Hours after Democrats put the first woman in history at the top of a major political party’s ticket, Donald Trump was in a news conference, publicly inviting a foreign adversary to conduct cyberespionage into Hillary Clinton’s email.
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Biden, using one of Trump’s favorite phrases while he was host of “The Apprentice”, further attacked the Republican presidential nominee during his convention speech.
Obama also slammed Trump – by his full name six times – for painting a gloomy view of America and offering no plan to fix it.
“He took the road he had to take”.
“She knows their dream is quintessentially American, and the American Dream is something no wall will ever contain”. “We can’t afford to take that chance”.
Lisa Goodman, who’s the vice chair of the state Democratic Party, says Biden’s words rang true for her. And one other thing about government that was interesting to me aside from all the comments about Donald Trump obviously, but the line that struck me was, “we don’t look to be ruled”.
Biden used his address on the third night of the Democratic National Convention to appeal to middle-class voters and convince them Hillary Clinton understands their concerns.
“He’s trying to tell us he cares about the Middle Class”, he said.
Running mate Tim Kaine and Vice President Joe Biden are in the lineup, too. “He’s betting that if he scares enough people, he might score just enough votes to win this election”, he said.
“His cynicism is unbounded”, Biden said, citing a lack of empathy and compassion summed up in Trump’s signature catchphrase, “You’re fired”.
Whether you believe that’s profound or platitudinous, for one night during a week, month, and year of the ugliest political eye-gouging, Obama and Biden offered the country a rare helping of optimism. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said that if it were proved that Russian Federation was behind another hack into Democratic National Committee emails, with an intent to influence US elections, “I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences”. “That is a bunch of malarkey”.
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.
Several Sanders delegates from Colorado told KRDO Newschannel 13 they feel the combined impact of all three speeches will help to sway some Bernie supporters to get behind Hillary.
On Independence Mall, a large crowd watching the speeches on massive TV screens set up by the cable network MSNBC, erupted into applause and cheers. I’ll tell you – folks – whatever – whatever he thinks, whatever he thinks, and I mean this in the bottom of my heart, I know I’m called middle class Joe. Give me a break!
“We can not elect a man who belittles our closest allies while embracing dictators like Vladimir Putin”, Biden insisted.
Biden could prove to be an important element to Clinton’s campaign, particularly in swing states such as OH and MI.
President Obama addresses the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
The struggle with cancer and eventual death his son Beau in May 2015 kept Biden out of the presidential race.
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“I built a business and I didn’t do it with a $1 million loan from my father”, Bloomberg said. But he added that it was the right call for him and his family.
