Tim Kaine, D-Va., right, in the audience as he speaks during a rally at McGonigle Hall at Temple University in Philadelphia, Friday, July 29, 2016. Clinton and Kaine will begin a three day bus tour.
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OH and to a lesser extent Pennsylvania are among a handful of competitive states traditionally viewed as decisive in presidential elections, because they do not lean heavily Democratic or Republican. Bill Clinton did not speak at the event.
On Thursday, Reuters reported that the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives had also been breached, the second such incident after last weekend’s leak of DNC emails.
The appearance launched the three-day bus tour of OH and Pennsylvania, which like other Rust Belt states have been hit by the decline in USA manufacturing.
Donald Trump’s campaign is calling Democrat Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention “an insulting collection of clichés and recycled rhetoric”.
Giddy and sleep-deprived, Clinton, 68, said she’d been up late celebrating because “it was just hard to go to sleep!”
In her speech on Thursday, Clinton, 68, a former first lady and US senator, promised to make the United States a country that works for everyone if she is elected.
But it is states like OH and Pennsylvania – swing states with large swaths of blue-collar voters – that are expected to be top targets. That demographic has eluded Clinton and was unlikely to be swayed by a Democratic convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”, Clinton said of Trump.
Clinton’s challenge, instead, is to persuade people to accept the version of her forwarded at the convention. She did spend time criticizing her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
Throughout the short speeches, Trump was mentioned about 20 times. “I take deeply and with great humility the responsibility this campaign imposes on us”. 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.
Their goal is to turn out the coalition of minority, female and young voters that twice elected President Barack Obama while offsetting expected losses among the white male voters drawn to Trump’s message.
Hillary Clinton has 100 days to make her case to voters about why they should choose her in November.
But the same would be true of those who watched Trump’s speech online last week.
After the Democratic National Convention wrapped, the senator flew with some of his top staff back to his hometown in Burlington, Vermont, Friday morning. He described the Republican gathering as “dark and depressing”.
Kaine said “there’s still an very bad lot of fix work” to be done on the economy, particularly with regard to job creation. “But we are not afraid”, she said.
Manafort countered that Clinton’s push for undecided voters is confusing because she’s offering to be “an Obama third term” while simultaneously vowing to “make a change”.
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“I’m not telling you everything is peachy keen”.
