She said her time on the rules committee was “very frustrating, but also interesting…”
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“Look, there’s always a segment of these protests that are vehemently anti-Israel and would burn a flag if they had one”, Keyak said.
Mason got that right.
After all, the success of Sanders was also rooted, in many ways, in his ability to address voters’ concerns and frustrations.
On Tuesday night, former president Bill Clinton delivered an endearing and emotional tribute to his wife at the Democratic National Convention that reminded us of something we do, in fact, need to be reminded of at times: Hillary Clinton is human.
“I move that all votes cast by delegates be reflected in the official record, and I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States”, he said, even as some of his supporters wiped away tears. The vice president sought to convince average Americans that Clinton understands their concerns.
Could these lost votes cost Clinton the election?
“Don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country is not great”, she said.
Women have tried before. Annie Naranjo-Rivera, a delegate from OR who’d helped organize the walkout, told me that the group was called Occupy the Media and that it was protesting what it saw as the silencing of voices within the Party.
There’s Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Margaret Chase Smith was nominated at the 1964 Republican National Convention, and received 27 delegate votes. But for convention week, it was important to focus all their attention on Clinton in the lead-up to her Thursday night acceptance speech.
Winning a major-party nomination for the presidency shatters a glass ceiling.
The historical moment came late. He was referring to emails on Hillary Clinton’s private server as secretary of state that she said she deleted – because they were private – before turning other messages over to the State Department. But now he says “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it would lead to the end of civilization”.
Sanders has called on his supporters to back Clinton’s campaign, but some of them say Clinton must first fully embrace their issues, such as opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Eight years later, Obama is headed out of office, and Clinton is seen as his political successor, something of a continuation of his two terms, who would try keep in place many key programs like Obamacare.
Numerous polls have shown a divide on optimism that exists on racial as well as partisan lines – one reason, perhaps, that Clinton fared better with minorities and Sanders did well among white voters.
Evan Siegfried, a Republican commentator opposed to the candidacy of GOP nominee Donald Trump, told Business Insider that he thought the Clinton campaign didn’t do some of the things it should’ve been doing on Tuesday night. “And I saw Rachel Maddow give him hell over that”.
Few in the arena knew what to expect when the lights went down and the jumbotron started flashing the images of all 44 male USA presidents in order.
“Hillary knows that when a young black life is cut short, it’s not just a personal loss”, said Geneva Reed-Veal, the mother of Sandra Bland.
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SEN. TIM KAINE (D-VA), Vice Presidential Nominee: She’s going to open up who we are as a nation, who the leadership of this nation is. He argued that the image presented of her at the Republican convention was a cartoon, and that the real woman is a hard worker who makes everything she works on better.
