Hillary Rodham Clinton took to the stage with an impassioned speech to formally accept her party’s presidential nomination and close out the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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In the biggest speech of her quarter-century in politics, Mrs Clinton on Thursday accepted the Democratic presidential nomination for the Nov 8 election with a promise to make the United States a country that worked for everyone.
When it comes to TV viewership, the four-day event here is apparently outdrawing last week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said.
“No matter how much people try to knock her down, she never ever quits”, Obama said. “That’s what is so incredible and how lucky I feel to have witnessed that history tonight and over the last eight years”.
Clinton was likely to offer a similarly upbeat message. “He’s forgetting every last one of us…we say, we’ll fix it together”.
“It takes a president who believes not only in the potential of his own child, but of all children; who believes not only in the strength of his own family, but of the American family”, the first lady said.
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Mr Trump has portrayed the country as being under siege from illegal immigrants, crime and terrorism and as losing influence in the world. “Instead, we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good job, will get one”. But you have 33,000 e-mails deleted, and the real problem is what was said on those emails from the Democratic National Committee.
“Don’t boo”, Obama said. “This is a historic moment tonight. and she is going to give an incredible speech”. “She is criticized for her laugh”, Frame said Thursday.
“It was so awesome”.
“Hello everyone. I’m Michael Jordan and I’m here with Hillary”. “The American public has an image in their head of what a politician should look like – it’s a white man in a suit”.
Trump, who has never held public office, offered his critics fresh lines of attack on Wednesday, urging Russian Federation to find and release tens of thousands of emails that Clinton did not hand over to U.S. officials as part of a probe into her use of a private email system while she was secretary of state.
Chelsea Clinton says her mom will pause “for a few minutes of blowing kisses and reading ‘Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo”‘.
“He brought in no uncertain terms what he thought a Trump presidency would be like”.
Trump quickly confirmed he was, before deflecting: “Of course I’m being sarcastic”.
Ashford Hughes, an aide in Nashville Mayor Megan Barry’s office and Clinton delegate, said “it was an exciting speech – he talked about what we have done”.
About the audacity of hope, he said to America: “I ask you to carry her the same way you carried me”. “That we are moving in a progressive manner”.
“I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves”.
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“That is not the America I know”, he said.”The America I know is full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity”.
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Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House was an announcement eight years in the waiting.
