Barack Obama will add an optimistic pitch on Wednesday to the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton as the first woman US president, as he seeks to hand off the White House to a trusted fellow Democrat and stop Republican Donald Trump.
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The president also criticized Trump for failing to “spend a lot of time trying to find out about issues”, such as USA nuclear defense options, or the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
With her poll numbers dropping to a 20-year low, U.S. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton desperately needs the democratic convention in Philadelphia to be a success to boost her in the polls. It will be his 10th time addressing Democratic national conventions.
“We followed Bernie’s lead and we followed him out”. Clinton has never seen an autobiographical detail or anecdote he didn’t like, and the relish with which he talks about himself is perversely one of the qualities that makes him so charming as a speaker.
Obama was closing a night also featuring vice- president Joe Biden, and Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine.
Trump rehashed the speech: “And didn’t he say, ‘I then grabbed her?’ And I say, boy, this is getting a little insane now”.
“I want a massive, progressive, intersectional feminist revolution”.
“My friend, Yusor, lost her life in the Chapel Hill shooting in 2015 and that has pushed me to go into politics”, she said. Sanders said at a breakfast for Vermont, New Hampshire and ME delegates at a hotel outside Philadelphia.
Amid all the cheering and praise for Clinton, the best moment of the convention was perhaps the speech of the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. Any former president speech would do that for their party’s nominee. “And that’s what Bill Clinton has done”, he said. In 1988 Reagan gave an unforgettable primetime address on the opening night of George H.W. Bush’s convention.
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner: “You take a look at her resume and what she’s accomplished, I think you can make a pretty good case that she’s the most accomplished candidate for president maybe since George Washington”.
After Mr Sanders took the decision to short-circuit the state-by-state announcement of votes for each candidate, delegates were treated to a cloying appeal by former president Bill Clinton that they should support his wife. While campaigning in Kentucky, though, she might have gotten carried away.
“You know it because she’s spent a lifetime doing it. I hope you will do it. I hope you will elect her. “Those of us who have more yesterdays than tomorrows tend to care more about our children and grandchildren”. “Especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out”.
Charm, he does best, and Mr. Clinton hardly had to strain to electrify the crowd.
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Now, the idea of two-for-one is back, and Bill Clinton as first spouse could be one half of a powerful team. When he ran for the first time in 1992, Bill Clinton used to boast that voters would be getting two for the price of one – a declaration that became problematic for the Clintons.
