Actors and delegates took center stage in smaller and more subdued protests by Bernie Sanders supporters on a mostly quiet Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention.
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Clinton delegates would like the Sanders delegates to campaign actively for the party’s nominee.
“There has never been a man or a woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America”, Obama said.
The White House would like to make November’s crunch election a battle about competence versus incompetence, steady versus capricious, knowledge versus entertainment.
President Obama at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit in Poland earlier this month. “Hillary Clinton stood with me through that fight”. The former president had this to say about his wife: “She’s the best darn change-maker I’ve ever met in my whole life”.
He vouched robustly for Mrs Clinton’s readiness to finish the job he started, saying “no matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits”.
Obama and Clinton were rivals in the hard-fought campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination.
“I don’t know where you are, kid, but you are incredible”, Biden told Mrs. Obama, who was watching Wednesday’s convention proceedings from her mother’s house in Chicago.
In a delivery mixed with humour and his best known phrases such as “Yes we can” and “the audacity of hope”, Obama announced Clinton as the most qualified person to lead the US.
Speaking to delegates, Obama offered an alternative to businessman Trump’s vision of the United States as being under siege from illegal immigrants, crime and terrorism and losing influence in the world.
A former first lady and USA senator, Clinton made history on Tuesday when she became the first woman to secure the presidential nomination of a major party. She promises to tackle income inequality, tighten gun control and rein in Wall Street if she becomes president.
“America is already great”.
“Our strength, our greatness does not depend on Donald Trump”.
“Preach!” members of the crowd shouted.
Wednesday night’s Democratic lineup was aimed at emphasizing Clinton’s own national security credentials, a shift from two nights focused more on re-introducing her to voters as a champion for women’s issues, children and families.
Trump replied to Obama on Twitter, writing: “Our country does not feel “great already” to the millions of wonderful people living in poverty, violence and despair”.
He also mentioned his accomplishments over his two terms as president including Osama bin Laden’s killing, legalisation of gay marriage, an improved economy and diplomatic deals with Iran and Cuba, NBC News added.
“The first time I saw her we were, appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights”. “Anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end”.
“This is not your typical election”, Obama said during his fourth Democratic convention speech.
Mr Sanders had urged his supporters on Monday to fall in line behind Ms Clinton for the good of the country, but many were not swayed, not least because of the revelation that the party bureaucracy had intervened from the beginning of the process to assist her.
But Trump got a boost in opinion polls from his convention. Vice President Joe Biden, who decided against running for president this year after the death of his son, called it a “bittersweet moment”.
“I thought his message this morning was so, so effective, that it’s important that his supporters not just vote for Hillary Clinton but get active in the campaign to defeat the danger that Donald Trump is”, he said.
Hillary Clinton has the stage.
President Barack Obama endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as his successor, contrasting her as the optimistic choice for Americans against Republican nominee Donald Trump.
“Trump says he wants to run the nation like he runs his business”. I know a con when I see it. “That’s a bunch of malarky”, Biden said.
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“As of yesterday, I guess, officially, our campaign ended”, he told delegates from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont at a Wednesday morning breakfast.
