The highlight of the night was an impassioned speech by former President Bill Clinton on behalf of his wife. This was a four-day Hillary party.
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“Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face, and she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known”, he said, hitting back at Republican arguments she is a Washington insider tied to the status quo.
President Barack Obama has admitted for the first time that Donald Trump could succeed him and advised Hillary Clinton to “run scared” as she prepared to become the first female nominee of a major USA political party.
Rendell says the Democratic Party won’t be able to get 100% of Bernie Sanders supporters to vote for Clinton, but he believes they could get up to 90% by November.
“They’re running against a cartoon”. “We’re the party of tomorrow, and we will build a true democracy in America”, Lewis said. In an interview on NBC that screened on Wednesday morning, he said he thought a Trump presidency was a real possibility. As The Huffington Post points out, the former president has only recently began telling the terrific tale of trying to convince his future bride to run for office.
In 2012, Bill Clinton arguably helped put President Barack Obama on a path to re-election with a convention speech testifying to his stewardship of the nation out of recession, and on a path to economic recovery.
VICE President Joe Biden has slammed Donald Trump and his claim to be a champion of the middle class, earning cheers from delegates at the Democratic convention.
When we change enough minds; when we deliver enough votes, then progress does happen.
Bill Benet, a Sanders delegate from Monroe County, said he’s heeding Sanders’ call to support Clinton.
Obama gave a forceful endorsement of Clinton, who served as his secretary of state, just eight years after the two competed against each other for the Democratic primary.
So after his wife, Michelle Obama, brought delegates to their feet with a stirring speech Monday evening, Obama stayed up late into the night fine-tuning his words, the White House said.
Speaking to the Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia, Obama offered an alternative to businessman Trump’s vision of the United States as being under siege from illegal immigrants and terrorism and losing its way in the world.
Sanders took the floor in a bid to unify the party, drawing deafening cheers and a chorus of “ayes” when he called for Hillary Clinton to be selected.
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I ask her what that justice would look like and she answers, “People of all backgrounds coming together, people who have been left out, understanding our power together”.
