Almost 41 percent of likely voters favour Clinton, 35 percent favour Trump, and 25 percent picked “other”, according to the new July 25-29 online poll of 1,043 likely voters, which overlapped with the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Their objective: using four nights of prime-time television to present Americans a sharp contrast to Donald Trump’s apocalyptic view of a decaying nation besieged by enemies, immigrants and violent criminals. What’s he going to say?
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Reuters on Friday reported that the computer network used by Clinton’s campaign, which is based in Brooklyn, had been hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, citing people familiar with the matter.
And on MSNBC, Chris Matthews summed up both Clinton’s speech and the convention itself, zeroing in on her line, “America is great because America is good”.
Clinton and Trump are set for an election battle widely considered to be a tight race when voters head to the polls in November.
As recently as three days ago, I doubted she would do it.
“I think it was her strongest soundbite to date on that”, said D’Angora. She also tried to paint herself as the one candidate who can unite America. “I’m a 38-year member of the Democrat Party”, Susan Sullivan, another California Sanders supporter, told TheDC at a DNC Convention watch party in downtown Philadelphia.
This may have been the best speech that Hillary has ever given. No. Was it an effective speech in moving the ball forward?
But there’s one thing on which they all can agree: No matter who becomes the 45th president, this is a watershed moment for women in America. Those numbers have been heading south for a lot longer than the 2016 presidential election cycle. She’s been a major player in the nation’s politics for 24 years. A close runner up for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Hillary Clinton shared her vision of what American would look like with her as president. Even many of Bill Clinton’s speeches were derided as “laundry lists”, but he destroyed Bob Dole in 1996 by showing, again and again, that Dole’s proposals were fanciful and risky while his would help ordinary people in tangible ways. Clinton knows that the road to the White House must include independents and Republicans, and that Donald Trump’s candidacy has opened that possibility. And that expectation was borne out by her remarks. One of them read “Hillary will never reform Wall Street”. The message is aimed at voters in western Pennsylvania and eastern and central OH, where Trump is seeking to sway blue-collar Democrats. “For this time, Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the threats we face”. From Baghdad and Kabul, to Nice and Paris and Brussels, to San Bernardino and Orlando, we’re dealing with determined enemies that must be defeated. “No wonder people are anxious and looking for reassurance”. “Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?” I understand and share your fears of violence, of terrorism, of a world that so often seems to be spinning out of control. “But we are not afraid”, she said.
The former USA secretary of state and first lady said the slogan “stronger together” that has been featured in her campaign was a guiding principle for the country, helping to define a future with a healthy economy “for everyone, not just those at the top”.
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But Charles Krauthammer is sceptical, feeling Mrs Clinton has found “no counter” to Donald Trump’s ability to capture the sense of “economic, social and spiritual disintegration of those left behind by globalisation and economic transformation”.
