“Hillary Clinton is a workhorse, not a showhorse”.
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She’s locked in a tight general election contest with Republican Donald Trump, an unconventional candidate and political novice.
As she prepared to deliver her speech, people familiar with the matter said the FBI is investigating a cyber attack against another Democratic Party group, which may be related to an earlier hack against the Democratic National Committee.
Asked what specifically that might be, she said she “can’t honestly think of what that is”. “America isn’t about ‘Yes he will.’ It’s about ‘Yes we can'”.
Wednesday’s was the picture of diversity that Democrats have sought to frame the whole week: A black man symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman.
“What we heard in Cleveland last week wasn’t particularly Republican – and it sure wasn’t conservative”, he said. Polling shows that while Americans don’t doubt Clinton’s qualifications, they question her honesty, a problem made worse by the congressional and FBI investigations into her use of a private email account and server as secretary of state.
Republican Donald Trump did his best to steal the spotlight Wednesday.
Ms Clinton will address the Democratic Convention this afternoon (NZ time) where she will accept the party’s nomination for US President, and have the stage to deliver the most important speech of her political career.
At his convention last week Mr. Trump portrayed a country reeling from crime, losing its way on the worldwide stage, failing to meet the threat from terrorists and struggling to emerge from the economic doldrums that have lasted for Mr. Obama’s entire tenure.
Trump’s comments fed Democrats’ contentions that the billionaire businessman is unqualified to be commander in chief. He has no national security experience and has breezily dismissed decades of US foreign policy constants, like standing by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies that long suffered under Russian domination.
After her mother’s presidential bid she re-entered public life to hit the campaign trail, endearing herself to supporters with stories of Clinton as a mother and grandmother to her children, Charlotte, aged 2 come September, and Aidan, born in June. Other speakers include Vice President Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine.
“I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not Bill, nobody, more qualified to serve as president of the United States of America”, Obama said.
“He wants to divide us from the rest of the world and from each other”, Clinton said, mocking Trump’s claim that he alone can “fix” the country.
“I have held out until the very end, until I heard from Bernie that it is time to move on and support Hillary and I am going to do it”, said Canaan, Vt., resident Martha Allen, the head of the Vermont chapter of the National Education Association, the first union in the nation to support Sanders. She’s ready because of her heart. “America is already strong”, he told cheering delegates at the convention. She can’t get away from that. To her detractors, Hillary’s dishonesty has only been reinforced by the revelations over her use of a private email server in government.
And with continued protests both outside and inside the convention hall by disaffected Bernie Sanders supporters, Obama also took a stab at party unity.
A consistent message has been Clinton’s perseverance.
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“Some people just don’t know what to make of me”, she said with a frankness that is unusual in American politics.
