Clinton’s reference tonight was brief, but she promised, “We will defend all our rights – civil rights, human rights, and voting rights, women’s rights and workers’ rights, LGBT rights and the rights of people with disabilities. Donald Trump’s not offering real change”.
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Trump’s national security stumbles in questioning US support for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies and urging Russian Federation to meddle in the race provides a general-election opening for Clinton and other Democrats to reach out to Republicans.
Clinton portrayed Trump as a threat to the nation, saying “a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.
Hillary Clinton hit hard against Donald Trump in her historic acceptance speech as the first woman to be nominated for president by a major US party. And after the Republican National Convention last week, Clinton’s unpopularity for the first time matched Trump’s.
“I get it that some people just don’t know what to make of me so let me tell you”, she said. But her primary focus was persuading Americans to not be seduced by Trump’s vague promises to restore economic security and fend off threats from overseas.
While the ratings for the fourth night have yet to be announced, Trump did appear anxious that Hillary Clinton’s final convention night on Thursday would top his own. “He’s taken the Republican Party a long way – from “Morning in America” to ‘Midnight in America'”.
“This is the moment, this is the opportunity for our future”, said retired Marine Gen. John R. Allen, a former commander in Afghanistan. Clinton and Trump are both the most unpopular major-party presidential nominees in recorded American history. There were persistent but scattered calls of “No more war”, but the crowd drowned them out with chants of “Hill-a-ry” and “U-S-A!” She could not have been more informal or charming. “I sweat the details of policy”, she said.
“I knew Ronald Reagan”.
After a convention speech aimed squarely at undercutting Trump, the first female presidential nominee heads off on a bus tour through two Rust Belt battlegrounds, OH and Pennsylvania.
Earlier in the evening, Trump accused her former rival in the democratic primary, Bernie Sanders, of “selling out”.
Through four nights of polished convention pageantry, Democratic heavyweights told a different story about Clinton. And that was certainly the case in Clinton’s and Trump’s acceptance speeches. “It’s a daughter talking about her mother and the fact that she’s her greatest role model …”
Western Pennsylvania is an important region in the election.
Still, Hillary Clinton has always been more work horse than show horse, and her campaign has striven to overcome her deficits as a politician. “And if that’s going to mean that we’re going to lose some Republican votes, so be it”, Giuliani said. Trump’s Monday night attracted 23 million. “Donald Trump, you are no Ronald Reagan!”
I bring this all up because the goal of this speech was to let you into who the real Hillary Clinton is. “I will gladly lend you my copy”.
“Violence is not the answer”, Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez said. “Yelling, screaming and calling each other names is not going to do it”.
But above all else, it was Clinton’s night.
The stakes are high: A loss to Trump would not only end Clinton’s political career, it could be a devastating coda to her and her husband’s political legacy and leave the Democratic Party weaker than it has been in a generation.
A new poll out Thursday from Suffolk University had McGinty leading Toomey by seven percent.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke of his father, Mario, who served in the same office and gave an electrifying keynote speech at the Democratic convention in 1984, distilling Democratic values, according to his son.
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The ratings loss is likely to be a particularly sensitive topic for Trump.
