Scripting history at the Democratic convention by becoming the first woman to accept the U.S. presidential nomination of a major political party, Hillary Clinton said “when there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit” and criticised her Republican opponent Donald Trump over his policy promises.
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Trump, a 70-year-old NY businessman and former reality TV show host who has never held political office, responded in a Twitter post late on Thursday that “Hillary’s vision is a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety”.
“I get that some people just don’t know what to make of me”, she said.
All week, Trump has sought to tamp down the chants by stressing that his main goal is to simply beat Clinton in the November 8 presidential election.
One of Hillary Clinton’s biggest problems when she took to the stage last night was who had come before her: Barack Obama gave a belting speech at the Democrat convention, which Freddy Gray said was like a band playing back some of their old hits. “She said that what anxious President Kennedy during that very unsafe time was that a war might be started, not by big men with self-control and restraint, but by little men, the ones moved by fear and pride”, she said. But it does suggest that Ms Clinton can expect a bounce when a new slew of polls is published next week, and may calm the nerves of Democrats after Mr Trump took a significant lead last week with his own post-convention uptick, when several major national polls put him in front following the Republican confab in Cleveland.
“Now, you didn’t hear any of this from Donald Trump at his convention”. “So just ask yourself, you really think Donald Trump has the temperament to be commander-in-chief?” “I work very, very hard”.
Clinton closed her speech with a call to all Americans: “Let’s be stronger together, my fellow Americans”. “I thought she’d give me a big, fat, lovely congratulations”, he said.
Trump was also not impressed by John Allen’s speech on Thursday night and said that retired four-star Marine Corps general failed at fighting ISIS.
FORMER MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, New York City: There are times when I disagree with Hillary.
Introducing Clinton at a rally at Temple University in Philadelphia on Friday, Kaine said that the GOP is trying to frighten voters. “I had no idea”, he said.
Clinton went through a list of ideals, which could garner support from both sides of the aisle, and then made a simple proposition: If you agree with these things, I’m your candidate.
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But she said the nation must keep going until all 161 million women and girls in the country had the opportunities they deserve.
