“Some people just don’t know what to make of me”, she said with a frankness that is unusual in American politics.
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A major goal of the Democratic National Convention is to humanize Hillary Clinton, to make voters like her. The final speaker to do that on Clinton’s behalf was her daughter, Chelsea, who spoke ahead of her mom on Thursday night.
“I want you to know I’ve heard you”, Clinton said.
Clinton proclaimed that “progress is possible” as she became the first woman to accept her party’s nomination for president.
She later took a shot at one of Trump’s comments from the Republican convention in Cleveland last week by telling the audience they shouldn’t “believe anyone who says, ‘I alone can fix it'”.
Her chief challenges include convincing Americans dissatisfied with the slow and uneven economic recovery and fearful of a spate of new terrorism attacks that staying the course is better than betting on the unpredictable agenda of Republican rival Donald Trump.
“We have never, ever had someone who has walked in our shoes, we have never had someone who understands what it means to be a woman in America, and we have never had the kind of champion that we are going to have in Hillary Clinton”.
“When any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone”.
“He’s forgetting every last one of us”, she said. But in her convention speech and her first events afterward, her priority was to go after Trump, not ask for trust. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a fellow billionaire who had a cordial relationship with Trump while in office, took to the democratic stage to back Clinton. Bernie Sanders attempt to unify their supporters.
But numerous Vermont senator’s backers weren’t persuaded, especially after leaked emails confirmed their suspicions that national party leaders favored the former secretary of state during a protracted contest for the Democratic nomination.
The celebratory mood of this week’s Democratic convention spilled over into Friday as Clinton boarded her blue campaign bus, wrapped with the slogan “Stronger Together, ” to open a three-day bus tour through the Rust Belt battlegrounds of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Throughout the convention, Democrats tried to convey the stakes of the election not only to Sanders backers but Republicans concerned about Trump’s bombastic tone and foreign policy positions. “(…) He wants us to fear the future and fear each other”.
In the chart below, Trump’s numbers are on the left and Clinton’s are on the right.
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“I was curious to see whether she’d do a class act and not mention my name”, he said. Clinton said. “Donald Trump can’t even handle the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign”.
