The night’s final speaker was President Barack Obama, appearing 12 years after he burst onto the national stage with his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic convention.
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And he recited why he thought Democrats have a strong edge over Republicans in November, listing party positions promoting gay rights and other social issues. The effort to portray Trump as unfit for the presidency carried over, too.
Political analysts will be watching closely in the coming days to see if Clinton receives a bounce nationally from the convention, which was well received for its crisp choreography. “I grew up in poverty, I know poverty very well”.
“What we heard was a deeply pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other, and turn away from the rest of the world”, Obama said. “Millions!” Trump said Friday during a campaign appearance in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
How did her speech hold up on the truth-meter? But he grew harsher as his event went on.
Clinton stole some of Donald Trump’s talking points, then inexplicably claimed that Trump never talked about those things.
Chelsea Clinton, hoping to become the first daughter for a second time, introduced her mother.
Trump Jr. linked to a POLITICO tweet, which quoted Obama as saying “That’s not the America I know”. “Can I be honest with you about something?”
One man’s opinion is one choice for America.
“I’m thinking about getting some of the great sports people I know, who like me a lot”, Trump said at a June rally in Richmond, Virginia.
Clinton said America had arrived at a “moment of reckoning” with this election, and that “powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart”.
The statement said Clinton’s remarks were “delivered from a fantasy universe, not the reality we live in today”. The billionaire believes he can make headway in those states with blue-collar white men, a demographic that has eluded Ms Clinton and was unlikely to be swayed by a convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity. Democrats hammered home those themes this week with an array of politicians, celebrities, gun-violence victims, law enforcement officers and activists of all sexual preferences and races. “The Republican convention was like a twisted negative tour”. He described the Republican gathering as “dark and depressing”.
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And Clinton offered an open hand to backers of Vermont Sen. “She also tells you how she’s going to pay for it”, she said. “Your cause is our cause”.
