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Clinton talks education, bashes Trump in Minneapolis speech

Cleveland: The Republican National Convention would make a strong case to the American public against presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as to how her policies and that of President Barack Obama have made USA unsafe, the Trump Campaign said on Monday.

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Republicans kicked off their national convention in Cleveland this week by attacking Hillary Clinton as entitled and wrong for the country.

The Democratic presidential candidate condemned the killing of three Louisiana law enforcement officers, the latest in a recent string of shootings involving black men in Louisiana and Minnesota and police officers in Dallas.

His turnouts at rallies were astonishing and revealed a growing trend of young voters participating in the political process.I think Sanders and his campaign have done Clinton and the Democratic Party a favor by forcing them to recognize that millennials are more than their stereotype: whiny, do-nothing basement dwellers.

“Who would trust Hillary Clinton to protect them?” “He is blunt, direct, and strong”.

Speaking after Melania Trump made her prime-time remarks, Flynn addressed a rapidly dwindling crowd in Cleveland, as those in attendance packed up and promptly began streaming for the exits following the potential first lady’s address. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., second from left, as she arrives to speak at the American Federation of Teachers convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Monday, July 18, 2016.

Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, a State Department employee who was killed in Benghazi, is one of several speakers Monday night tied to the twin attacks on September 11, 2012 that left four Americans dead, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Though Clinton took several swipes at Trump, the bulk of her speech was focused on education policy.

As she turned towards her closing, delegates called out encouragement, while other held their hands together as if in prayer. Clinton downplayed those divisions Monday, saying she “personally (has) no time for these so-called education wars” and wants to “start making decisions about what’s best for our kids, not in conformance with some entrenched ideology”.

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The former USA secretary of state used much of her speech to call for criminal justice reform, an end to systemic racism and to denounce the killing of police officers as totally unjustified. “For all of this loss, for all of this grief, for all of the citizens of the tragedy in Benghazi has brought upon America – I blame Hillary Clinton”, said Smith.

Pat Smith mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith speaks during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland Monday