On Tuesday night, he was a scripted, neutered pol who spoke in startlingly boring banalities-even haters admit he’s usually colorful-and, aside from the usual self-aggrandizing promises (“We’re only going to have great trade deals, okay?”), sounded exactly like one of the drab GOP candidates he’d routed over the past few months.
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Bernie Sanders has vowed for months to take the Democratic primary fight all the way to the convention, regardless of the results from the final states. “And that inspires Hillary, not just to do what she’s doing, but to spend a lifetime helping women and girls”, he said. “My hope is that over the next couple of weeks we’re able to pull things together”.
The Democratic Party primaries have exposed Clinton’s failure to inspire or gain the trust of important segments of the voters, especially the young.
“We’ve got to get busy”, he said. It seems that men who really believe in gender equality would at least acknowledge Clinton’s accomplishment. During the event, Clinton said that emphasizing and promoting abortion is a key issue in President Barack Obama’s foreign policy.
In the interview, the presumptive Democratic nominee also said she plans to reach out to vanquished Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders’ supporters.
“We are going to fight on to win the primary in Washington D.C.”, he said.
On Saturday at a rally in Los Angeles, Sanders said that he planned to take what he called his “enormous momentum” all the way to the convention, which opens in Philadelphia on July 25. Biden was arranging calls with both Sanders and Clinton to discuss the race before making a public endorsement of his own.
She also shared, horribly, the pain of disclosures of his infidelity and the campaign of destruction led by Republicans who ultimately impeached him, but failed to convict him.
Like Trump’s followers, Sanders’s young supporters yearn for something big to happen (Sanders talks of a revolution), and to them Clinton’s program feels gray and incremental-the same old, same old.
And she must show real empathy towards working people and struggling youth as they search for their rightful place in America’s future, and revise her campaign platform accordingly.
The media crowning of Hillary Clinton as presumptive Democratic nominee on Monday may not have been enough to convince her opponents that the early pronouncement (and superdelegates) were “real”, but the results of Tuesday’s half-dozen primaries, which padded Clinton’s pledged delegate count by more than 300 delegates, are nearly certainly not contestable.
While the AP did not receive “any specific security threats”, reporters received threatening messages from people identifying as pro-Sanders, AP’s vice president for global security, Danny Spriggs, wrote in an email to employees on Wednesday.
“DFA believes, as we have since 2007, that the victor of the majority of pledged delegates should be the Democratic nominee”, wrote DFA Chair Jim Dean.
“I would think that would have some influence on those who supported Sen”. “We’ve seen it many, many places and times in the world, and that’s why I think it’s so unsafe”. “Because we want an America where everyone is treated with respect and where their work is valued”, Clinton said Tuesday before an enthusiastic crowd.
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However, several of his top supporters appear to be relenting, accepting that Clinton is the presumptive nominee, including two top members of Congress.
