She made a promise in her speech that she wouldn’t back down from bullies like Trump who stand in her path to success.
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Katie White, 18, of San Antonio, Texas, said she was looking forward to the speech: “I think Ivanka did a lot to help Donald Trump”.
“Time and again you’ve picked me up, and I hope sometimes I’ve picked you up too”.
In the biggest speech of her more than 25-year-old career in the public eye, Clinton, 68, cast herself as a steady leader at a “moment of reckoning” for the country, and contrasted her character with what she described as Trump’s unsafe and volatile temperament. But criticism of a man less popular even than she is not Clinton’s chief need for the next three and a half months.
Clinton portrayed Trump as a threat to the country, saying “a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”. “When any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone”, said Clinton.
Donald Trump pulled off the upset – at least in television popularity.
While the GOP candidate rattled off a list of the multifarious problems he believes the country faces – from surging crime to undocumented immigrants to Islamic extremism – Clinton offered one: Trump. The former secretary of state reached out to her former party opponent Bernie Sanders disappointed voters and said, “I want to thank Bernie Sanders”.
“Hillary Clinton talks about unity, about E Pluribus Unum, but her globalist agenda denies American citizens the protections to which they are all entitled – tearing us apart”.
Referring to her nomination as the first woman running for President from a major United States party, she said: “When all the ceilings are broken through, the sky’s the limit”.
A Clinton presidency would be negative for numerous least empowered in global society, just as Trump would be bad for American minorities. “That’s the America I know”, he said.
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“It’s a culmination of her work over a lifetime”, said campaign manager Robby Mook. They both garner high “unpopularity” ratings. She touched on foreign policy, police brutality, women’s rights, gun control, education, the economy, and more outlining a way forward on a litany of issues. She has been plagued by concerns about her trustworthiness, and had overcome a hard primary challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders, whose loyal delegates still had to be convinced about her candidacy. However, night four’s most striking moment was when Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, asked Donald Trump if he had ever read the Constitution, pulling a copy of the document from his jacket pocket.
