“Bonds of trust and respect are fraying”, Clinton will add, and the American people “have to decide whether we’re going to work together so we can all rise together”, according to the excerpts.
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Biden then broadened the things he thinks Trump is clueless about to everything: “Actually, he has no clue, period”. “Our nation is too great to put it in the hands of a slick-talking, empty-promising, self-promoting, one man wrecking crew”.
“There’s only one person in this election who will help you”, Biden said.
But by the time 2016 rolled around, Watson was “with her” – that is, Hillary Clinton.
Biden used his address on the third night of the Democratic National Convention to appeal to middle-class voters, a group Clinton is under pressure to win over.
But the most powerful evidence for their argument may have come from Trump himself. She doesn’t have the magnetism of the big names who have preceded her this week.
“For my friend Hillary Clinton, I humbly accept my party’s nomination to be vice president of the United States”, the Virginia senator said.
“Russia, if you’re listening: I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, he said at a freakish news conference at his resort in Doral, Fla.
By Hillary Clinton’s own assessment, she is nowhere near the political performer that her husband is.
“This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue”, senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said.
“As someone who was responsible for protecting our nation from cyberattacks, it’s inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be that irresponsible”, he said.
I think it’s fair to say this is not your typical election. “Well his creditors, his contractors, his laid-off employees, his ripped-off students did just that and they all got hurt”. “I ask you to carry her the same way you carried me”. Yet some of Clinton’s most lauded speeches on the trail have been when she lands blows against the real estate mogul, and it’s a sure-fire approach to firing up the crowd and projecting party unity.
A CNN poll showed the Democratic nominee trailing Trump by double digits among registered voters asked which is better prepared to fight terrorism.
“And then there’s Donald Trump”, Obama said.
Biden, who has worked with Clinton for decades, also sought to undercut Trump’s appeal as a champion for the economically distressed in a speech that followed a tribute to his decades of service in the Senate and partnership with Obama.
But it also speaks to the goodness of the United States, which provides the framework of equality that supports the careers, ambitions and fundamental human rights of women.
Mostly, though, Democrats were unsparing in the attacks on Trump. The billionaire was alternately described as a carnival barker, an egomaniac and “a hateful con man”, in the words of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
“It’s time to put a bully racist in his place”, said former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who lost to Clinton in the primaries.
Yet the media “made him look bad”, Trump said. “Trump says he wants to run the nation like he’s run his business. America is already strong”, he said, referring to Mr. Trump’s promise to “make America great again”.
The four days of lavish tributes and glossy production were an effort to reintroduce Clinton to the tens of millions of Americans tuning into the convention far from the boisterous hall – at least to the extent possible for a figure so deeply ingrained in political and popular culture.
In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were just eight women total in Congress. Today there are more than 100 women between the U.S. House and Senate.
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But the governor also agreed with Himes that Obama can and should take on Trump, employing the mordant humor the president employed at Trump’s expense at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner two years ago.
