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Donald Trump Faults GOP for Poor Convention Ratings

She had made the same criticism in her Thursday night convention speech.

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“I think I have a great temperament, I have a temperament where I know how to win”, Trump said.

“It’s a real challenge for us, I’m not going to lie to you”, said Cherri Senders, publisher of Labor 411 and communications consultant for labor unions and nonprofits.

“It’s true, I sweat the details of policy”, Mrs Clinton said, adding that details should be a “big deal” to the president. “We have to decide whether we will all work together so we can all rise together”.

Wall Street, corporations and the super-rich are going to start paying their fair share of taxes, she said.

When he mentioned Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state and why the Federal Bureau of Investigation chose not to prosecute her because of the way she’d handled classified information, the crowd began chanting “Lock her up”, suggesting Clinton should be jailed. So let me tell you.

In stark contrast to Republican nominee Donald Trump’s provocative speech last week, Ms Clinton’s was positive, reaffirming and centered on the theme of unity.

Clinton said that Trump had painted a negative and divided picture of “a country in decline”, and that assertions that only he could right the problems “set off alarm bells”.

Trump Jr suggested that Obama’s speech in Philadelphia on Wednesday night lifted a line from his Republican National Convention remarks, pointing out that both addresses contained the line “That’s not the America I know”. “It was a tour of Donald Trump’s mind, and that’s a very frightening place”.

Sanders supporters not only have to feel welcome, they need to feel heard and respected.

Almost every protester we spoke to proudly announced they would be leaving the Democrats for good. The father of Captain Humayun Khan, a decorated Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, had strong words for Donald Trump.

Americans did not say, “I alone can fix it”, but “we’ll fix it together”, she said.

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“It is with humility, determination, and boundless confidence in America’s promise I accept your nomination for the president of the United States”, Clinton told the crowd as she officially became the first woman to lead a major political party’s ticket. The businessman has pointed to her handling of the killings of Americans in Benghazi, Libya and her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state.

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