U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugs U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton on the third day of the 2016 U.S. Democratic National Convention, at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States, on July 27, 2016.
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“The lesson she passed onto me years later stuck with me: no one gets through life alone, we have to look out for each other and lift each other up”, she said.
“He’s taken the Republican Party a long way from ‘morning in America, ‘ to ‘midnight in America, ‘” Clinton said during her acceptance speech, making reference to former President Ronald Reagan’s campaign slogan.
Trump alleged that Clinton had made up facts about him and criticized media coverage of the Democratic convention and her speech.
The new presidential candidate was introduced by her daughter Chelsea, who spoke of her mother as “a woman “driven by compassion, by faith, by kindness, a fierce sense of justice, and a heart full of love”. And while many of her claims are true, there’s no doubt that her rhetoric can be polarizing.
It’s a strategy, said Bannon, to make this campaign a referendum on Donald Trump, who is unlikely to pull any punches going after the Democratic nominee whom he repeatedly refers to as “Crooked Hillary”.
She said Americans were willing to work, and work hard, but right now, “an very bad lot of people feel there is less and less respect for the work they do”. Furthermore, in light of the platform committee discussions, it makes us question where she really stands on important issues such as the TPP, fracking, single payer healthcare, war and military spending, Israeli occupation of Palestine, financial regulation, and money in politics.
She went on to promote plans to raise the minimum wage, expand health care and offer free public college for most Americans, all measures which Sanders promoted during the primary.
“When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit”, she said. And, with a decent number of young women voters still undecided, she could have referenced an emotionally charged story about a woman who suffered because she couldn’t get access to an abortion. “Yes, those were Donald Trump’s words in Cleveland”, she added. Some Sanders supporters, however, refused to be wooed, continuing to chant or boo throughout Clinton’s speech, provoking counter-chants of “Hillary, Hillary”, from the rest of the auditorium.
We’ll know soon if it’s a smart bet.
Donald Trump has beaten Hillary Clinton in the ratings race for their rival convention speeches. Listing various Trump goods (like ties, suits, and furniture), Clinton noted that they’re all made overseas. “Don’t let anyone tell you we don’t have what it takes”. “It was so exciting but I have to tell you it was also kind of overwhelming”.
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Trump was also not impressed by John Allen’s speech on Thursday night and said that retired four-star Marine Corps general failed at fighting ISIS. Which seems a tad harsh, coming from a man whose own acceptance speech promised that “the crime and violence that afflicts our nation” would “come to an end” the day he steps into the Oval Office.
