In a passage that captured both this election and the volatile world awaiting the next president, Clinton said: “America is once again at a moment of reckoning”.
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Her speech came just before a moving video narrated by Morgan Freeman, which featured a bevy of Clinton supporters, including President Obama and 9/11 survivors who spoke of her concern during the attacks.
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons”.
“Don’t believe anyone who says “I alone can fix it”. The reference was to a Trump line.
Mentioning the billionaire tycoon more than 20 times, Clinton painted a picture of a failed businessman who does not pay contractors, makes business deals overseas, not locally, and lacks national security credentials.
Clinton reserved some of her most pointed language to take digs directly at Trump, wasting precious little time before taking on the Republican nominee. We will disrupt their efforts online to reach and radicalize young people in our country.
“We are not afraid”.
Much of Clinton’s speech was targeted at Trump, while drawing contrasts with approach of her own party. But the same would be true of those who watched Trump’s speech online last week. “We will surge our intelligence so that we detect and prevent attacks before they happen. We will work with all Americans and our allies to fight terrorism”.
History was made on July 28, and her name is Hillary Clinton. She won the nomination after defeating her principal rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, in the state-by-state process of primary and caucus votes.
Obama: “I’m Barack Obama, running for president and I approve this message”.
Trump was also not impressed by John Allen’s speech on Thursday night and said that retired four-star Marine Corps general failed at fighting ISIS.
“We have to heal the divides in our country, not just on guns, but on race, immigration and more”, she said”.
Clinton yesterday channeled Republican President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 “Morning in America” ad and said that Trump’s taken the Republican Party a long way” from those days to “Midnight in America’.
Clinton added that American is a nation where “love trumps hate”.
“She spent the evening talking down to the American people (who) she’s looked down on her whole life”, Trump senior policy advisor Stephen Miller said in a statement late Thursday.
But Mrs Clinton said Democrats had not done a good enough job of showing working families that they understood what they were going through and said she agreed with families who have told her the economy was not working. All eyes are now on November’s election.
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Last week, halfway through the Republican convention in Cleveland, I wrote that the GOP gathering was so shambolic that it might not give Donald Trump the “bounce” he needed.
