An email hack on the Democratic National Committee before the convention showed that party officials showed favour to Mrs Clinton and tried to undermine Mr Sanders’ campaign, further painting Mrs Clinton as an insider politician.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton arrives on stage after her daughter Chelsea Clinton introduced her on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, July 28, 2016 in Philadelphia.
After Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday night, an advisor for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump slammed the former secretary of state’s speech as “an insulting collection of cliches and recycled rhetoric”.
President Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden and Mrs Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, spoke passionately and powerfully about why she is qualified to sit in the Oval Office and why Donald Trump is not.
While most convention speakers focused on a bright future under a Clinton presidency, many carried the theme of attacking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his portrayal of America.
Clinton smiles during her speech during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She criticized Trump’s proposals including one to build a wall along the Mexico-US border and another to ban Muslims from entering the country. I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders – he never had a chance. “We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have”.
“Today, we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more ideal union: The first time that a major party has nominated a woman for President”, Clinton said. “It’s a daughter talking about her mother and the fact that she’s her greatest role model …”
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“Tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me”. But in Hillary Clinton’s America, millions of people are left out in the cold. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons”. But her primary focus was persuading Americans to not be seduced by Republican presidential candidate Mr Trump’s promises to restore economic security and fend off threats from overseas. What tone will Clinton take? “You might have noticed, I love talking about mine”. “I am getting hit and they don’t mean it and there’s a lot of lies being told”, he said.
