U.S. President Barack Obama offered a forceful endorsement of Hillary Clinton Wednesday, painting her as a successor uniquely qualified to carry on his legacy at home and overseas.
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Hillary Clinton capped a four-day convention celebration with a plea for national unity and tolerance.
Clinton didn’t acknowledged any of the jeers or yelling.
The former first daughter says she’s had a “front-row seat” to watch how Hillary Clinton serves.
Many delegates – Sanders and Clinton supporters alike – referred to their mothers or daughters or other women in their lives when talking about Clinton.
“What an incredible honor you have given me”, she said. She said she’s not yet sure if she will vote at all in November.
“When there are no ceilings”, she declared, “the sky’s the limit”.
Clinton said if Americans are serious about keeping the country safe, they can’t afford to have a president who’s in the pocket of the gun lobby. A separate pre-convention controversy over hacked Democratic Party emails showing favoritism for Clinton in the primary threatens to deepen the perception that Clinton prefers to play by her own rules.
“She is owned by Wall Street!” he said.
“Both groups have strong feelings about what’s going on”, she said. He slammed the former secretary of state as an ineffectual defender against terrorism and blasted her judgment. “Donald Trump can’t even handle the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign”, she told the crowd.
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons”, she said.
“It’s a culmination of her work over a lifetime”, said campaign manager Robby Mook. He’d been a businessman, he said, and he could testify that what America needed was “a problem solver, not a bomb thrower”.
But right now, she said, “an terrible lot of people feel there is less and less respect for the work they do”.
“He’s taken the Republican Party a long way… from “Morning in America” to ‘Midnight in America, ‘ ” Clinton said, in one of a number of sharp digs at Trump.
That’s a knock on Trump.
After months of complaints from Trump and Vermont Sen. The Clinton camp completely miscalculated the staying power of her email fiasco.
“For the struggling, the striving and the successful”. “In fact, it doesn’t depend on any one person”.
As this election of two historically disliked candidates continues, let’s see how Clinton handles this controversy.
“He never tells you how he’s going to do any of the things he says he’s going to do”, Kaine planned to say.
– Vice President Joe Biden will also make an appearance. “Our country needs your ideas, energy and passion”.
Meanwhile, throughout the convention, Democrats have implicitly argued that it is they who love America before – because, unlike Trump, they recognize it is already great.
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event on July 28, 2016 in Davenport, Iowa. I knew? everybody knew? that this was not a fair deal.
“We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against”.
Later she took issue with Trump’s comments about the military and his supposed superior knowledge about ISIS. “We have to start listening to each other”.
To “reject cynicism, reject fear, to summon what’s best in us”. “I see people working hard and starting businesses; people teaching kids and serving our country”.
Trump is also targeting OH and Pennsylvania as states where he can make headway with blue-collar white men. It was a notable moment during a speech that went on to be less about partisan politics and more about fostering the values that America was founded upon. “Whereas Trump is spending virtually all of his time with these negative attacks, Clinton is doing what a consultant would say, mixing up the aspirational – “the world will be better” – with the attacks on Trump’s fitness for the presidency”.
The Democratic nominee said she’ll fight to overhaul the immigration system. And now that he has lost the nomination battle, she doesn’t have as much enthusiasm for voting this fall.
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In an incendiary press conference, Trump launched a pre-emptive attack against Obama, calling him “the most ignorant president in our history”.
