“That’s why when there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit”, the 68-year-old Clinton said in a speech that capped the four-day nominating convention. “Your campaign inspired millions of Americans”.
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Chelsea Clinton took the stage on Thursday night to introduce her mother, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, saying that the most important thing to her mother is time spent with family.
Clinton was not accepting the Democratic nomination at this convention, as she had hoped to do.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and former mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke on Wednesday, with Bloomberg giving an impassioned speech on why voters should elect Clinton in November despite being an independent and having political disagreements with the former secretary of state.
Carmen Morris, who was in attendance for the speech, told VOA that Clinton showed her dedication and commitment, and that Americans need to follow her calls to come together.
“Unless you want to be lied to, belittled and attacked for your beliefs, don’t watch Hillary’s DNC speech tonight”, Trump’s campaign said in a fundraising email.
“This election is not a choice between a Democrat and a Republican”.
During the introduction, Hillary Clinton shared a picture of herself, backstage, watching her daughter on an historic night.
Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Sen.
Clinton also took the opportunity to thank the supporters of Bernie Sanders. Many of his allies wore hats and shirts adorned with a single word: “Bernie”.
Ms. Clinton, over the course of her professional career, has been defined, for good or for ill – mostly ill – by just about everyone else anyway. “From the industrial Midwest to the Mississippi Delta to the Rio Grande Valley”.
There are some signs of discontent amid the celebration of Hillary Clinton’s acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Trump seemed to drop an unexpected gift in Clinton’s lap Wednesday when he urged Russian Federation to hack Clinton’s emails.
Doug Elmets is a Republican who Democrats can cheer for.
Chelsea Clinton said. She talked about how her mother would always fight for women, not only in America, but around the world.
“He’s trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. Give me a break, that’s a bunch of malarkey”, said Mr Biden as the crowd cheered in agreement. “In our vision, we will put America first”.
Some scattered Sanders delegates, unhappy over his defeat in the primary, had planned to leave the Well Fargo Arena in protest during Clinton’s speech on Thursday night.
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Indeed, the Democratic convention has been a visual ode those mantras: The first African-American president symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman. “You probably think this speech is about you, don’t you?”
