Hillary Clinton’s historic confirmation as the first woman to become a major party’s presidential nominee gives her the chance to redefine her personal connection with the American people, advisers said.
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As part of the ongoing push to bring Democrats together following repeated shows of dissent from disenchanted Sanders supporters, Sanders addressed the convention and moved for Clinton to be acclaimed the party nominee.
They also cast 47 votes for Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who recommended Clinton’s nomination to close out the roll call process.
“If Hillary Clinton is president, we’ve lost our democracy”, Steve Stokes, another Sanders supporter, said.
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A former first lady, NY senator and secretary of state, Clinton enters the general election with a lengthy resume of public service, almost universal name recognition, and historically high negative favorability ratings after failing to shake recurrent scandals over her handling of a private email server during her tenure at the State Department. And beginning in 2009, she served four years as secretary of state during the Obama administration. After she delivered her speech, she was met with boos from the crowd. Detractors view her as too cozy with the establishment, and with political baggage dating back to the start of her husband’s first White House term.
Though the Republican National Convention took place in her hometown, she was also absent from the RNC and has not endorsed Donald Trump.
He was booed by his own supporters again yesterday at a breakfast meeting of Californian Democrats when he called on them to beat Trump by voting for Clinton.
Trump has been a frequent target at the Democratic gathering, where several videos featured his comments about women and the disabled, and tried to discredit the real estate mogul’s business record.
These catcalls, as well as the images of delegates in Sanders T-shirts waving placards that read “Hill No”, were not the sort of messages that the Clinton campaign wanted.
“I would best characterize it as being sent on a wild goose chase”, Smith said.
“I want them to know they have nominated a flawed candidate who can not win”, said Vincent Venditti, a Georgia delegate who supported President Obama in 2012 and 2008.
Paducah resident Aaron Bugg, a Kentucky delegate and staunch supporter of Sanders, is at the convention.
Bill Clinton, president from 1993-2001, draws the admiration of many in the party, but carries some liabilities.
UPDATE: 2:20 p.m. EDT – Christian protesters clashed with people on the street Tuesday as the LGBT caucus played out at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, according to tweets from Penn Live reporter Colin Deppen.
Clinton was nominated by Maryland Sen.
While many supporters of Bernie Sanders are on hand and being very vocal, the number of pledged delegates for Hillary Clinton outnumber those for the Vermont senator.
She alluded to those who have questioned President Barack Obama’s “citizenship or faith, and scorned Mr Trump’s slogan”.
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Hillary Clinton has suggested that in lieu of first lady he could be called “first dude, the first mate, the first gentlemen”.
