Donald Trump isn’t known for the generosity of his criticism.
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Multiple times single or small groups of delegates attempted to heckle Clinton, only to be drowned out by chants of “Hillary” by her supporters.
Mrs Clinton, who is vying to be the first woman elected U.S. president, called her nomination “a milestone” and said she was happy for grandmothers and little girls and “everyone in between”.
A week after it emerged she had plagiarised from Michelle Obama in her speech to the Republican convention, Trump has been forced to take down her own website, the NY Times reports.
If so, the tycoon still has a long way to go before establishing his credibility as an evenhanded commentator.
After offering to lend his copy of the U.S. Constitution to Donald Trump, he said to the Republican nominee: “You have sacrificed nothing, and no one”. “Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart”, she said. She deftly humanized herself, showing how each of the roles she has played throughout her life have been leading to this historic moment.
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”, she said as cameras fixed on Massachusetts Sen.
Her high-stakes remarks follow a rousing speech by US President Barack Obama, who said there had never been a man or woman more qualified than Mrs Clinton to serve as president.
“Some people just don’t know what to make of me”, she said with a frankness that is unusual in American politics.
Earlier in the evening, Trump accused her former rival in the democratic primary, Bernie Sanders, of “selling out”. Chelsea relayed some personal anecdotes, trying to offer the human side of her mother that is so often missing.
So, she offered America a big dose of Bernie’s economics and JFK’s resolve. Here are excerpts from her speech, plus everything else that happened on the last night of the Democratic National Convention.
“As a woman, I fully appreciate what she did regardless of how she did it”, said Oklahoma state Senator Connie Johnson, one of the few superdelegates who supports Sanders.
Trump did say those words when explaining why he thinks he is the best candidate for president.
The politician is then expected to deliver her mission as president: “So I want to tell you tonight how we’re going to empower all Americans to live better lives”. “Here’s how: It’s because she never, ever forgets who she’s fighting for”.
“I will be a President for Democrats, Republicans, and independents”. She said she was motivated by a tenet of her Methodist faith: Do all the good you can.
I’m moved that we actually got here in my lifetime, and I’m glad that it’s her: This woman, of all women, has had to fight to earn her place at the table.
She used it as a lead up to her work with the Children’s Defense Fund. In her family, Clinton said, overcoming obstacles was a team effort. “And we’ll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy”.
Her actions in and views toward Libya, Egypt, or Syria suggest a foreign policy view concerned with keeping Americans safe, and she certainly wasn’t clear-eyed about what our country was up against in Benghazi. But unlike the former, who was forced to outline a reality that seemed at odds with her father’s policy, the latter was able to make the pitch for these policies through the arc of her mother’s story.
The presidential election probably will turn on a calculation that all voters will be making, a balance between the desire for change and the fear of risk – the change Trump’s outsider candidacy promises vs. the risk his presidency might bring.
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Clinton talked about her upbringing.
