President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will speak tonight in support of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton tonight in Philadelphia.
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Wednesday’s events in Philadelphia were aimed at contrasting the 68-year-old Clinton’s foreign policy skills with Trump’s “unsteady, unfit and unsafe approach”, Clinton campaign chair John Podesta said. When she formally accepts it on Thursday, she will become the Democratic standard-bearer against Republican nominee Trump in the November 8 election.
The Clinton campaign portrays Trump, a former reality TV star, as temperamentally unfit for the White House.
“I don’t know if there’s anything Barack Obama honestly would be able to say”, he said.
Nodding to voters’ concerns, he will say he understands frustrations “with political gridlock, worry about racial divisions” and Islamic State-inspired attacks in Orlando, Florida, and Nice, France.
Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan called Trump’s remarks unprecedented and said his statements have “gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue”.
“She will never stop fighting for our children or our families”, O’Malley said.
Obama, whose wife, Michelle, gave Clinton a rousing tribute at the convention on Monday, is scheduled to deliver his 30-minute speech at 10:30 p.m. EDT (0230 GMT on Thursday).
He said Clinton would approve bad trade deals and allow possibly unsafe immigrants from the Middle East to flood the country.
Trump provided Democrats with some fresh material for a discussion of national security matters.
Trump was on the campaign trail Wednesday, telling reporters in Doral, Fla., that Obama is “the most ignorant president in our history”, adding that Hillary Clinton “would be even worse”.
Donna Brazile, the interim Democratic party chair, told USA TODAY she was not concerned by current polling numbers.
The party is bringing in its heavyweights to project a unified party at the Democratic National Convention, where a raucous opening day of protests gave way to a more orderly nomination for Clinton on Tuesday. “There is a path to the White House for the Democratic Party”.
Obama, only hours after Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party, talked about regrets he has that the new tone for politics he wanted to usher in eight years ago has not materialized.
As the convention opened, delegates quickly dispatched with one piece of business by approving Virginia Senator Tim Kaine’s nomination as Clinton’s running mate by acclamation.
After his Florida event, Trump made stops in Pennsylvania and was headed for OH, energized by a Los Angeles Times poll out Wednesday that showed him leading Clinton, 47%-40%.
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Kaine, a USA senator from Virginia picked as Clinton’s running mate last week, will also get a chance to present himself to the party and the country.
