“We don’t resent success in America but we do resent people who take advantage of others in order to line their own pockets”, said Clinton, addressing local officials and employees on the factory floor.
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Clinton and Kaine’s visit to North Philadelphia, where she addressed a capacity crowd of about 4,000, was the ticket’s first formal campaign stop.
Trump is also focusing on OH and Pennsylvania, as states where he might make headway with blue-collar white men.
“Nobody who looked like me was thought to be possible to run for president” when the country was founded 240 years ago, Clinton told a few thousand supporters at Temple University, a day after she became the first woman to accept the presidential nomination of a major political party in the United States. From state senators and congressmen who delivered introductory remarks, no one could resist taking their shots at the brash Republican.
Philadelphia resident Richard Maimon was among the supporters. “She’s about the future rather than a past that, frankly, never existed”. She gave a preview of what her stump speech will be on that tour today. “The Trump/Toomey team is about arrogance”, she said. They stood in front of signs that promoted one of her general election themes: “Stronger Together”. Clinton said she had spent summers as a child near Scranton, where her father was born, and touted her brother’s and father’s enrollment at Penn State University. “US!” occasionally broke out among the audience, particularly when the former senator referenced Philadelphia’s legacy as the birthplace of American democracy and rallied supporters to help her “continue the work that started down the road from here” in 1776.
However, he said, both Republican and Democratic nominees for the USA 2016 presidential election gain more support after their conventions. “I’m not satisfied with the status quo”, Clinton said. “I’m starting to agree with you”. “I’m telling you that we’ve made progress, but we’ve got work to do”. But he insisted, “We don’t have a single issue in this country that we can’t tackle”, and said job creation would be the top priority if Clinton wins the White House.
She also said they would “make the biggest investment in new good-paying jobs since World War II”.
“Whatever party you belong to, or if you belong to no party at all, if you share these beliefs, this is your campaign”, Clinton said.
Clinton spoke second, and after praising Philadelphia’s handling of the convention commented on how she believes this is the most important election of her lifetime.
On stage Friday, Kaine also worked to connect with average voters, leading off by saying he had come from a humble household.
“And I am thrilled that so many Americans from everywhere got a chance to see Philadelphia … people kept coming back from going for walks, going to museums, going to other sites, telling me how much they were impressed”. “My mom and my brothers and me pitched in”.
He, too, went on the attack against Trump, contrasting the “upbeat” nature of the Democratic convention with what he called a dark Republican counterpart.
In a first for a Democratic convention, a number of Republican economic and foreign policy leaders hammered home the point. “It wasn’t a tour of this country, it was a journey through Donald Trump’s mind”, Kaine said. And that is a very frightening place.
Members of the public interested in attending are being asked to RSVP here. Bob Casey, senate hopeful Katie McGinty, Montgomery County Commissioner Josh Shapiro and former Gov. Ed Rendell. Before leaving town, Clinton raved about the city as she pushes forward on the campaign trail. “I think there are two glasses that need to be broken”.
In her address, McGinty touched on numerous same topics as did the Clinton campaign, including funding for education, wage growth and equal pay for women. Tim Kaine, were joined by their families onstage.
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“We’re going to stare the (National Rifle Association) down and we’re going to tell the terrorists you can not buy weapons of war in this country”, McGinty said.
