Earlier on Tuesday, delegates from South Dakota had given Clinton 15 votes, ensuring that she had more than the 2,383 votes needed to win the nomination. “She wants to break down all the barriers to opportunity”. In North Carolina on Tuesday, he told a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that, “our politicians have totally failed you”. She remembers seeing her mother go to vote for the first time after the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was ratified on August 18, 1920.
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Delegates chanted “Hillary, Hillary” as US Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland formally put forward Clinton’s name for the roll-call vote.
Joseph said she will not vote for Clinton in November but wasn’t sure who she would vote for instead.
“The idea that I’m going to be here when the first woman president is nominated is overwhelming”, she said.
It was a striking parallel to the role Clinton played eight years ago when she stepped to the microphone on the convention floor in Denver in support of her former rival, Barack Obama.
The nomination was seconded by Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon.
His wife is expected to accept the nomination during an acceptance speech Thursday. Frustration boiled over as his delegates jeered speakers who mentioned Clinton.
The ex-president told the Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia that Hillary Clinton was “a natural leader” with an in-built sense of responsibility.
“We’ve got to show a little class and let them be frustrated for a while”. Some Sanders supporters tried to occupy a media work area in protest, with others sitting in a circle outside with black tape on their mouths. “I saw Hillary Clinton in an interview and they asked her why should we elect you president and her answer was ‘Well, because I am a woman, ‘ ” said Derel Stroud, a Sanders supporter.
After serving as her former rival’s Secretary of State, Clinton began her long-planned second White House run as the prohibitive favorite previous year. Clinton had already amassed the majority of delegates in the count, but Sanders’ motion made it official.
Clinton, who promises to tackle income inequality and rein in Wall Street if she becomes president, is eager to portray Trump, a businessman and former reality TV show host, as too unstable to sit in the Oval Office.
An Oregon delegate said, “Oregon, feeling the bern, casts 38 votes for Senator Bernie Sanders”. And beginning in 2009, she served four years as secretary of state during the Obama administration.
“She didn’t get angry or disillusioned”.
“Hillary will make us stronger together because she spent a lifetime doing it”, Bill Clinton said. “As a true public servant Hillary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments”.
Approached by reporters, Lytle said his beef with Clinton lies is rooted in what he sees a less than open nominating process.
Democrats turned to Hollywood stars for the attacks on Donald Trump and mothers of slain African-American children to back Hillary Clinton on the second night of the party’s convention Tuesday.
MI delegate Charles Niswander, 28, said he and other Sanders delegates would never line up behind Clinton. She believes the “Bernie or Bust” proponents should follow suit.
Trump cheered the disruptions from the campaign trail.
Clinton has been a fixture in American politics for more than 25 years.
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She ran for president and lost the Democratic nomination to President Obama in 2008.
