Democrats have not accomplished the feat since Franklin D. Roosevelt, before the Constitution was amended to limit presidents to two terms.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton got some good news from Pennsylvania today with a Suffolk University public opinion survey showing her up 9 points in the Keystone State over Republican Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton – and the parties they now lead – expressed such divergent worldviews at their conventions that they may as well be living in different solar systems.
In Clinton’s acceptance speech Thursday night, she stressed familiar Democratic themes of love, peace, happiness, acceptance and party unity.
(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill).
A combination photo shows U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L) and Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) in Los Angeles, California on May 5, 2016 and in Eugene, Oregon, U.S. on May 6, 2016 respectively.
Heisler backs Clinton but said he’s not as optimistic as others about Democrats’ ability to carry the state because of the number of Trump bumper stickers, yard signs, full-size cutouts, and banners he sees in central Pennsylvania. He says the effect of the Democratic National Convention is giving Trump a boost.
Boston-based Suffolk University’s poll from July 25 to 27 of 500 likely voters showed Clinton with a healthy lead as the Democratic National Convention was set to wrap up Thursday night in Philadelphia with her officially becoming the first female presidential candidate of a major party.
“His minders have tried to walk back his comments on Twitter and in subsequent interviews but this just raises more questions about his ties to Russian Federation”.
Such poll surges for a candidate who has just finished their party’s convention usually are not the best indicator on where the American voter will be.
Until that month, the latest for which campaign finance data is available, Clinton had outpaced Trump in contributions from Oklahomans every month since early 2015. Men and women alike fumbled for words, resorting to Trump’s offspring, hair and love of spray tans (?) for material. That group of voters has eluded Clinton and was perhaps a hard sell after a Democratic convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Hillary Clinton capped off a four-day convention celebration with a plea for national unity and tolerance. “But I’m here to tell you tonight – progress is possible”.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee also responded to Clinton’s selection of Kaine as her running mate by noting that the Virginia senator voted to approve Trade Promotion Authority for the president to get swift votes on deals such as TPP.
He says Trump’s vote is being driven by white voters.
“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. “Let’s get beyond that perceived facade and expose Hillary Clinton’s many accomplishments and who she is as a mother and who she is as a leader and the genuineness that her close friends have seen all along”. He described the Republican gathering as “dark and depressing”.
“Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart, bonds of trust and respect are fraying”, Clinton said to cheering supporters.
The convention provided hours of glowing tributes to Clinton, including deeply personal testimonials from her husband, daughter Chelsea Clinton and Obama. On Tuesday – the day after rousing speeches from first lady Michelle Obama and Vermont Sen. It was, she said, happy news “for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between”. “Your cause is our cause”.
“She said the only time she has voted in a presidential election is the first year she was eligible, in which she wrote in ‘Mickey Mouse'”.
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Speaker after speaker cast Trump as intolerant, inexperienced and unsafe, including the Pakistan-born immigrant father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, who held up a copy of the Constitution and insisted that Trump “has sacrificed nothing”.
