“We’re nearly half the people in the room”, a supporter said.
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As Clinton closed, she referenced Hillary Clinton’s own mother, Dorothy Rodham, saying, “Grandma would be so, so proud of you tonight”.
“Whenever my mum was away for work, she left notes for me to open every day she was gone”.
Neither Mrs Clinton nor USA president Barack Obama uses the phrase “radical Islam” because they say it is misleading, pointing out that the ideology motivating terrorists does not reflect true Islam.
Poised to become the first person in American history to have both parents serve as President of the United States, Chelsea Clinton delivered her much-anticipated introductory speech of her mother Hillary on the final night of the Democratic National Convention Thursday.
Gun violence, criminal justice reform, women’s rights, and climate change were issues she said her mother would focus on as president.
She also recalled her mother, then in the White House as first lady trying and failing to pass universal health care in 1994.
And in a year when Americans seem to yearn for an outsider, Clinton talked instead of her experience as a member of the U.S. Senate from NY and as secretary of state under President Barack Obama, saying, “Sometimes the people at this podium are new to the national stage”.
“Sen. Barkley and I will win this election and make these Republicans like it – don’t you forget that!”
The November election is not a “typical election”, but a “big” and “more fundamental choice” for the American people, Obama told some 5,000 delegates of the DNC at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.
In a flurry of e-mails sent during Clinton’s speech, the Trump campaign noted that Clinton once backed free trade deals she now criticizes. Bill Clinton on Tuesday night gave a very personal account of her life as a daughter, student, wife and mother. “They get to ask her questions everyday, and she answers questions from journalists. I will gladly lend you my copy”. Yet some of Clinton’s most lauded speeches on the trail have been when she lands blows against the real estate mogul, and it’s a sure-fire approach to firing up the crowd and projecting party unity.
“At the end of the day, (Sanders’) coalition looked too much like a modern day Woodstock, and not enough like the Obama coalition it takes to win the primaries and the general”, said Boyd Brown, a Democratic National Committeeman from SC who supported former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
“It had to be her”, she said.
“American is once again at a moment of reckoning”, she warned, casing Trump’s policy goals as ushering in a dark view of the country. However, she’s struggled to make the emotional connection Trump appears to be forming with these voters by pledging to put “America first”.
She offered herself as a more pragmatic alternative to a nation that seems more divided than at any time since the height of the Vietnam War in 1968.
Clinton hasn’t acknowledged any of the jeers or yelling.
Hillary Clinton finally has it signed and sealed.
“He spoke for 70-odd minutes, and I do mean odd”, said Clinton, referring to the GOP nominee’s acceptance speech last week in Cleveland.
Four years later, Clinton was the junior senator from NY and already being mentioned as a possible future presidential candidate.
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The speeches and programming have represented communities of a wide range of religions, races and backgrounds, while at the same time, highlighting some of Trump’s most inflammatory statements and proposals, including his signature idea of building a wall on the U.S. -Mexico border and banning Muslims from entering the country. To do that, Clinton must draw a sharp contrast with Trump’s rhetoric and policies. “We say, ‘we’ll fix it together'”. Lalonde said. “Men didn’t have to go through what women had to”.
