Some polls have since indicated he is leading Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.
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Also notable by his absence in the convention hall in Quicken Loans Arena was Ohio’s Republican governor, John Kasich, who not only refused to welcome his fellow Republicans to his state, but also snubbed Trump by not attending his acceptance of the party’s presidential nomination.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Anything is possible. “I know Hillary”, he said, extolling her passion for reducing college costs and expanding health care and declaring that when she is elected, she will bring change simply because of who she is.
“But the thing that bothers me is, I don’t see any attempt for him to go out and to get people who really know on the Republican side to advise him”, Biden said.
“He’s always come across as just one of us”, she added. “And there are better speech-makers”, he said. Everyone knows she is tough.
It’s hard to know what would’ve seemed more unlikely to Barack Obama when he first addressed the Democratic convention in 2004: that 12 years later he would be speaking to delegates as a two-term president or that he would be imploring American voters in 2016 not to elect Donald Trump to succeed him.
This is something Bernie Sanders wants, but some of his supporters do not. And rather than one-to-one conversations, Twitter and Facebook allow voters to speak to many people at the same.
Obama tells NBC’s “Today Show” that Trump “doesn’t seem to have any plans or policies or proposals or specific solutions”.
“Fifty-six percent is very high in this day and age”, said David Axelrod, Obama’s former senior adviser and current CNN senior political analyst.
“We own the finish line, and don’t you forget it”. “And it’s a popular president”. I know Hillary. Hillary understands. He’s still vice president, of course, and he’s going to be out on the campaign trail for the next few months campaigning for Hillary Clinton, but this is the big wind down for Biden.
The party is celebrating a historic night, as Clinton became the first woman to capture the party’s nomination for president.
The first lady’s speech on Monday drew instant praise for its unifying message and heartfelt description of life in the White House.
The president made the comments in a taped interview aired Wednesday.
In a remarkable series of broadsides leveled at Clinton’s opponent, Obama rebuked Trump and the dire picture painted of the country by the GOP presidential nominee.
The resentment has only amplified during this year’s campaign.
Asked about Trump’s remarks that he alone could fix the country’s problems, Obama said: “That’s not how our founders designed our system”.
“And now, I’m ready to pass the baton”, he said, shortly before Clinton joined him on stage.
Trump complained anew that Clinton had deleted roughly 33,000 emails from her private server before turning over the rest to the Obama administration.
In January, Biden told an NBC affiliate in CT that “every day” he regretted not running for president. He’s gone back and forth with members of his speechwriting team, offering handwritten revisions to drafts of the address.
“I look at someone who is a statesman”. “I don’t think it’s naive to talk to Republicans. And I know just how to do it”.
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The speech, officials say, will act as a bookend for an increasingly reflective commander in chief.
