“To have him top it off before we nominate Hillary Clinton tomorrow – I don’t know how much more ammunition you need”.
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Hillary Clinton on Thursday accepted the Democratic Party’s White House nomination, casting herself as a tireless champion of the people and rejecting Donald Trump’s dark picture of America.
The president tapped on his chest and added: “That’s what matters”. On Thursday, she gets to tell America why she thinks her mom would make the best president.
“Believe me!” he said mockingly, as the audience boomed back, “No!” “He wants us to fear the future and fear each other”.
She embraced her reputation as a studious wonk, a politician more comfortable with policy proposals than rhetorical flourishes. As the delegates roared their excitement and surprise, she walked into a circle of white stars woven into the blue carpet. In the biggest moment of her almost 25-year political career, aides say Clinton on Thursday evening will lay out a positive vision for the future and detail her proposals to improve the economy, boost the country’s security and unite a divided nation.
The shirts read “Enough is Enough”, a Sanders campaign slogan, on the front and back, and make clear where the pockets of Sanders’s supporters are scattered throughout the center. It is also about preserving his legacy. “She knows that sometimes during those 40 years, she’s made mistakes, just like I have, just like we all do”. The 2016 election, as Obama readily conceded, is not a predictable equation. Those are just some of the references made to Donald Trump by Democrats who are holding their national convention in Philadelphia.
When she chose to attack Republican nominee Donald Trump, Clinton’s criticisms were very personal, accusing Trump of narcissism, dishonesty, and genuine instability. “That is a bunch of malarkey”, Biden said. “How can there be pleasure in saying, “You’re fired”?” They speak, nearly in shock, of how Trump’s campaign is built on hate, fear, rage, bigotry, sexism and demagoguery.
Tim Kaine is mocking Donald Trump for being ignorant of “basic civics” and wrongly saying Kaine was a bad governor of New Jersey. In one email, Mikulski spoke about a recent party, where she said Clinton had looked so “fit n sparkly”. Part of their fear is based on the realization that Clinton lacks the warm, people-friendly attributes that worked wonders for her husband Bill Clinton in his two winning presidential campaigns. He also accused Trump of having a “deeply pessimistic vision” of the country. The president used his speech to defend himself while commending Clinton in the process. She disputed Trump’s assertion that she wants to repeal the Second Amendment, saying “I’m not here to take away your guns”. The United States, Obama argued, meets its commitments without “a price tag”. “She’s ready because she knows in America we are stronger when we are together”.
“America is already great”. This is a topic he returns to again and again, noting how important participation in elections can be to see change at all levels of government.
The GOP convention last week in Cleveland fanned “resentment, and blame, and anger, and hate”.
The president’s spokesmen and Clinton’s campaign team have said Obama will campaign wherever and whenever he can.
“We have the turn-outer-in-chief, and he will make sure there will be a massive turnout here”, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, the former Democratic National Committee chairman in the 2000 cycle, told RealClearPolitics Wednesday.
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On Friday, Clinton and Kaine will hold a rally in Philadelphia before making a weekend bus tour together in Pennsylvania and OH, two of perhaps a dozen battleground states that will determine Obama’s successor.
