Confronting a “moment of reckoning”, Hillary Clinton is casting herself as a unifier for divided times and a tested, steady hand to lead in a volatile world.
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“I’m asking you to have an open mind, and use your voice because on November 8 it will be just as powerful as any NRA lobbyist”, she says. “But we are not afraid”, Clinton will add. “You just have no idea what it feels like, at this age, to see this day”.
Elleithee, a former communications director for the Democratic National Committee, bluntly warned that as for moderates’ hopes that Clinton will make significant moves to the center following the convention, “That’s not gonna happen”. She will say Americans are “stronger together”.
Clinton, vying to be the first woman elected president in USA history, needs to make a convincing argument she can bring about change while representing the legacy of Obama, who is nearing the end of his second four-year term with high approval ratings.
For Clinton, the stakes are enormous.
This year, Democrats want to fight the man and be the man, and running against Donald Trump, they might manage the feat.
The Democrats are now to the left of President Obama and desperately trying to placate the teary-eyed, obstreperous, wholly unrealistic shock troops of the Bernie Sanders Revolution, yet they’re also portraying themselves as the party of sobriety and traditional political norms.
Thursday night, Clinton will make an even bigger crack.
In her speech Clinton will say she will work to create more opportunities and more good jobs with rising wages, and confront stark choices in battling “threats and turbulence” around the world and at home. A separate pre-convention controversy over hacked Democratic Party emails showing favouritism for Clinton in the primary threatens to deepen the perception that Clinton prefers to play by her own rules. Chau Ngo, a 32-year-old Sanders delegate and mother of two from Austin, said she’s more focused on what it takes to defeat Trump than what a Clinton presidency would mean for the women’s movement. The issue has clouded this week’s convention in Philadelphia.
But if Obama plagiarized the line from Trump Jr., then Trump Jr. had to first plagiarize the line from Obama, who has used a version of it at least twice before.
He acknowledged that Clinton, who will be introduced by daughter Chelsea, also knows “she needs to earn the voters’ trust”.
“The only thing I’ve seen Donald Trump do when it comes to USA trade policy is run his mouth and line his pockets”, Brown said. “We want her to hopefully understand that we’re doing it for him as much as we are doing it for her”. Indeed, the emotional distance of her public persona has always been at odds with the warm and generous woman described by those who know her well.
“We’ve been through it together”, she said.
“Now I’ve been fighting for a trade agenda for more than 20 years that puts American workers first and I can tell you that in all those years I’ve never ever seen Donald Trump”, said Brown, one of the most liberal members of the Senate.
Trump campaigned in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
“Twelve years ago, when our country needed new leadership, Americans selected a Democrat who gave us eight years of peace, prosperity and promise”.
Oddly enough, it was Trump, author of “The Art of the Deal”, who got outsold. “It will change our lives in ways we can’t fully imagine yet”, he said.
Hours later, Trump told Fox News he was being “sarcastic” although shortly after his remarks on Wednesday, he tweeted that Russian Federation should share the emails with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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But for all her political star power, Obama does not enjoy the grind of the campaign trail, and she tends to ask campaign strategists to pick and choose their efforts to deploy her. Stephanie Cutter, a political consultant who was a top aide to the Barack Obama campaigns, said the first lady is a careful planner who will probably take control of her schedule.
