An unexpectedly emotional moment grasped the Democratic convention hall Tuesday afternoon as delegates cast their votes for the party’s presidential nomination.
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“He may mention something about it, but he’s not really going to go into details about it and hold the government responsible for killing innocent people”, she said in the same interview.
Although the outcome was virtually a foregone conclusion, the state-by-state vote saw rowdy displays on the convention floor. Each state had a chance to voice its support for Clinton while praising Bernie Sanders, with South Dakota putting Clinton over the edge. Several wept and embraced.
The former U.S. secretary of state and first lady put an electrifying cap on the Democratic convention’s second night, speaking by satellite video and offering this message to any little girls who might have stayed up to see the ground-breaking moment on Tuesday night: “I may become the first woman president, but one of you is next”.
Delegates thrust placards in the air, forming a mosaic of “H’s” across the arena. Carter said he does not believe Clinton actually won the Democratic nomination.
The nomination was seconded by Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon.
The Clinton camp is now looking to unite the party’s factions.
At Trump’s convention last week, Clinton was the target of blistering criticism of her character and judgment, a sharp contrast to the warm and passionate woman described by her husband.
“We have to show a little class and let them be frustrated for a while”, Biden told CNN. “I move that all votes, all votes cast by delegates, be reflected in the official record”, Sanders said.
The crowd consisted of an assortment of protesters espousing a variety of causes, but mostly Sanders supporters and other Clinton foes on the left. “[But] I feel letting either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton become president is a worst-case scenario”.
As Scully spoke, a passer-by called out: “That’s a vote for Trump!”
“There are forces in America that want to take us back”.
Asked after the event whether Sanders considers himself a Democrat or an independent, a campaign aide said, “He ran for president as a Democrat but was elected to a six-year term in the Senate as an independent”.
Sanders, who was booed during a California delegation breakfast Tuesday, is encouraging his backers to think of what a Trump presidency would look like.
Democrats are hoping that Tuesday will get off to a better start than the opening day of the convention, which included problems getting Sen.
1996: Clinton accepts another nomination for president.
But Clinton also will have the unstated mission of mending fences with Sanders’ army of vocal young activists.
She was reluctant to accept Obama’s offer for position of secretary of state because she liked being a NY senator so much.
But despite Sanders calling on his flock to get behind Clinton, his self-styled “political revolution” appears to have transformed into a revolt.
However, her historic victory was overshadowed by the fallout of damaging leakage of internal emails revealing backroom bias against Clinton’s rival Bernie Sanders during bitter primaries.
Tace Geesaman, a Nevada delegate and single mom, walked out after Sanders’s plea feeling betrayed. But unlike the GOP convention in Cleveland, Democratic speakers made a concerted effort to mix the criticism with upbeat remarks about the nation and their party.
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