It also reflects a Republican strategy to blame Obama – and, by extension, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton – for allowing the Islamic State group to expand.
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“It is alarming that Leon Panetta would, through his silence, excuse Hillary Clinton’s enablement of foreign espionage with her illegal email scheme and her corrupt decision to then destroy those emails and dissemble her “private” server to hide her crimes from the public and authorities”, Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said. Tim Kaine as the party’s candidate for vice president. “But I wasn’t looking for star power, I was looking for policy”.
Biden, who himself toyed with a presidential run previous year, plans to offer an economic argument for a Hillary Clinton presidency during his speech ahead of Obama on Wednesday night.
Michelle Obama is seen as having a unique and essential role to play for Clinton, key to keeping the Obama coalition of women, African Americans, Hispanics and young people engaged. Obama, in an interview Wednesday with NBC News, expressed concern about important global matters Trump “doesnt know and hasnt seemed to spend a lot of time trying to find out” about. “Basic knowledge about the world or what a nuclear triad is or where various countries are or the difference between Sunni and Shia in the Muslim world”.
Clinton, Obama’s bitter primary rival in the 2008 presidential elections, served as his Secretary of State in his first term from 2009-2012.
He also denied claims by Clinton’s failed challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. A joint campaign appearance in North Carolina earlier this month spurred stories about how at ease and comfortable the president looked back on the campaign trail, while also reinforcing Clinton’s reputation as robotic and stiff. “To at least $10, but it has to go up”. “And sometimes it takes more than one presidency”.
Trump got a boost in opinion polls from his nomination at the Republican convention in Cleveland last week.
This legacy started long before her first lady days.
“I think anybody who goes into campaigns not running scared can end up losing”, he added.
The president has said Russians appear to be behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails that toppled the party’s chief earlier this week.
White House aides say Obama has been working on the speech for several weeks and cleared much of his calendar this week to finish it.
Protests have been largely peaceful here, although generally larger than protests at the GOP convention last week in Cleveland.
On Tuesday night, Democrats reveled in history being made.
Inside, it was all about the Clintons.
The post is described as being from the New Mexico delegation and urges delegates to spread the word.
“What an incredible honor you have given me”, Hillary Clinton said.
“That was a black woman up there speaking and, myself being a black woman, I just felt so honored”, said Tonia McMillian, who came here to help organize an SEIU event.
She was lauded throughout the evening by passionate supporters whose lives she has influenced.
“At that moment, I realized that our time in the White House would form the foundation for who they would become, and how we managed this experience could truly make or break them”, she said.
Her speech went viral, prompting hashtags like #MichelleforPresident to trend on Twitter.
Clinton’s base-boosting strategy has some Democrats anxious that she is ceding too much ground to her opponent. She always wants to move the ball forward.
SCRANTON, Pa. -Seeking to counter the impact of the Democratic convention, Donald Trump on Wednesday all but invited Russian Federation to hack Hillary Clinton and said he would “love to see” private emails from the former secretary of State, his election opponent. I thought she did a very good job. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”.
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After a tumultuous convention opening which saw Sanders and Clinton supporters trade jeers and chants, cheers erupted as Clinton passed the 2,382-delegate threshold needed for the nomination, setting up a showdown with Republican Donald Trump in November. “That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts”. “This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue”.
