And so do a vast number of establishment Republicans who were hoping to extend their outreach to a more diverse electorate, such as African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and other minorities. She leaned on her Methodist faith and the iconography of martial patriotism to seamlessly marry a progressive agenda with small-c conservative values.
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Yet resentments lingered throughout the convention, with a handful of attendees heckling during her address.
A planned mass walkout of Sanders delegates never seemed to materialize, though a few dozen did leave and some protesters were removed from the venue.
They wore neon yellow shirts to increase their visibility on camera. Clinton will get his vote come November though, because he doesn’t want Republican candidate Donald Trump to become president.
Trump also said during the Friday campaign rally that he was now going to be harsher in his approach to Clinton.
“Excluded from Hillary Clinton’s America are the suffering people living in our inner cities, or the victims of open borders and drug cartels, or the people who’ve lost their jobs because of the Clintons’ trade deals, or any hardworking person who doesn’t have enough money to get a seat at Hillary Clinton’s table”.
With chants of “Hell no DNC, we won’t vote for Hillary” and “Lock her up”, the protesters made it clear they would not be casting their votes for Hillary Clinton.
She then said that a man who you can bait with a tweet should be nowhere near the nuclear codes.
Chelsea Clinton, the former and potentially future first daughter, introduced her mother with a deeply personal portrait, recalling notes left for her during out-of-town trips and visits to dinosaur museums. “I wouldn’t say he’s exciting and I don’t think too many people have heard of him, so we have to learn who he is”. “My job titles only tell you what I’ve done”. I’m not telling you everything is peachy keen.
“I’ve been trying to make sense of it, but violence is not the answer”, Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez said Thursday.
Even with the gulfs between Clinton and Trump on issues ranging from immigration to guns to climate change, temperament and character are at the forefront of this unusual presidential campaign between two unusually unpopular candidates. “Well, he could start by making things in America again”, she said. Trump had termed as an “innocent mistake” the plagiarism surrounding his wife’s speech and rejected the resignation by the speech-writer. Clinton laid the foundation tonight on what will be a long process. Another distraction arose, however, as her aides acknowledged that a hacking attack that exposed Democratic Party emails also reached into a computer system used by her own campaign. “We’ve made a lot of progress and we’re ready for this final 100 days until election day”, said Senator Cory Booker. Sean Hannity was brought in for analysis immediately after the convention closed each night.
Another one complained that there “there’s nothing Democratic about this!”
Donald Trump enjoyed a bump in the polls immediately following the Republican National Convention (RNC) last week.
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Promising Americans a steady hand, Hillary Clinton cast herself Thursday night as a unifier for divided times, an experienced leader steeled for a volatile world.
