Perez said she is prepared to support Clinton in order to keep Republican nominee Donald Trump out of the White House, but she isn’t sure how many of her fellow Sanders supports feel the same way.
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The stakes are high: A loss to Trump could not only end Clinton’s political career, it could be a devastating coda to her and her husband’s political legacy and leave the Democratic Party weaker than it has been in a generation.
“We’re thinking about doing something that’s different”, he said a week later at a Dallas rally.
Clinton made history by becoming the first woman nominee on a major party ticket, but she also has historically low favorability ratings among the public.
In the biggest speech of her more than 25-year-old career in the public eye, Clinton, 68, cast herself as a steady leader at a “moment of reckoning” for the country, and contrasted her character with what she described as Trump’s risky and volatile temperament. “He’s taken the Republican Party a long way, from “Morning in America” to ‘Midnight in America”‘.
“He’s betting that the perils of today’s world will blind us to its unlimited promise”.
Clinton also said Trump lacks the temperament for the presidency, adding that “a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.
A Pennsylvania poll showed the Democratic candidate with a nine-point lead over Donald Trump on Thursday. And on Thursday, she acknowledged it.
“I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place”, she said. “But I’m here to tell you tonight – progress is possible”. The arena roof featured nets filled with red, white and blue balloons, ready to be dropped on the nominee and her family after the speech. She had to reach out to supporters of Sen.
However, amid questions from followers on social media and evidence the line had been used repeatedly by former U.S. president, Trump Jr. appeared to back away from his accusation and instead claimed he was only joking. Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart.
President Barack Obama came out of nowhere to block Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions during the 2008 Democratic primary. “When any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone”, said Clinton.
“It’s a dog-and-pony show”, Seamus Berkeley, a Sanders delegate from New Mexico, said of the convention.
The evening sounded at times more like a traditional Republican convention than a Democratic one. “US!” as members of the crowd waved American flags. Speakers, some of whom included military and police officers, made frequent mentions of religion and patriotism.
“I think here at the convention, it’s been exacerbated by the way they are treating people”, she said.
“And no matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits”, he declared.
Another challenge facing Hillary Clinton’s campaign is persuading primary voters who were passionate supporters of runner-up Sanders, the self-described socialist Democrat and U.S. Senator from Vermont. Her supporters tried to drown them out with chants of, “Hillary, Hillary”.
“Both groups have strong feelings about what’s going on”, she said.
“He’s forgetting every last one of us”, she said.
OK, one of those was the lower-case verb “trump”, as in “love trumps hate”.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, the strongest passages in Clinton’s speech were often acid denunciations of her Republican opponent. Those were actually Donald Trump’s words in Cleveland. That fell short of the 32.2 million people who watched Trump speak to the Republicans a week before.
