Actress Elizabeth Banks hosted the night and gave an unforgettable entrance depicting Donald Trump’s at the RNC.
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Journalists and critics are taking newspapers to task for featuring photos of Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders to accompany their front-page stories about Hillary Clinton’s nomination Tuesday night. If she wins in November, the Clintons would also be the first married couple to each serve as president.
When former President – and soon to be first husband – Bill Clinton spoke Tuesday night, he underscored how Hillary Clinton has been a lifelong advocate for underserved communities: She unmasked an illegally segregated school in Alabama, registered Mexican-American voters in Texas, traveled to SC to see why black youth were jailed with adult criminals, and helped reform the youth justice system.
During the primaries, she renounced the deal she once called “the gold standard” under pressure from anti-trade rival Bernie Sanders.
“Our credibility as a movement will be damaged by booing, turning of backs, walking out or other similar displays”.
Bill Burke, 38, a beefy man who wears his beard in a braid, said he turned Sanders’s speech off halfway through.
Trump gloated at the Democrats’ opening day disorder. In North Carolina, he told a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that, “our politicians have totally failed you”. Drop her into any trouble spot, come back in a month and, he said, “she will have made it better”.
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“It’s easy to boo”, Mr. Sanders told a group of jeering California delegates on Tuesday.
“We’re at the end and starting a new beginning for this general election campaign”, said Welch, a Democratic superdelegate who supported Sanders, “where all of us have to be just welded together at the hip to win this race”.
“Maybe we’re in a bubble, but we have a lot of people who are very energetic [about Mrs Clinton]”, said Mr Oriole. “She stole the election!” someone else shouted.
While Sanders has endorsed Clinton, the former first lady faces a hard task attracting his backers as she battles Trump.
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Several told Breitbart News on Tuesday evening that 800 Sanders volunteers who had raised funds to participate in the convention were denied access to the floor.
– The headliner will be President Barack Obama. “They were forcing him to fall in line, and I didn’t want to hear it”, he said.
In some cases, as Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau pointed out on Twitter, papers, like his, put out a late edition with an image of Hillary Clinton addressing the DNC on a video screen, replacing their early edition with an image featuring Bill Clinton.
“I do think Trump wouldn’t be as scary as Hillary, because he’s all talk”, she said.
“I just feel like having someone as incredible as her break the glass ceiling, it’s for all of us, all of us women”, she said.
Shyla Nelsa, a Vermont delegate who was among those nominating Sanders on stage, said the walkout was an “organized, peaceful, nonviolent action” she described as “no voice, no unity”. He said the protesters at the convention had a right to stay.
The truth is, Sanders was running against Bill Clinton’s Democratic Leadership Council politics more than anything else: partial Glass-Steagall repeal, NAFTA and other free trade agreements, capital gains tax cuts, a crime bill that arguably contributed to mass incarceration of African Americans, symbolic concessions to social conservatives despite being socially liberal overall, a US foreign policy in which preventive war plays a significant role. The former secretary of State appeared via video from NY to thank delegates for their support and urge them to fight for her and their party in the grueling, three-month election season that lies ahead. Several other witnesses spoke of her commitment to health care as well as health care policy.
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The cache of leaked emails disclosed that DNC officials explored ways to undercut Sanders’ insurgent presidential campaign, including raising questions about whether Sanders, who is Jewish, was an atheist. Republicans dismissed the suggestion as absurd.
