“America is once again at a moment of reckoning”.
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Obama’s Wednesday speech is pretty much the one I feared Clinton would give.
A parade of speakers – gay and straight, young and old, white, black and Hispanic – cast Mr Trump as out of touch with a diverse and fast-changing nation.
Spreading through the better parts of sections 104, 105 and 106 of the Wells Fargo Center, California’s delegation has been at the center of every stadium drama at this week’s Democratic National Convention.
Hillary, who described herself as a New Democrat at the outset of her 2008 campaign, got pushed left on the Trans- Pacific Partnership, the Keystone pipeline, Social Security, the minimum wage, criminal justice and immigration.
While Sanders tried to mollify his followers, many remained vocal about their discontent with the party and their hatred of Clinton.
Trump, a 70-year-old NY businessman and former reality TV show host who has never held political office, responded in a Twitter post late on Thursday that “Hillary’s vision is a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety”. He has proposed deeply controversial measures such as temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country and building a wall on the border with Mexico to stop illegal immigrants.
The RealClearPolitics polling average finds Trump and Clinton in a dead heat, with Trump just slightly ahead.
He added: “The America I know is full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity. We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have”, Clinton will tell delegates at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, according to excerpts of her remarks.
Nodding to voters’ concerns, Obama said he understood frustrations “with political gridlock, worry about racial divisions” and the slow pace of economic growth.
“There are pockets of America that never recovered from factory closures; men who took pride in hard work and providing for their families who now feel forgotten”, Obama will say.
Trump’s tweeted response to Clinton’s speech captured his pitch to those voters. Chelsea Clinton, who has been in the public eye since her childhood in the White House, took a low profile after her father left office in 2001.
Amid charges by Republicans that the optimistic mood of the Democratic convention has ignored the threat from ISIS and terrorism, Clinton was specific about the global national security threats that loom – though she didn’t use the term Islamic terrorism as the GOP repeatedly has called for.
Clinton delivered her speech at the end of a largely successful convention, which helped mend the party after her divisive primary against Sanders.
Free trade, an area where Clinton and Obama disagree, will not come up.
“Like any successful marriage, they make each other better”, the official said.
History in Philadelphia, capping decades of public service, Hillary Clinton accepts the democratic nomination in the race to be the next USA president.
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, an African-American and close ally of Clinton, was telling the story of his late father – a share-cropper in SC – on the convention’s first day when Sanders supporters started chanting “No TPP” and holding up signs opposing the trade pact.
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Hillary Clinton became the first woman to accept nomination for the USA presidency on Thursday. Vice President Joe Biden spoke to basic American principles and used characterizations often heard in Republican conventions. While Clinton and Obama have argued that ISIS is on the run, the economy is on the upswing, and Americans are safer than they have been in years, they are struggling to counter the dark image that Trump has painted of a nation in decline, chaos and disorder that resonates with many voters. Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, a relative unknown, got his first prime-time introduction to a national audience as he accepted the nomination as Clinton’s running mate.
