Elsewhere, Governor Mike Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, hinted that he was attempting to persuade the Trump campaign to drop a ban it has placed on certain news outlet’s reporters from covering its events, including the Washington Post.
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The night’s final speaker was President Barack Obama, appearing 12 years after he burst onto the national stage with his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic convention.
And there are no guarantees that voters will choose the candidate who, though she is far from ideal, at least spends most of her time in the reality-based community.
(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill).
Vice President Joe Biden went on the offensive against Donald Trump, criticizing his reality TV show catchphrase “You’re Fired”, saying he has “no clue” in his speech on Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
“And god willing. Hillary Clinton will write the next chapter in that journey”.
The president also offered a stinging rebuke of Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump, painting him as fear-mongering and unqualified for the job and saying “we don’t look to be ruled”.
Nevertheless, I guess the Democrats get a cookie (or gold star) for at least acknowledging that there is a vicious radical Islamic terrorist group called ISIS, they’re operating in Iraq, and they really want to kill us. But for the first time in about two months, Clinton’s odds have dipped below 70 percent to 68 percent, according to prediction markets data. The FBI said it was working to determine the “accuracy, nature and scope” of the cyberattacks.
Obama framed the choice facing voters in November as something bigger than “the usual debates between left and right”.
Merrill said outside experts found no evidence that the campaign’s “internal systems have been compromised” but gave no detail on the program or nature of the attacks.
The race has come down to two candidates who do not have unified parties behind them – he only recently completed his hostile takeover of the GOP, while she does not yet have the full support of people who tried to take over the Democrats for Mr. Sanders. In the furor, party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz resigned just as Democrats were launching their convention.
“You can’t afford to stay home just because she might not align with you on every issue”, Obama said. After winning that election, he appointed her his secretary of state. Give me a break.
Noting his son had placed his name into nomination during the 2008 and 2012 conventions, Biden said he had gathered strength from his family and supporters, including the President and first lady.
Republican strategist Tom Rath argued, however, that Trump’s convention coup is just another headline win. Hours later, Trump told Fox News he was being “sarcastic” although shortly after his remarks on Wednesday, he tweeted that Russian Federation should share the emails with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Trump said in a press conference this week: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”.
“While I don’t know much about Tim Kaine, what I have read about him is not too impressive”, said delegate Pat Mertens Boyles, of Warminster. “It was a tour of Donald Trump’s mind, and that’s a very frightening place”. The shoot-from-the-hip billionaire believes he can make headway in those states with blue-collar white men, a demographic that has eluded Clinton and was unlikely to be swayed by a convention that heavily celebrated racial and gender diversity. “We must protect our national security”.
“Donald Trump says he gets his foreign policy experience from watching TV and running the Miss Universe Pageant”.
The convention provided hours of glowing tributes to Clinton, including deeply personal testimonials from her husband, daughter Chelsea Clinton and Obama. “Your cause is our cause”. “Yeah”, said Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
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Lemire reported from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
