He even shouted at her during the speech, telling her to “walk the walk”.
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Promising Americans a steady hand, Clinton cast herself as a unifier for divided times, steeled for a volatile world by decades in politics that she admitted have left some Americans skeptical of her character.
Clinton said her mother’s example inspired a lifelong will to work for the disadvantaged. Excluded from Hillary Clinton’s America are the suffering people living in our inner cities, or the victims of open borders and drug cartels, or the people who’ve lost their jobs because of the Clintons’ trade deals, or any hardworking person who doesn’t have enough money to get a seat at Hillary Clinton’s table. “Lancaster Mayor J. Richard Gray said he found Clinton’s focus on optimism a welcome contrast to the dark tone of Trump’s acceptance speech last week”. “I sweat the details of policy”. Of Trump, she said he had shifted his party a long way from Reagan’s slogan.
“He’s taken the Republican Party a long way, from “Morning in America” to ‘Midnight in America, ‘” Clinton said.
It situated her campaign in American history – and a history that the Democrats have too often ceded to the Tea Party types – it underscored the theme of unity amidst diversity, and it insinuated that Americans don’t need another aspiring monarch (i.e. Trump) to rule over them. “Clinton thanked Sanders and his supporters earlier in her speech”.
Not everyone was convinced. Diana Orozco-Garrett, a 58-year-old delegate from New Mexico, said she was just as conflicted after the speech as she was before.
“I just don’t know frankly how a person like this would be electable”, Trump said. “But there are other dangers and concerns for another set of people if Hillary wins”. Clinton, who aides say spent weeks working on her address, saw the speech as a major opportunity to answer what her husband called the “cartoon alternative”. Whether she builds on it over the coming weeks may well determine the fate of her bid for the presidency.
Clinton said she believes Americans are poised to fight for prosperity and justice for all citizens and the estimated 11 million undocumented individuals.
A poll released on Saturday has given Hillary Clinton a 15-point lead over Donald Trump, suggesting the Democratic nominee for president is enjoying a significant post-convention boost. Their occasional chants of protest were drowned out by Clinton supporters chanting, “Hillary!” So let me tell you. Williams said Clinton came off as a leader who would be firm but understands the importance of cooperation and compromise.
“We love Tim Canova”, said Jake Quinn, as many of his fellow Sanders supporters volunteered to me that they have donated money to the insurgent opponent to Wasserman Schultz.
At its core, Clinton’s speech, like the Democratic convention that it brought to a close, was about what it means to be American – and what it doesn’t.
“Now, you didn’t hear any of this from Donald Trump at his convention”. How her message translates to the rest of America is yet to be seen. “Those were Donald Trump’s words in Cleveland”.
A Pew Survey Center poll taken in June found that 59 percent of women voters say they would support Clinton over Trump, compared with 43 percent of men.
Khizr Kahn, a Muslim whose son was one of 14 Muslims killed while serving in the military since the September 11, 2001, attacks, drew cheers when he pulled out a pocket copy of the US Constitution and said he wanted to show it to Trump.
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Clinton embraced her reputation as a policy wonk, offering a litany of proposals for tuition-free college, infrastructure investment, immigration reform, gun control, affordable child care, paid family leave and more.
