Obama repeatedly summoned Reagan’s sense of hope and optimism Wednesday night as Democrats try to attract disenchanted Republican voters uneasy about Donald Trump’s claim to the GOP mantle and fearful about a possible presidency. The highlight was Bill Clinton’s 10th consecutive Democratic National Convention speech, a folksy and personal chat that entranced the crowd.
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“For my friend Hillary Clinton, I humbly accept my party’s nomination to be vice president of the United States”, the Virginia senator said. Biden said at the Democratic National Convention.
“She knows their dream is quintessentially American, and the American Dream is something no wall will ever contain”. Better yet, Biden said Trump has “no clue period”. He also told a rowdy crowd here that Mr. Trump’s extreme lack of foreign policy knowledge would make the USA much less safe at a volatile time across the globe.
When President Barack Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention last night, he offered one of the strongest endorsements from a sitting president to a successor in modern memory.
This knowledge reveals one of the great advantages of our own, increasingly turbulent era: To anybody who bothers to look, the huge stakes of electoral competitions such as that between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are increasingly clear. “She had thick blond hair, big glasses, wore no makeup, and she had a sense of strength and self- possession that I found magnetic”. “Hillary understands that for years millions of people went to bed staring at the ceiling thinking, ‘Oh, my god, what do I do if I get breast cancer?”
Biden, 73, ran for president twice and spent months past year debating whether to challenge Hillary Clinton for the 2016 nomination before he opted out in October.
Suffice it to say, Kaine wasn’t going to be the headliner delegates were talking about as they walked out of the Wells Fargo Center late Wednesday night.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s “cynicism is unbounded”, US Vice-President Joe Biden has said. “I see a younger generation full of energy and new ideas, unconstrained by what is, and ready to seize what ought to be”.
“That is another bet that Donald Trump will lose”. The former Republican expressed outrage at Trump’s invitation to Russian Federation to hack Hillary Clinton’s email.
Trump entered American politics by calling for Obama to publish his birth certificate, questioning whether he was a true American. Think about that for a moment. “And that’s one reason why nearly every country on earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago”, he said.
“As someone who was responsible for protecting our nation from cyberattacks, it’s inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be that irresponsible”, he said.
In an election year marked by divisions, hate and racial strife, the commander-in-chief stayed positive.
It’s unclear whether the release will create as much of a firestorm as the emails release, but the timing of the release is clearly seeking to disrupt the Democrat’s confab.
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