Pro-Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) protests continued throughout the day outside of the Wells Fargo Center, sparked by the leaked internal DNC emails that showed favoritism toward Clinton during the primary process.
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Hillary Clinton celebrates among balloons after she accepted the nomination. In the average of national polls compiled by RealClearPolitics, Trump was three points behind Hillary Clinton before Cleveland; now he’s one point ahead.
In her first rally since accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton turned Donald Trump’s signature slogan on its head. Note that she called him by his first name, while we know he insists that even his close advisers and campaign staff call him “Mr. Trump”.
Marc Stanley, past president of the National Jewish Democratic Council, presents an award to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, July 28, 2016. And together with Hillary Clinton as our president – We. In the language of politics, this sort of testimonial is said to “humanize” her-as if her origin derived from a different species. He was drowned out by boos when he urged his supporters early in the day to enthusiastically back her – and by several minutes of sustained applause from cheering followers, some driven to tears, when he took the stage at night to make the case for Clinton.
On Tuesday, Democrats will settle down to the business of officially making Clinton the first female presidential nominee from a major party.
None too subtly, the music selections played before Clinton’s arrival included Sheryl Crow’s “Time to Put A Woman in the White House”. After Trump’s speech, 57% of people reacted very positively.
However, officials with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee made clear Monday they have no plans to spend money to save her. Top committee leaders told reporters that they do not spend money on safe Democratic seats, which hers is, because they need to save resources for states they are trying to save or flip. She noted Trump’s lack of any policy agenda with the requisite scorn; had great sport with his temperamental insuitability for the presidency (“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”); and joined other speakers from throughout the convention in mocking his ignorance of what he does not know.
Wasserman Schultz added: “This has been a hard week, no question about it”, but that “sometimes you just have to take one for the team, and that’s OK”. “What the grassroots has done for me – I’m so thankful”, he said. “When President Barack Obama said that no one has ever been more qualified to be president, not him, not Bill, not anyone”, Linda said.
“The truth is, through all these years of public service, the “service” part has always come easier to me than the “public” part”, she said.
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Clinton, accompanied by Kaine and their spouses, will use her bus trip to focus on economic opportunity, diversity and national security.
