Trump alleged that Clinton had made up facts about him and criticized media coverage of the Democratic convention and her speech.
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The DNC and RNC, as many pundits noted, characterized the country using antithetical tones, which were also reflected in each convention’s marquee moment: Trump’s acceptance speech painted a doomsday picture of the country, while Clinton’s was founded on optimism.
Inside the convention halls, both candidates had a loud and aggressive minority within their convention who were dissatisfied with the nominee.
Democratic Convention concluded July 28, with powerful endorsement of Hillary Clinton as the President of US and an exultant Hillary accepting the nomination. He’s betting that the perils of today’s world will blind us to its unlimited promise, ” she told a rapturous Democratic flock where residual dissent seemed to die down as she reached out to the Bernie Sanders’ renegades.
Sounding a theme her campaign has signaled it will drive home, she highlighted Trump’s failure to pay many who had worked for him – “People who did the work and needed the money, and didn’t get it – not because he couldn’t pay them, but because he wouldn’t pay them”.
He was responding to Clinton’s claim at the Democratic National Convention that Trump has brought the Republican Party from “morning in America to midnight in America”. “His record = BAD”, fired off Trump.
Experts predict that “negative partisanship” – voting against a candidate – will play a major role in deciding who makes it to the White House.
Clinton’s speech “was such a contrast with what we saw in Cleveland last week”, Kaine told CNN’s “New Day” Friday, who described the Republican convention as “dark and depressing”. In the end, the candor was as effective than the gauzy effort by Chelsea Clinton to present her as a family-oriented mother and grandmother.
John Allen, the retired four-star Marine general and former commander of American forces in Afghanistan, delivered a rousing endorsement of Clinton.
On the convention floor, delegates waved American flags and chanted “U-S-A” in scenes of extreme patriotism more usually seen at Republican rallies.
In an hour-long address, she laid out an optimistic plan to improve the USA economy, stressing that “my primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages”. “Safety will be restored”.
Clinton alleged that Trump wants to divide Americans.
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The first paid ad from Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC, funded by $2 million from Republican megadonor Bob Mercer, appeared on the smartphones of Sanders supporters at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. After all, when there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit. “I sweat the details”, be it the amount of lead permissible in drinking water or the cost of prescription drugs. I didn’t know any of this before he became the leading Republican candidate.
