Clinton closed the second night of the Democratic convention, a jubilant celebration of Hillary Clinton’s formal nomination for president.
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After weathering a stormy opening day, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating convention tacked slowly but steadily back on course Tuesday, as Hillary Clinton made history by becoming the first woman to be nominated for president by a major United States political party.
Clinton’s nomination culminates the first chapter of a long, rough road to the White House. Two names were placed in nomination, those of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Mikulski was the first Democratic woman to be elected to the Senate in her own right.
Clinton was elected the party’s nominee for president in an overwhelming shout of “aye”, prompting many attendees to emphatically wave multicolored signs bearing Clinton’s “H” logo.
Trump, 70, who has never held elective office, got a boost in opinion polls from his nomination at the Republican convention last week.
Several Oregon delegates, meanwhile, wrapped black cloth around their jaws, as gags, and headed into the hallway of the Wells Fargo Center.
When Sanders finally made his motion after the count was complete, diehard supporters could be heard booing and chanting “Walkout!”
Although the outcome was virtually a foregone conclusion, the state-by-state vote saw rowdy displays on the convention floor. Sanders, who had already conceded defeat and endorsed his rival, moved to make her nomination by acclamation – the final gracious gesture of the runner-up.
“I get that there are powerful politicians that need to remain in power”, Morelli said.
“In the spring of 1971, I met a girl”: Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton at Yale in the early 1970s.
Throughout the campaign, Sanders mobilized frustrated Democrats and independents around the hope of progressive change throughout the primary campaign.
That turmoil followed internal drama that wracked the convention Monday, when furious Sanders backers continued lashing out, even after engineering the ouster of national Democratic leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
And of course, there was no way some folks were going to buy Clinton’s remarks.
Hillary Clinton is sworn in as secretary of state in February 2009.
Here are social media reactions from MI attendees and others around the state to Clinton’s formal nomination.
Clinton was formally nominated on the second evening of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, more than nine years after launching her first presidential bid.
As Scully spoke, a passer-by called out: “That’s a vote for Trump!”
Minutes earlier, the former president said, “She’s been worth every single year she’s put into making people’s lives better”.
“I do feel like my vote is a vote against internment and Trump”, Ahmad said.
She also called Sanders’ motion for a unity vote “admirable”, though she said the end result still wasn’t what she wanted.
Adam Stuart Littman, another Sanders delegate, said he hasn’t decided who to vote for but that he has to look at the whole field.
“In order to try and deflect the horror and stupidity of the Wikileakes [sic] disaster, the Dems said maybe it is Russian Federation dealing with Trump”, he tweeted. He congratulated the Democratic delegates on choosing “the real one”, and rejecting the cartoon caricature. “You know it because she spent a lifetime doing it”, Bill said in his address to the Democratic National Convention here, hours after the party nominated his wife Hillary as its presidential candidate for the November elections.
“The Sanders movement, our revolution, we’re not coming for a seat at the table”.
Clinton said they had essentially created “a cartoon” to run against. Lucinda Hines-Clabaugh, one of the OR delegates who put on a black gag, initially thought Sanders had done the right thing by nominating Clinton.
At that meeting, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison and the incoming DNC committeewoman in Nevada Allison Stephens committed to help mediate a meeting between Sanders supporters and the state Democratic Party.
“I’d like to shake their hands and say thank you for taking this step”, Giunchigliani said.
“Good for you, because earlier today you nominated the real one”.
“If you want to have a real revolution, you don’t stay home, you fight”, Titus said.
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Supporters of Hillary Clinton say her Washington credentials show she has the experience needed for the White House during tough times as the United States tries to hasten its economic recovery and tackle challenges overseas like Daesh and the rise of China.
