Trump took to Facebook Friday morning where he described Clinton’s speech as “an insulting collection of cliches and recycled rhetoric” and one “delivered from a fantasy universe, not the reality we live in today”. The former secretary of state reached out to her former party opponent Bernie Sanders disappointed voters and said, “I want to thank Bernie Sanders”.
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“Your cause is our cause”, she told her former rival’s his ardent supporters – and they gave her plenty of applause. It was the strongest connection I’d ever heard him make with her. And then you had that visual of Hillary Clinton walking on stage and she hugged Obama and they embraced and you saw what they were trying to do. While ratings for the first three nights of the DNC have beaten those for the Republican National Convention, Trump said “we had a tremendously successful convention in Cleveland”, and added that his speech one week ago got “rave reviews”.
On the whole, they succeeded, with Bill Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama and a succession of celebrities, veterans, party activists and even a couple of Republicans, offering testimonials for Hillary Clinton – and making the case against Trump. Vice President Joe Biden said of Trump that no major party nominee has been less prepared to handle the country’s national security.
Frame said she believes some voters still hold female politicians to different standards than their male counterparts.
Perhaps Trump has made a decision to cultivate a new image as a fair-minded critic and will soon be referring to the Democratic nominee as “Could Be More Ethical (Although, Really, Who Am I to Say?) Hillary”.
Mrs Clinton said her presidential nomination was a milestone on America’s “march toward a more ideal union”.
She also called Trump a “bully” and denounced his comments on women, Mexicans, and people with disabilities, saying he “wants to divide us from the rest of the world, and from each other”.
“Bernie Sanders and I will work together to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for all”, Clinton said. “He’s forgetting every last one of us…we say, we’ll fix it together”.
If you’re with her, Thursday is the night to tune in. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”, Clinton said, alluding to Trump’s penchant for social media. “We will also liberate millions of people who already have student debt”.
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Obama is expected to campaign heavily across the nation in support of Clinton in October, White House officials said. Those spirits were lifted further when the balloon drop that signals the end of the convention took place.
