Clinton, 68, is the first woman to be nominated as a presidential candidate by a major political party? this breaking into the penultimate glass ceiling of the American political system.
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Grace McGregor Kramer, a Hillary-pledged delegate from Scranton, said Clinton hit it out of the park with her words and delivery. “Your cause is our cause”, she said.
On Thursday night, I photographed Clinton backstage as she changed another rule about the White House, accepting the Democratic presidential nomination to become the first female to be nominated as a major party candidate in the United States.
Anecdotal suggestions are that Jamaicans are rooting for Mrs Clinton, largely because of a perceived traditional preference for the Democrats but also a curiosity to see how a woman would do as leader of the world’s biggest economy and the free world.
Before she spoke, a number of Democratic heavyweights took the stage.
The former president spent quite a bit of time reminiscing about his courtship of Hillary and their life together, as well as how she was shaped by her upbringing.
“She is still the best darn changemaker I have ever known”, the man who could be America’s First Gentleman told the party flock -still boiling with skeptics. She said her primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States. From our inner cities to our small towns, Indian Country to Coal Country.
In her speech, she is expected to lay down her vision of America and what she meant to accomplish in the next four years if she is elected as the next president of the U.S. in the November general elections. From Baghdad and Kabul, to Nice and Paris and Brussels, to San Bernardino and Orlando, we’re dealing with determined enemies that must be defeated.
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“And so I say to you, if you love this country, you’re working hard, you’re paying taxes and you’re obeying the law and you’d like to become a citizen, you should choose immigration reform over somebody that wants to send you back”.
