Barack Obama delivered a rousing speech in support of White House hopeful Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention yesterday.
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“I can’t think of an election that is more important, certainly in my lifetime”, Clinton told supporters at the rally in Philadelphia on Friday.
“I get it that some people just don’t know what to make of me”, Clinton said in accepting the nomination.
Trump, of course, went after Clinton, blasting her for delivering a speech that went on too long (though it was almost 20 minutes shorter than the one he had delivered just a week before).
They stopped in the state capital of Harrisburg before heading to the industrial cities of Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio – places where she said people “are making things”. Meanwhile, the Democrats actually had slightly more viewers for the first night of its convention than it did for the nominee’s speech, typically the highest-rated night of convention coverage.
“Please explain to me what part of America First leads him to make Trump ties in China, not Colorado”. That demographic has eluded Clinton and was unlikely to be swayed by a Democratic convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity. “Millions!” Trump said Friday during a campaign appearance in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “Same old stuff, our country needs change!” he wrote.
After a week which featured daily discord in the party, particularly between stolid Bernie Sanders supporters and others who felt disenfranchised, Democrats made another attempt at unity while also trying to contrast Donald Trump’s speech at the RNC, with the night’s anthem, “Stronger Together”.
“I stayed up really late last night”.
During a speech marked by boisterous applause she accepted the nomination “with humility, determination and boundless confidence in America’s promise” as the convention hall erupted in a jubilant outpouring.
“Tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me. I take deeply and with great humility the responsibility this campaign imposes on us”.
Clinton faces a major trust deficit among a U.S. public that has known her for the past quarter century. Democrats hammered home those themes this week with an array of politicians, celebrities, gun-violence victims, law enforcement officers and activists of all sexual preferences and races.
She said her family built a better life and a better future for their children, using whatever tools they had and “whatever God gave them”. Hillary Clinton hit a new low in her honest and trustworthy score in the CNN poll, with nearly seven in 10 Americans saying they believe she is not honest and trustworthy. But two polls were released shortly after the Republican convention last week.
The two women said the competing sides had been largely cordial to one another ahead of Clinton’s speech Thursday night.
Trump may have pulled off a narrow victory over Clinton.
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The convention provided hours of glowing tributes to Clinton, including deeply personal testimonials from her husband, daughter Chelsea Clinton and Obama. Those emails revealed that key party members favoured Clinton over Sanders as the presidential nominee and appeared to consider ways to discredit the Vermont senator during the primaries. “Your cause is our cause”. Earlier in the day, Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin spoke, as did the HRC’s national press secretary, Sarah McBride, who became the first openly transgender person to address a national political convention of either major party. Khizr Khan, a Muslim who immigrated to the US from the United Arab Emirates, talked about his son Humayun, an American soldier who was killed by a auto bomb in Iraq.
