The Democrat and first woman nominee for a major party will tour Pennsylvania and OH by bus, while Trump jets to Colorado, where his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border could resonate with angry whites but repel Hispanics.
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Just over 100 days before Americans go to the polls, voters are being asked to choose between two sharply polarized visions – and between two monumentally unpopular candidates.
Virtually every minute of Clinton’s convention conveyed her history as a woman “in the arena”, as President Obama put it in a nod to Theodore Roosevelt.
The stakes are high: A loss to Trump would not only end Clinton’s political career, it could be a devastating coda to her and her husband’s political legacy and leave the Democratic Party weaker than it has been in a generation. Mothers commented on how thrilled they were for their daughters to witness the occasion, while others, whose mothers had passed away, remarked that it was a moment they would have loved. “But then I started running into people who told me stories”, she said and and listed out some of the stories about Trump.
Clinton went into her speech knowing she needed to inspire more trust and be seen as a credible “change-maker” in a year when most voters are dissatisfied with the status quo.
The U.S. attorney general decided not to pursue charges against Clinton, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, in recommending that no charges be filed, nonetheless called the storage of classified information on private email “extremely careless”.
Clinton will sit down for a rare interview with Fox News Sunday this weekend, hoping to push this message with the cable channels Republican viewership.
Stars like Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz and Paul Simon performed for the Democrats, and President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton showed off their oratorical skills.
“We’re going to stop the Syrian migrants from coming into the United States”, he said referring to the killing of a French priest, whose attackers proclaimed allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group.
Clinton said she would build an economy that gives jobs to everyone and not a few and a country where “love trumps hate”. And when we do, America will be greater than ever. “Donald Trump, you are no Ronald Reagan”, said Doug Elmets, a Reagan administration aide, echoing a famous debate quip by vice presidential nominee Lloyd Bentsen in 1988. “For the struggling, the striving and the successful…for all Americans”, Clinton said. Bernie Sanders, her primary season rival, saying, “I’ve heard you”.
“I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans, and Independents”.
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“I’m not telling you that everything is peachy keen – I’m telling you we’ve made progress, but we have work to do”.
