Although Trump has been a proven ratings draw throughout his campaign, the Democratic convention had proven more popular with viewers than the Republicans for its first three nights.
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Trump’s tweeted response to Clinton’s speech captured his pitch to those voters. The night before, supporters of Clinton primary opponent Bernie Sanders, many of whom still haven’t fully reconciled themselves to Clinton winning the nomination, interrupted former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta with cries of “no more war!”
“I’ve been saying let’s just beat her on November 8”, he said, “but you know what?”
In truth, the Sanders and Trump efforts were a year in the making, but only this month – when Trump effectively seized the 160-year-old Republican Party and forced it off its ideological moorings and sentimental inclinations, and when Sanders demonstrated that he may have lost the Democratic nomination but won the heart of a completely overhauled Democratic Party – was the breathtaking magnitude of this overhaul evident.
Both have seen how the relentless oppositionism of the Republican Party led inexorably to Trump, the most risky and irresponsible nominee any major political party has ever put forward.
The candidate and her team were moving in Pennsylvania in a convoy of more than two dozen vehicles, including two large buses with the campaign slogan “Stronger Together” emblazoned on the side in giant letters. That was an apparent embellishment to Bill Clinton’s lines about how he “got close enough to touch her back” and “knew this would not be just another tap on the shoulder”.
Democrats pounced on Trump’s freewheeling style at the convention. Donald Trump changes that.
The bill that she wrote that passed was about renaming a New York City Post Office.
BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States: We’re not a fragile people.
Trump used Twitter to throw shade on speakers throughout the week. But in Iowa on Thursday, he vowed to follow advice from a “very very great governor” Republican governor who told him to ignore the attacks and focus on Clinton.
“I was going to hit a number of those speakers so hard their heads would spin”.
Trump’s party now claims those Southern conservatives and has married them not with urban liberals with a distinct Northeastern tint but with blue-collar Midwestern voters, mostly but not exclusively male, living in the shadows of abandoned manufacturing plants.
How did her speech hold up on the truth-meter? Sanders and Trump repeated the trick in less than two weeks’ time. John Kasich, the governor of the state hosting the convention, refused to show. Clinton acknowledged the issue, blaming it on the fact that she has always liked the “service” more than the “public” element of public service.
“He has re-written the book of manners since the day he went down the escalator”, said Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson. “Their convention was effective while Trump stumbled into a stupid error on Russian Federation”.
The US Department of Justice national security division is investigating whether cyber hacking attacks on Democratic political organisations threatened US security, sources familiar with the matter said.
Clinton, accompanied by running mate Tim Kaine and their spouses, will speak about economic opportunity, diversity and national security, themes hammered home this week by a stream of politicians, celebrities, gun-violence victims, law enforcement officers, and activists of all sexualities and races.
“I don’t have to be nice to her anymore”.
“There are a lot of hidden Trump voters – people who find it’s not socially desirable to admit to be voting for Donald Trump”, Conway said, according to an account by Maureen Hayden, a reporter for CNHI newspapers.
“Remember this”, he said, “Trump is going to be no more Mr. Nice Guy”.
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