These supporters of Sanders believe that Clinton stands for everything they oppose, including her close ties to Wall Street and the widespread belief that she isn’t trustworthy.
Advertisement
Vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine also addressed the convention, accepting the party’s nomination.
After watching Joe Biden’s blustery, emotional performance at the Democratic National Convention, I thought, Trump really does have a good chance of winning in November.
The vice president responded that there were “a lot more speakers to come” and acknowledged that people – rich and poor – were concerned about ISIS, but he laughed at the idea that the Republican ticket knew how to effectively handle the situation.
“Let me say something that has nothing to do with politics”.
The president made the comments in a taped interview aired Wednesday.
The trend continued all night.
“It’s time to put a bully racist in his place”, said former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who lost to Clinton in the primaries.
Mostly, though, Democrats were unsparing in the attacks on Trump. Instead, the party’s liberal wing have called for everything from a halt to war and fracking to clean-up efforts in Flint, Michigan’s polluted water.
It’s an insult to all the pain that so many Americans have suffered over the last 15 years to send out an amiable blowhard who has been in public office since the early 1970s, and have him go on and on about how Americans never fail. She appeared with her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly.
“It’s inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be this irresponsible”, he said.
Obama meant to drive home the idea in the evening’s finale, tearing down Trump while endorsing Clinton as the fierce former rival who later became one of his most important and trusted advisers. He must not hear the billions of men, women, and children, from the Baltics to Burma, who still look to America to be the light of freedom, dignity, and human rights.
Inside, it was all about the Clintons on Tuesday.
Advertisement
Noting that his son, Nat, deployed with the US Marines this week, Kaine quickly slammed Trump for raising the possibility that his administration wouldn’t always defend North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies. “These guys don’t know what they’re talking about”, Biden said.
