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 US manufacturing.
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With husband and former President Bill Clinton’s arm around her shoulder, Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine climbed aboard a big blue bus with the campaign slogan “Stronger Together” painted on the side. “I’m starting to agree with you”.
Hillary Clinton acknowledges the crowd at the end on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 28, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “And this country, if they choose her, this country will not be in good shape”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gets off her campaign bus as she arrives for a rally at K’NEX, a toy company in Hatfield, Pa., July 29, 2016. Democrats hammered home those themes this week with an array of politicians, celebrities, gun-violence victims, law enforcement officers and activists of all races and sexual orientation.
Their goal is to turn out the coalition of minority, female and young voters that twice elected Barack Obama while offsetting expected losses among the white men drawn to Trump’s message.
“I think I have a great temperament, I have a temperament where I know how to win”, Trump said.
With the general election in full swing, Clinton must find a way to fix that.
The start of the Democratic convention was overshadowed by the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who quit over leaked emails showing party officials favored Clinton over her primary rival Bernie Sanders, a USA senator of Vermont.
Lacking Obama’s sweeping rhetoric or the “feel-your-pain” sensitivity of her husband, Clinton leaned into her wonky image, saying: “I sweat the details of policy”.
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”.
Yet resentments lingered throughout the convention, with a handful of attendees heckling during her address. MSNBC was second with 5.27 million, followed by NBC (4.52 million), ABC (3.86 million), CBS (3.65 million) and Fox News (3.03 million).
Not long after, the intrusion into a system used by the Clinton campaign came to light, first reported by Reuters.
On the other hand, for a candidate that loves to boast about polling and ratings data as much as Donald Trump does, this must be heartening – even if it may mean nothing at all.
Speaker after speaker cast Mr Trump as intolerant, inexperienced and unsafe, including the Pakistan-born immigrant father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, who held up a copy of the Constitution and insisted that Mr Trump “has sacrificed nothing”. “This year, I will vote for a Democrat for the first time”.
With Clinton, “our global relations will not be reduced to a business transaction”, Allen said.
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Trump dismissed such attacks as “a lot of lies” during a campaign rally earlier Thursday in Davenport, Iowa, and criticized the Democrats for not talking about terrorism or laying out a plan to aid the nation’s economy.
