Tim Kaine is “humbly” accepting his party’s nomination for vice president.
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“I’m leaving the Democratic party”, Lange said Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Claims to making history collided in 2008, when Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama.
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“And no matter how daunting the odds; no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits”, Obama will say.
The U.S. regularly chastises Putin for cracking down on dissent, but doesn’t consider Russian Federation a dictatorship. Putin has won three presidential elections, most recently in 2012.
“And we ” re going to carry Hillary to victory this fall, because that’s what the moment demands”, he said, a line that simultaneously conveyed enthusiasm and resentment. There was an enervating tension in Denver eight years ago, a hangover from a long and often bitter campaign, until the Democratic women’s advocacy group Emily’s List brought Clinton and Michelle Obama together for a celebration.
However, he also addressed Mr Trump’s grim portrait of America, noting it was “not the America I know”.
But I don’t think he met the admittedly formidable challenge before him.
“We need these millennials, we need these Bernie people, and we should be envious of the energy and the passion they’ve been putting forward”, he said.
Instead, Mr Obama described his nation as “full of courage”, “decent and generous”, but also concerned about racial divisions and “frustrated with political gridlock”. The dire warnings about a Donald Trump presidency.
Leona Bridges emphasized, however, that she doesn’t think leaving the Democratic party is the answer.
Clinton is not flawless, Obama said. Trump has no national security experience and few ties to the norms that have governed US foreign policy under presidents from both parties, including standing by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies threatened by countries including Russian Federation. “Sanders, and for the next president for the United States of America, the first female and history will be made, 90 votes for Hillary Rodham Clinton!” said New Jersey Democratic State Chairman John Currie. “They’re what’s fuelling Trump’s rise in states like Pennsylvania and OH”. The tributes to Hillary Clinton as a champion of the downtrodden.
Of Trump, he said, “This guy doesn’t have a clue about the middle class”.
Earlier Wednesday, Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Sen.
Clinton’s campaign believes Trump’s unorthodox candidacy will turn off moderate Republicans, particularly women, who worry he’s too unpredictable to take the helm in a turbulent world.
But Lange seemed less concerned about the future of the Democrats.
Obama is defending his record during his two terms in the White House.
Saunders says both parties play “wedge and identity politics” on many issues.
That coalition was vividly on display in the first two nights of the convention in Philadelphia. Women lawmakers were prominently featured, along with young activists, immigrants, and mothers whose black children were victims of gun violence or killed during encounters with law enforcement. And she’s the only person who can prevent a Trump victory. “Let’s be honest”, she said in her own Appalachia campaign stop.
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Obama’s appearance would come a day after delegates officially nominated Clinton and largely set aside lingering tensions between her supporters and those of her primary rival Bernie Sanders.
