For Clinton’s home-state delegates, the Democratic National Convention meant balancing the needs and demands of the Bernie Sanders’ delegates with the goal of nominating their former US senator.
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Chelsea Clinton and father, former United States president Bill Clinton watch as Hillary Clinton speaks on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016.
“No one has worse judgment that Hillary Clinton – corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes” and “Hillary’s wars in the Middle East have unleashed destruction, terrorism and ISIS across the world”.
If the convention was a coronation for Clinton, it was also the beginning of a long farewell to Barack and Michelle Obama as they prepare to leave the White House. In fact, viewership for the Democrats’ first night slightly exceeded Thursday night’s count. “Our way of life is under threat by radical Islam and Hillary Clinton can not even bring herself to say the words”. PBS said its viewership for Clinton’s speech was 3.91 million people, and 2.75 million the week earlier for Trump.
Twitter users have zeroed in on Clinton’s gleeful reaction to the celebratory balloons, with some expecting further fireworks as her presidential face-off with Donald Trump kicks off. “My job titles only tell you what I’ve done”.
During the Rust Belt trip, Clinton will detail her pledge to raise wages and create jobs by unveiling a major infrastructure package within the first 100 days of her presidency, and encouraging companies to invest in workers. The shoot-from-the-hip billionaire believes he can make headway in those states with blue-collar white men, a demographic that has eluded Clinton and was unlikely to be swayed by a convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity. They say the nomination of a woman candidate by the Democratic Party is likely to encourage Zimbabwean women to seek nomination for the presidential race in 2018 in the southern African nation. What are we offering?
Citing recent terrorist attacks in the U.S. and overseas by “determined enemies that must be defeated”, Clinton said, “so it’s no wonder that people are anxious and looking for reassurance – looking for steady leadership”. The choice is clear, Clinton said.
She did what numerous cable pundits did throughout Thursday, talk about what Hillary Clinton did or didn’t have to say in her speech.
Clinton accused her Republican opponent in November’s election of sowing discord. And on Thursday, she acknowledged it. The stage is set for a general election showdown but check out the stage behind me. And their hearts. He understands their disappointment because, he admitted in his honest way, “I think it’s fair to say that no one is more disappointed than I am”. With a speech Melania Trump might want to borrow from someday, the first lady unexpectedly silenced a restive audience that had been waiting for Vermont Sen. “Your cause is our cause”.
Yet resentments lingered throughout the convention, with a handful of attendees heckling during her address others wearing neon shirts in protest.
Clinton aides dismissed the protests as little more than a few holdouts. “And we’ll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy”, she said.
“I was going to his this guy so hard, his head would spin. But then I started running into people who told me stories”, she said and and listed out some of the stories about Trump.
Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar similarly took Trump to task over his proposed ban on allowing foreign Muslims into the United States as he invoked the guarantees of religious freedom in America’s founding documents.
Speaker after speaker cast Trump as intolerant, inexperienced and risky, including the Pakistan-born immigrant father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, who held up a copy of the Constitution and insisted that Trump “has sacrificed nothing”.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday in Philadelphia that Trump’s fight against “Washington insiders” was prone to turn off some Republicans.
“I knew Ronald Reagan”.
“Here, at last, the profound, moving and devastating riposte to Donald Trump that many in America, and the world, had been waiting for”, the Guardian’s David Smith wrote. But who would they be voting for instead?
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Clinton said, “No, Donald, you don’t. I know this because I served with her”.
