Vermont’s delegation passed to become the last vote and voted all 22 votes to Sanders.
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, July 26, 2016.
He says he is trying to shift his movement to encourage people to run for office and fight for the issues he pushed for during his campaign.
Biden tells MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the party has done “the right thing” for those voters, but “hasn’t spoken enough” to them.
One reason for the disconnect he suggested is that, “We’ve been consumed with crisis after crisis after crisis”.
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.
Republicans’ deeply negative views of Clinton find a parallel in Democrats’ deeply negative views of Donald Trump, who rates an average of 11 on the scale, with about two-thirds of Democrats giving him a zero rating.
Bill Clinton told story after story in which his wife brought positive change to problem areas that crossed her path. “How can you square all this with what you heard at the Republican Convention? he asked”.
Kaine is speaking at a breakfast with delegates from his home state, one of the country’s most important general election battlegrounds.
Wednesday’s display was the picture of diversity that Democrats have sought to frame the whole week: The first African-American president symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman. Obama has repeatedly stressed solidarity with peaceful Muslims and claimed Trump’s proposals, like one to temporarily ban immigration from countries with links to terrorism, only embolden violent groups.
“Donald Trump has disrespected our military, and I think that will shine through tonight”, Sullivan said.
The president made the comments in a taped interview aired Wednesday. “All the work, sacrifice, and effort of the American people could end in the very same disaster that we inherited in 1981”, Reagan said.
“She’s insatiably curious, she’s a natural leader”, he said, describing her as the Clinton family’s “designated worrier” who was “born with an extra responsibility gene”.
“Nothing truly prepares you for the demands of the Oval Office”, Obama said. Trump also said that if elected “we’ll be looking at” whether to recognize Crimea as part of Russian Federation.
Thursday will mark the last day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Bill Clinton told the convention in a keynote speech that Hillary had been an activist for social justice since the couple’s early days as law students together.
Hillary Clinton’s running mate was governor of Virginia – not New Jersey – and now represents the commonwealth in the U.S. Senate.
“I’m really disappointed by how many people make claims that are not substantiated against her, and the misogyny… it was bad in 2008 and it seems to have gotten worse”, said Marilyn Hafling, a Democratic volunteer from St Petersburg, Florida. But he said the leak is consistent with Russia’s past conduct.
Palaniappan said she was happy to see Clinton adopting some of the policies Sanders promoted in his campaign, saying she believes Sanders can unite the party, but also added, “I think we also need to be able to listen to each other”.
He evoked Ronald Reagan, a move that drew criticism from Clinton when they were rivals, to contrast the Republican icon’s vision of America as “shining city on a hill” with Trump’s description of the U.S.as “a divided crime scene”.
It was long ago and far away when Barack Obama snippily remarked, “You’re likable enough, Hillary”.
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Even in his lengthy departures from script, Clinton showed much of the charm and magnetism that had made his speeches memorable in the 1990s – and again in his introduction of President Obama at the convention that re-nominated him in Charlotte in 2012. 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.
