no honeymoon”. He mentioned Clinton only once in his speech, concentrating more on the political movement he helped launch.
He told about how President Obama had to ask her multiple times to be secretary of state. And Trump won his primary more decisively than did Clinton, and united his party first.
“Hillary didn’t get the nomination”. “I’m not going to hit that bar, so let me concede top speech-making already to my wife, but I couldn’t have been prouder of her”, Obamasaid. “That trait in him has proven to be devastating to his opponents in the past”. He wanted to get Americans to see her as a human being, and an admirable one at that, and to erase the negative caricature that Republicans and many of Bernie Sanders’ supporters have drawn over and over.
The president’s active role in the race to succeed him has little recent precedent.
To the strains of Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”, Obama shared a warm embrace with his would-be successor, capping an all-star night that included appearances by Vice President Joe Biden, Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine and independent Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of NY.
Rather, Obama’s advisors recognize that the convention is traditionally one of the few moments in a national campaign in which voter sentiments can shift dramatically. Obama will offer his unique perspective to testify as to Clinton’s readiness to hit the ground running, particularly on foreign policy.
The convention has sought to tamp down lingering bitterness among some die-hard Sanders supporters, and move past unruly displays of dissent that marked the first day on Monday. With four months to go until voters go to the polls, one question remains unanswered: What will Bill Clinton do?
“Unfortunately, anti-Israel activists have always been part of these sorts of protests”, said Aaron Keyak, a Jewish Democratic consultant attending the Democratic convention.
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Memoli reported from Philadelphia and Parsons from Washington.
