“More than a few times, I’ve had to pick myself up and get back in the game”. As Clinton herself said in her acceptance speech, “When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit”. Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again.
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Chelsea Clinton introduced the Democratic Party nominee.
Their occasional chants of protest were drowned out by Clinton supporters chanting: “Hillary”. Our country needs your ideas, energy and passion.
Clinton will face Trump in the November presidential election.
“The entire convention itself, especially as it sort of came to the crescendo last night, represented all the problems that this country is facing”, said co-host Mika Brzezinski, along with “the hope, the optimism, the principles it’s based upon”.
For a woman caricatured as humorless, she showed a light touch, noting Trump doesn’t talk about his plans because he doesn’t have any while, “In case you haven’t noticed, I love to talk about mine”. “And if you give me the chance, that’s what I’ll do as President”, Clinton said.
Clinton quoted President Franklin D. Roosevelt last night when she said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.
Clinton is playing up economic opportunity, diversity and national security. 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.
Rick Neuhoff, also from Florida, said his favorite was President Obama’s. We say: “We’ll fix it together”.
The evening sounded at times more like a traditional Republican convention than a Democratic one.
Trump, a 70-year-old NY businessman who has never held political office, is running just ahead of Clinton in a RealClearPolitics average of recent national opinion polls. He described the Republican gathering as “dark and depressing”. He said job creation would be the top priority if Ms Clinton wins the White House.
Clinton also said the USA stands by its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies against any threat, including from Russian Federation.
“It’s true”, she said.
Earlier in the week, the gathering featured former Democratic Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, as well as Barack Obama, who defeated Clinton in the Democratic nominating contest in 2008 and then brought her into his administration as secretary of state.
Clinton, on the other hand, could be reaching out to voters who feel excluded by the way Trump has spoken about Muslims, Latinos and other groups. Bernie Sanders, her primary season rival, saying, “I’ve heard you. Your cause is our cause”.
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Presidential nominees can often expect an immediate rise in the polls, called a post-convention bounce, when the acceptance speeches, balloons, and parade of personalities are still fresh in voters’ minds.
