“Now Hillary Clinton should follow Wasserman Schultz’s lead and drop out”, Manafort said in a statement, citing Clinton’s storing of classified information on a private email server during her time as secretary of state. At a time when the president’s approval ratings have been healthy, the GOP helped lock in Obama’s strongest supporters behind the woman who had once been his political adversary. Still, the convention is a powerful stage from which Clinton can set out her vision, he said, and at the very least “give people a reason to feel better about her”. “That will be an important thing”, he said.
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Half of Clinton’s own backers say they consider her only slightly or not at all honest, and more than one-third say she’s only slightly or not at all likable, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted this month.
“I seem to be the only unifying theme that they had”, the presumptive Democratic nominee said.
“Voters will see very much a connection from life lessons she learned growing up in the family she did and what has really rooted her in what have become the causes of her life”, said Benenson. Bernie Sanders had mixed feelings.
Clinton and Trump each have the support of 42 percent of voters nationwide in the CBS News survey released Monday morning. They do, however, think they can make voters dislike her a little less by offering testimonials from people she’s had a positive impact on, while making her more relatable.
“She grew up as an ordinary kid in the suburbs of Chicago who went to public school”, said Melanne Verveer, the former first lady’s chief of staff, who remains a close confidante.
Kaine is Clinton’s newly minted VP pick, a self-proclaimed “boring”, Spanish-speaking senator from Virginia who has also served as mayor of Richmond, DNC Chair and the state’s governor. The emotional impact of learning about her mother’s mistreatment as an orphan was formative. “I think I have this old fashioned idea that when you are asking people to vote for you, it is kind of like a big job interview, and you ought to tell people what you think you can do for them”, she said. Sanders has said he wants a full roll call, which would showcase all his victories.
“It becomes a timeless narrative”, said Mo Elleithee, a 2008 campaign official who’s now a Georgetown University scholar. “They don’t know the details”, he said of younger voters.
When given just two choices, Trump led Clinton, 48 percent to 45 percent. He said there is talk among Sanders’ delegates of walking out during Kaine’s acceptance speech or turning their backs as a show of protest. The answer may come Monday night when Sanders addresses the convention.
Wasserman Schultz is leaving her post following the publication of thousands of emails suggesting the Democratic National Committee favored Clinton during her primary contest with Sanders, despite vowing to remain neutral.
Wasserman Schultz’s abrupt departure was undoubtedly an effort to keep the Democrats’ gathering from devolving into the tumult that marred last week’s Republican National Convention, when runner-up Ted Cruz pointedly and publicly refused to endorse nominee Donald Trump.
Philadelphia speakers include Anastasia Somoza, who was born with cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia and interned in Clinton’s Senate office; Karla Ortiz, an American citizen whose parents are undocumented and fear deportation; and Lauren Manning, one of the most severely injured survivors of the September 11 terror attacks whom Clinton helped to secure the medical care. “I’m thinking numerous 800,000 police officers were at some point athletes”.
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The ferocity of Trump’s attacks on Obama paradoxically make it easier for Clinton to advance the dual-track case she needs to make: that she will build on rather than demolish the president’s achievements while also tending to long-standing problems that predated the Obama years. “She’s got a lot of experience and I can’t stand Trump”, she said.
