No matter how hard Trump and the media try to drum up controversy, it won’t happen with Bill Clinton as the star attraction.
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“I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and can not be boiled down to 140 characters”, she said. She had agreed to push for free college tuition for households that make less than $125,000 a year, and she had reversed her previous support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty, which populists on the left and right call a job exporter. Rather than do that, Clinton painted his wife as the “change maker” around which all of the factions of the party could unite.
Bill Clinton began with a happy-go-lucky story of their meeting and ended with a testimonial to her toughness and determination.
Poll monitors had given Mrs Clinton a double-digit lead over Mr Trump for much of the presidential race, but that lead has since been whittled down.
Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential nominee of a major party, and her husband made a personal but forceful case for her to reoccupy the White House – this time from the West Wing. It was a phrase he used over and over, sending a message to Bernie Sanders’ supporters that she was, at heart, one of them; and to voters tempted by Donald Trump, that the woman with decades of political experience was the candidate more likely to produces the changes they would welcome.
She described herself as an anarchist socialist and said she can’t understand why Sanders supporters are still singing and cheering.
Delegates cheer former U.S. President Bill Clinton as he speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 26, 2016.
And some, particularly those angered by free trade deals, may vote for Trump. She said, ‘That is not a very good sales pitch.’8. “I thought when Bernie did that it was a great moment for our party”. And that’s pretty much the definition of a party regular: Someone who works for candidates he disagrees with – as long as they carry the right label and the disagreements aren’t too wide. “He is speaking to that rage that people feel, that our elected officials have sold us out to big corporate interests”. “There are some people who are not joiners. I could see where a lot of our adversaries would think it’s better to have someone who doesn’t have any idea what they’re doing than have somebody as tough as Hillary”.
“But the vast majority of delegates, activists and donors understand what’s at stake here, ” he said.
Outside the convention hall, protests turned more heated late on Tuesday.
Democrats should be “running scared” at the challenge posed by Donald Trump, President Obama has said. That all was a prelude to the former president, who was greeted with cheers and applause as he laid out the chronology of his relationship with the woman he met at Yale Law School 45 years ago.
Clinton, who aides say wrote his speech himself, emphasized the former first lady’s role as a wife, mother and advocate as well as a politician. Maybe we’ll get a Trump presidency, ‘” Biden said, adding: “Oh, I think Putin doesn’t want a united North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Unmoved by Sanders’ plea for unity, thousands of people chanting “Bernie or bust!” took to the streets under the hot sun.
“We can support our police officers while at the same time making criminal justice reforms”, he said.
“She’s been around a long time”.
After all, if the American middle class is in the throes of a 40-year decline, as Sanders claimed, that would include the administration of Bill Clinton. But the Democratic vice presidential nominee says the country has “an opportunity to do something magnificent” in electing Hillary Clinton as the first woman president.
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