Her convention has made little mention of the economic insecurity and anxiety that has, in part, fueled Trump’s rise with white, working-class voters. Also there is NY, which Hillary Clinton represented as a senator from 2001 until 2009; Virginia, home of vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine; and Pennsylvania, host of the DNC.
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But throughout the week, Arkansans spoke about what a Clinton victory would mean for the nation.
Chelsea Clinton spoke two days after her father, former President Bill Clinton, addressed delegates in what was as much love story as political speech. In a move created to bring Hillary’s image full-circle, “humanize” her, and offer intimate glimpses into her home life, Bill explained that despite a long and lustrous career that had led President Obama to call her “the most qualified candidate” to ever seek the presidency, it was her maternal duty to Chelsea that mattered most. Women’s clubs were common at the time, but mostly just for socialization.
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton celebrate on the last day of the Democratic National Convention.
“There were no Facebook pages, no Instagram pages, no cameras around, and this Caucasian woman was putting her life on the line to travel down to Houston, Texas, to fight for voting rights”, she said. Having a strong and tenacious and brilliant woman like Hillary Clinton head the government will clear the path – both the mental path and the actual path – for many younger women to follow. I thought racism is bad.
Still, while men and women cite the economy as a top reason to go to the polls, Dittmar said, she acknowledged there are some general truths about voter behavior.
“I am proud not just because we have nominated a woman, but because we have nominated this woman”, added Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman.
The anti-Muslim rhetoric that has taken center stage since the start of the presidential campaign, led by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, and others, is becoming more pervasive every day.
Clinton will need a similarly high turnout by black voters to win. “It was a great speech, it was a unifying speech”, she said. “She became, as she often said, our family’s designated worrier-born with an extra responsibility gene”. I was very happy to have her here.
Women at the Democratic convention said the election represents an opportunity to make leaps on a range of issues that affect them.
“Richland County is a hard county to win, but we will do all we can to assist her in winning the county”, Mudra said.
She nodded when told of Republican women who support Trump and are afraid for their children.
I’ve been coming to national conventions for 25 years.
Workplace culture has changed, said McCausland, now a lawyer and member of the Forum of Executive Women, a group of Philadelphia-area business leaders. She’s more of a policy wonk, and this isn’t a get-in-the-weeds moment.
The New York Times featured Clinton’s supporters. The self-described socialist said she’s not sure whether she can get behind Clinton.
Former President Bill Clinton speaks Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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In the notoriously stodgy Senate, Clinton kept an exceptionally low public profile, worked diligently, and buttered up fellow lawmakers by learning how they take their coffee and once challenging Sen.
