“Jobs in manufacturing, clean energy, technology and innovation, small business, and infrastructure”, she added. While never welcome, that prospect has become truly disconcerting to them with Trump’s takeover of the GOP.
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Through four nights of polished convention pageantry, Democratic heavyweights told a different story about Clinton. “So let me tell you”, Ms. Clinton said before she went on to explain her life, struggles and successes. But this dynamic can’t hold forever.
Democrats were the party of Obama and liberal realism.
Trump scrambled this debate entirely.
Ohio state Rep. Alicia Reece, president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus and a Clinton delegate, said she heard some complaints when a few people booed Michelle Obama when she mentioned Clinton’s name Monday night.
By the end of the convention, most Sanders delegates either said they would vote for Clinton or were willing to consider it. If it was at times tedious it also underscored her willingness to get into the trenches, certainly a contrast with the know-nothing mogul. We are trying to win Democratic primaries.
The same was true of Clinton’s speech.
See Clinton’s full speech, in which the Democratic nominee opens up about her upbringing, touts her accomplishments, and delves into her plans for economic, education, and immigration reform, in the video above. Recall that it was Hillary Clinton who said that every victim of sexual assault has the right to be believed. If You’re A Clinton Foundation Donor (Goldman Sachs Edition)” to “Hillary’s With Us …
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”.
Americans did not say, “I alone can fix it”, but “we’ll fix it together”, she said.
Today she described a country on edge, torn by division, threatened from terrorism and economically insecure and the choice ahead as this: “We have to decide whether we’re going to work together, so we can all rise together”.
“Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son the best of America”. The whole point was to paint a picture of steady leadership versus risky unpredictability.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t really talk about foreign policy at the DNC.
This new Democratic message is actually the polar opposite of their message in 2008. It was the America Donald Trump left out of his dark vision of America.
That might be a smart approach, electorally speaking. But Clinton is at least aware of one thing: there will always be those voters who just don’t know what to do with her. When he’s gotten a tough question from a reporter.
Clinton occupies a unique place in history as the only person to have both parents run for president, and she has been particularly active in this campaign. “They totally transformed the Democratic Party in ways that we’re still paying for”, he said. I wanted to join them but, remembering the old journalists’ ethic of “no cheering in the press gallery”, I restrained myself. But Team Clinton appears to have decided that the earlier testimonials to her constancy in pursuing her many policy goals, and her devotion to the interests of families and children, did as much to restore her credibility as any assertions she could make about the murky details of her email protocols or the events at Benghazi.
The previous three days of the convention did a brilliant job setting her up for just that. Democrats say that now it is America’s turn for a female leader. We saw a little of that on display during this convention: The Bernie die-hards interrupted some of the more hawkish speakers with chants of “no more war!”. They were drowned out by Clinton supporters yelling, “USA!” – which works in a convention, but you can’t exactly shout down demonstrators from the White House. The “Bernie or Bust” movement visibly and vocally resisted Clinton, but by Thursday night, a coordinated effort by the two campaigns masked images and cries of dissent, for the most part.
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Creating the appearance of a united Democratic Party at the Philadelphia convention was another imperative.
