Tim Kaine, will make through the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Trump is also targeting OH and Pennsylvania as states where he can make headway with blue-collar white men.
Clinton was direct to the point in gun control.
Democrats contrasted their optimistic, policy-laden message with the dark vision and lack of specifics that marked Trump’s speech during the Republican convention a week earlier.
“He’s offering empty promises”. “The choice is clear”.
She presented a sharply more upbeat view of the country than her rival Trump offered when Republicans nominated him last week, and even turned one of Republican hero Ronald Reagan’s signature phrases against the NY real-estate developer.
She also stressed how dedicated her mother is to public service. And on Thursday, she acknowledged it. Clinton has picked up some endorsements from Republicans in recent weeks, including Brent Scowcroft, a national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush; Hank Paulson, a Treasury secretary under President George W. Bush; and Dan Akerson, a former top executive with General Motors and Nextel. “Especially in places that for too long have been left out and left behind”, Clinton said. Those statements left her either “outraged and ready to cry or read to start swinging”.
He says he hopes Clinton will address underprivileged communities in the way Sanders promised to.
Lacking Obama’s sweeping rhetoric or the “feel-your-pain” sensitivity of her husband, Clinton leaned into her wonky image, saying: “I sweat the details of policy”.
He is expected to cement Clinton’s lead among Hispanic voters and offer her a political boost among Virginia’s independent voters and moderate Republicans displeased with Trump.
Clinton said she’s heard the views of Bernie Sanders’ steadfast supporters and says their cause is her cause. “Your cause is our cause”.
She said Americans are willing to work, and work hard.
Clinton aides dismissed the protests as little more than a few holdouts.
“If any of you are looking for the party of Lincoln, we have got a home for you right here in the Democratic Party”, Kaine said in his convention address on Wednesday.
Clinton said: “We will prevail”. “I’m voting for a fighter who never ever gives up and who believes that we can always do better when we come together and we work together”.
During the run-up to the speech, MSNBC’s Joy Reid defined the tonal difference between this month’s Democratic and Republican events by saying, “The Republican Party sort of is pining for the America that was, and the Democrats fully embrace and adore the America that is”.
Speaker after speaker cast Trump as intolerant, inexperienced and unsafe, including the Pakistani-immigrant father of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq, who waved the Constitution and remarked that Trump “has sacrificed nothing”.
“I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill (Clinton), nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America”, Obama thundered before a cheering crowd. I worked for Ronald Reagan.
5 “Do you really think Donald Trump has the temperament to be Commander-in-Chief?” “This year, I will vote for a Democrat for the first time”.
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“When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit”, Clinton said Thursday night. “I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture”.
