But she conceded: “Too many people haven’t had a pay raise since the crash”, adding: “Democrats, we are the party of working people but we haven’t done a good enough job showing that we get what you’re going through, and that we’re going to do something about it.” she said.
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“Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son ‘the best of America.’ If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America”.
So chalk this one as a win for Trump after a tough week in which he looked like he might not claim the rating wars-the ratings for the previous three nights of the star-studded DNC had edged out the first three nights of the RNC by millions of viewers.
Trump is also focusing on OH and Pennsylvania, as states where he might make headway with blue-collar white men.
Last fall on Meet the Press, Sanders was asked to explain the difference between his political outlook and that of Establishment Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
During her speech, Clinton said the country was at “a moment of reckoning”, presenting herself as the responsible choice for president instead of Trump. “Same old stuff, our country needs change!”
Clinton’s flaws were on full display during the Democratic National Convention, where she was formally nominated as the Democrat’s candidate for President. But in Hillary Clinton’s America, millions of people are left out in the cold. “Really? I alone, can fix it?”.
In her speech, Ms Clinton offered an open-hand to backers of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, saying, “I’ve heard you”. Let me tell you, the family I’m from, no one had their name on big buildings. During her acceptance speech, she quoted Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous phrase: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.
Global conflict Clinton recalled Jackie Kennedy’s recollections of her husband’s fears when the world was pushed to the brink of an another global conflict during the Cuban missile crisis. Democrats hammered home those themes this week with an array of politicians, celebrities, gun-violence victims, law enforcement officers and activists of all races and sexual orientation.
He said Clinton “cannot even say the words” radical Islam, while accusing her in another tweet of “unleashing destruction, terrorism and ISIS across the world”. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons“.
In other data the Google News Lab has shared with USA TODAY in recent months, terms like “FBI” and “indictment” were very common among Clinton-related searches. Kaine told CNN he found the Republican gathering “dark and depressing'”.
Clinton’s speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination was the capstone of that effort, serving as a call to unity, offering an outstretched hand to those alienated by Trump, and sketching out an optimistic vision of America’s future. Making the election about Trump doesn’t seem like the worst campaign strategy for a number of reasons, especially because Trump is such a volatile candidate.
She accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president Thursday night with a message stressing the need to unite in order to confront the nation’s challenges.
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Trump Jr suggested that Obama’s speech in Philadelphia on Wednesday night lifted a line from his Republican National Convention remarks, pointing out that both addresses contained the line “That’s not the America I know”. “Your cause is our cause”.
