After three days of speeches, the stage is now set for the Democratic nominee herself, Hillary Clinton, who will close out the convention with a speech of her own on Thursday night.
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During his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last week, Trump had rattled off a litany of American woes – “poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad” – and labeled Clinton’s legacy as “death, destruction and weakness”.
Despite Sanders’ own calls for party unity, pro-Bernie attendees have staged protests and jeered various speakers who profess support for Clinton from the main stage.
“I’ve even gotten a few words in”, Hillary said, in a relatively cold segment about her marriage.
Countering the self-focused speech of Trump, who could not stop talking about how the economy and other policy issues were “a disaster” that only he with his self-described infinite wisdom could fix, Obama talked about how much “we, his fellow Americans, have done and how much “we” can do in the future”.
Ms Clinton also used the slogan “love trumps hate” and attacked Wall St for its greed in causing “the worst economic crisis of our lifetime”.
In a final barb directed at Mr Trump, she said: “What Donald Trump will never understand is that America is great, because America is good”.
The FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private internet server didn’t result in criminal charges, but it did appear to deepen voters’ concerns with her honesty and trustworthiness. “Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart…There are no guarantees”, Clinton said. She also said it was wrong to propose bans on Muslims entering the U.S.
After all, she said, our forefathers fought a revolution and wrote a constitution to reject a system giving one person all the power.
“I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill (Clinton), nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America”, Obama said amid deafening cheers from thousands of delegates and guests packed into a sports arena here. The most recent draft came after First Lady Michelle Obama’s well-received speech on Monday night, which had the President up until 3 a.m. on Tuesday re-writing, White House officials said.
The night before, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, US president Barack Obama, and Clinton’s running mate, Virginia senator Tim Kaine, made outright appeals to disaffected Republicans to join Democrats in backing Clinton.
Speaking at the Democratic Convention, she did not hang about when it came to taking a swipe at Republican rival Donald Trump.
“He’s forgetting every last one of us”, she said.
The two candidates have historically high name recognition- upwards of 95 percent of the American people knew of both Clinton and Trump at the start of the race- as well as exceptionally high unfavorable ratings, both hovering at roughly 50%.
Democratic leaders have sought to tamp down lingering bitterness among some die-hard Sanders supporters, and move past unruly displays of dissent that marked the convention’s first day on Monday.
Seeking to offset possible weariness with a politician who has been in the spotlight for decades, he said of Clinton: “She’s been there for us, even if we haven’t always noticed”. For those who are suspicious of her, it was one more potent reminder that she is no Obama.
“Trump says he wants to run the nation like he runs his business”.
“Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with their future”, Khan said.
After his convention Trump got a boost in opinion polls.
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Responding to the charge, Clinton repeatedly channeled a darling of the Republican Party: Former President Ronald Reagan.
