“Excluded from Hillary Clinton’s America are the suffering people living in our inner cities, or the victims of open borders and drug cartels, or the people who’ve lost their jobs because of the Clintons’ trade deals, or any hardworking person who doesn’t have enough money to get a seat at Hillary Clinton’s table”. Bernie Sanders’ supporters to join the fight against Donald Trump, saying, “Your cause is our cause”. Please explain to me what part of America First leads him to make Trump ties in China, not Colorado.
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Clinton took the stage to roaring applause from flag-waving delegates.
The Republican presidential nominee for the November 8 election later said he was being “sarcastic” in his comments, which raised concerns among intelligence experts and criticism that Trump was urging a foreign government to spy on Americans.
In an hour-long address, she laid out an optimistic plan to improve the US economy, stressing that “my primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages”. With the Democrats’ sunnier performance, Clinton should get her own bump as the 14-week sprint to Election Day begins.
On right, on Thursday, July 21, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. “It’s a future we are going to build”. “I’m proud that we put a lid on Iran’s nuclear programme without firing a single shot – now we have to enforce it, and keep supporting Israel’s security”, Clinton said. It covers eight million children every year, she said. PBS said its viewership for Clinton’s speech was 3.91 million people, and 2.75 million the week earlier for Trump. So just ask yourself, do you really think Donald Trump has the temperament to be commander in chief?
But the “America I know” refrain, and its variations, is a common phrase used by former United States presidents including Mr Obama himself and also George W. Bush. A running campaign commentary on Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech repeatedly cast her as a fixture of Washington who is incapable of changing its ways, reports CBS News correspondent Major Garrett.
“Great speech”, he tweeted. “She’s ready. She never quits”.
By the end of Republican and Democratic conventions it seemed like the nation’s most powerful political parties were speaking about two different countries.
“And if you’re looking for a kind of pessimistic, downbeat vision of America, we’re not your folks”.
“Or said that an American judge couldn’t be fair because of his Mexican heritage”.
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She spoke of her wholesome middle class upbringing and said her family were builders of the American dream and not people “with their name on big buildings” – another dig at Trump. “None of us can do it alone”, she said. Despite some ongoing resistance from Bernie backers she vowed to pinch some of his economic policies and also tackle issues like student debt which gained Sanders so much support.
