Fresh off a spirited convention, Hillary Clinton told prospective voters Friday they face a “stark choice” in November and pressed ahead with the scalding rhetoric against her Republican rival that marked numerous speeches in Philadelphia.
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“I’m taking the gloves off”, Trump said, accusing Hillary of telling “lies” on Thursday during her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia. He is betting that the perils of today’s world will blind us to its unlimited promise.
“She has laid out very clearly a set of strategies from the education strategies I talked about earlier to important strategies to make sure that those who are working are treated fairly in their benefits and their wages and also to investments to grow the economy, whether those be investments in innovation and research or investments in infrastructure to build the society that we want”, he said. “We have to decide whether we all will work together so we all can rise together”.
Trump also did the GOP establishment no favors this week when he went off script and urged Russian hackers to find and release about 33,000 emails that were deleted from Clinton’s private server from when she was secretary of State.
Joined on the bus tour by her husband, Bill Clinton, running mate Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, Clinton stopped at a toy and plastics manufacturer in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, where she and Kaine cast Trump as a con artist out for his own gain.
Sanders’ delegates from NY were either resigned to back Clinton, were uncertain or simply said they would not actively work to oppose her. The theme of her campaign is “Stronger Together” and much of her speech carried that message, which she described as a guiding principle for the country.
Hillary Clinton capped a four-day convention celebration with a plea for national unity and tolerance. Bernie Sanders, her primary season rival, saying, “I’ve heard you”.
Hillary Clinton has accepted the nomination for President of the United States. “Our Founders”, Clinton said, “embraced the enduring truth that we are stronger together”. That demographic has eluded Clinton and was unlikely to be swayed by a Democratic convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity.
But she spent considerable energy berating her November election rival, saying no Americans should trust a candidate who pledges that “I alone can fix it”, as Trump said last week in Cleveland.
“I propose a different vision for America, one where we can break up Washington’s rigged system and empower all Americans to achieve their dreams”, Trump said. But Americans we spoke to sure have their minds made up.
At one point, as a group of veterans endorsed Clinton from the podium, some California delegates chanted “no more wars!” and “peace, not war!”
The speech was “an insulting collection of clichés and recycled rhetoric”, the campaign said in a statement after the speech. What’s more, some influential Republican voices were left with concerns that Democrats had stolen their message as the party of American exceptionalism.
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Joking that “I get it that some people just don’t know what to make of me”, Clinton recounted experiences that included her health care fights of the 1990s and the 2011 military raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis.
