In the biggest speech of her more than 25-year-old career in the public eye, Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination for the November 8 election with a promise to make the United States a country that worked for everyone.
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Here’s her take: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.
Watch Hillary Clinton’s full speech at the Democratic National Convention July 28 as she became the first woman to accept the nomination of a major party for the presidential election. “Regardless of what happened in my life, she was always, always there for me”, she asserted.
Before formally introducing Hillary as her “hero”, Chelsea made one last, simple, assuring statement to the crowd: “I know with all my heart that my mother will make us proud, as our next president”.
She further criticized what she called “the bigotry and the bombast” of the Trump campaign and cast his temperament has unfit for the presidency. Chelsea Clinton’s appearance comes after her father, ex-President Bill Clinton, gave a deeply personal address about his wife Tuesday night.
“This is the moment, this is the opportunity for our future”, said retired Marine Gen. John R. Allen, a former commander in Afghanistan. “We will work with all Americans and our allies to defeat terrorism”, she said, targeting Trump over his rants against Muslims and Mexican immigrants.
American flags waved in the stands of the packed convention hall.
“We’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more ideal union: The first time that a major party has nominated a woman for President”, Clinton declared on Thursday.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is dismissing heavy Democratic criticism as “mostly false stuff”.
She embraced her reputation as a studious wonk, a politician more comfortable with policy proposals than rhetorical flourishes.
Clinton said her presidential nomination is a milestone on America’s “march toward a more flawless union”.
Clinton thanked President Barack Obama and said she’s a better person because of Obama’s friendship.
Jennifer Pierotti Lim, who co-founded a group of Republican women backing Clinton, also spoke Thursday: “In Donald Trump’s America, it doesn’t matter that I’m an accomplished attorney and a policy expert, it just matters how attractive I am on a scale of one to 10”.
Chelsea Clinton tells the Democratic convention that her mother has always made her feel “valued and loved, ” and she says Hillary Clinton wants that for every child. Later, he tweeted that Clinton’s vision is “a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety”. She will be tasked with winning the trust of a public deeply skeptical of her honesty, polls show. The most powerful validation came Wednesday night from Obama, her victorious primary rival in 2008.
Clinton also assailed Trump’s record as a businessman.
Of course, Chelsea Clinton is not the only prominent daughter during this presidential campaign.
Hillary Clinton has the stage. Fireworks exploded inside the arena and red, white and blue balloons plunged from the arena rafters.
That effort was hammered home Wednesday by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who implored Americans to “elect a sane, competent person with sane, global experience”. The diverse parade of speakers who took the stage in Philadelphia this week underscored that goal.
On the convention’s closing night, Khizr Khan, an American Muslim whose son was killed in military service, emotionally implored voters to stop Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration.
“I did not hear any kind of contrition or acknowledgment of the questions about her email server”, Kondik told VOA. “I will gladly lend you my copy”. Police and firefighters who run towards danger?
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“Violence is not the answer”, Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez said. Clinton has picked up some Republican endorsements in recent weeks, including Brent Scowcroft, a national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, and Hank Paulson, a Treasury secretary under President George W. Bush. For those who vote for me and those who don’t.
