If the first day of the Democratic National Convention focused on disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters, the second day focused effectively on Hillary Clinton.
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Sections of the convention hall were left conspicuously unpopulated on Tuesday night as delegates from strongly pro-Sanders delegations, including California, walked out after Sanders moved that Clinton be named the nominee.
Hillary Clinton capped Tuesday’s proceedings at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with an empowering message to young girls.
Clinton is scheduled to deliver her acceptance speech tomorrow. He called his wife, “first and foremost, a mother”.
“One is real and one is made up”, the former President said. “Cartoons are two-dimensional; they’re easy to absorb”, he said.
“It’s pretty exciting. she’s the best”.
“I thought I was doing pretty well “til the register looked up and said, ‘Bill what are you doin” here?”
He said she had been by his side through “good times and bad, joy and heartbreak”.
Before Clinton and her husband were the power couple we know today, they were just two law students at Yale growing up in the ’70s: “In the spring of 1971, I met a girl”.
“Now, how does this square with the things that you heard at the Republican convention?”
On a night awash in history, Hillary Clinton triumphantly became the first woman to lead a major American political party toward the White House, breaking through a barrier that painfully eluded her eight years ago.
In a show of unity, Sanders closed the voting by moving to suspend the rules and have the record show Clinton unanimously selected.
Clinton has been a regular speaker at Democratic conventions since at least 1980 and returned to the convention arena in 2012, when he gave a rousing 48-minute speech in support of President Obama’s re-election.
Sanders spoke for Vermont, his home state, at around 6:53 p.m. ET after the delegation first asked to pass on announcing its vote count, given in alphabetical order by state. Some marched to a media tent just outside the Wells Fargo Center and staged a sit-in. Some had tape over the mouths, symbolizing they felt they had been silenced. “She’s killing black people”. Kids who live in poverty, you got a champion!
Clinton also has several Indian-Americans in key positions in her campaign including Huma Abedin, Neera Tanden, Shefali Razdan Duggal and Aditi Hardikar.
“The real one repeatedly drew praise from Republicans when she was a senator and secretary of state”.
“It was one of our darkest days”.
Clinton has made gun safety a foundation of her presidential campaign, vowing to push for expanded criminal background checks and a renewal of a ban on assault weapons. Albright said a Trump presidency “would be a gift to Vladimir Putin”.
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Still, in the convention hall itself, the party seemed much more united behind Clinton than it had been on the first day, when Sanders supporters frequently jeered any mention of her name. He had spoken twice to accept his party’s presidential nomination, and so bright was his star, even as a former president, that in 2004 he was slotted as far as possible from the nominee.
