Hillary Clinton took to the stage at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia on Thursday to deliver a stirring address as she accepted her party’s historic Presidential nomination.
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Trump supporters say Clinton deserves to be prosecuted for her handling of USA foreign policy as President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state and for her use of a private email server while in that office.
Clinton smiles during her speech during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Hillary Clinton accepts the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
“We will not build a wall, instead we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good job can get one”, she said.
“When the balloons dropped we were like kids at a party, ” she said.
Even though DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Clinton ally, resigned on Sunday, angry Sanders supporters throughout the week disrupted the convention and undermined efforts by Mrs Clinton and Mr Sanders to present a united front. One moment she said her “primary mission” would be to create jobs; the next she said her “highest priority” would be national security.
“Tonight, we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more flawless union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president”, Clinton said.
If her speech had a consistent theme, it pertained to her book “It Takes a Village” and the popular notion that our country is stronger when people work together.
On Thursday, people familiar with the matter said the FBI is investigating a cyber attack against another Democratic Party group, which may be related to the earlier hack against the DNC.
But it’s this number that has Clinton’s strategist seeing inroads with Republicans: 17% of Republican registered voters in CNN’s latest poll had an unfavorable view of Donald Trump and 23% of registered voters who identify as conservative said the same.
Though mostly positive, Clinton acknowledged some of what’s wrong: “Too many people haven’t had a pay raise since the crash”. President Bill Clinton watched from a seat on the convention floor, beaming with pride and repeatedly leaping to his feet. “Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart”, said Clinton, a former secretary of state. “We must seize this moment to elect Hillary Clinton as president of the United States of America”.
Clinton also suggested she would continue the Democrats’ fight to reform immigration laws.
Former Reagan administration official Doug Elmets announced he was casting his first vote for a Democrat in November and urged other Republicans who “believe loyalty to our country is more important than loyalty to party” to do the same.
Rather, she’s the tough, knowledgeable, practical, battle-tested politician who is now all that stands between him and the White House.
At a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, earlier in the day, Mr Trump said he did not want to watch the speech.
Mr Trump attacked Mrs Clinton for not saying the words “radical Islam” in her speech.
The delegates and guests also loved her anti-Trump barbs.
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Inevitably, Clinton also endeavored to humanize herself, talking about her discomfort with the “public” aspect of public service, and delving into her family history. If it was up to Donald Trump he never would have been in America.
