Mrs Clinton promised to be a president for not just Democratic party supporters, but also for Republicans and independents, some of whom have lent their support to her on the podium despite being from rival parties.
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Declaring that the USA is at a “moment of reckoning”, Clinton had yesterday attacked Trump for his “bigotry and bombast” while pitching herself to be a steady leader, as she scripted history by becoming the first woman presidential nominee. “I get it that some people just don’t know what to make of me”.
“Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis”, she said.
Trump’s tweeted response to Clinton’s speech captured his pitch to those voters.
“This is the moment, this is the opportunity for our future”, said retired Marine Gen. John R. Allen, a former commander in Afghanistan. “If it were up to Donald Trump, he would never have been in America”.
Fresh from accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton’s hitting the road, to shore up support for her White House bid.
Clinton is presenting a more upbeat view, promising an America that works for everyone.
But the former U.S. secretary of state and first lady encountered another distraction as her aides acknowledged that a hacking attack that exposed Democratic Party emails also reached into a computer system used by her own campaign.
Through four nights of polished convention pageantry, Democratic heavyweights told a different story about Clinton.
Clinton was clearly emotional as she walked on stage, and said, “I’m so happy this day has come”. Obama declared Clinton not only can defeat Trump’s “deeply pessimistic vision” but also realize the “promise of this great nation”. If she wants to convince me and millions of others that her words and platform mean something, the proposals need to match the platitudes.
Clinton was introduced by her daughter, Chelsea, who spoke warmly of her mother as a woman “driven by compassion, by faith, by kindness, a fierce sense of justice, and a heart full of love”. She leaned heavily on her “stronger together” campaign theme, invoking her 1996 book “It Takes a Village”.
PHILADELPHIA – Tucson resident Joseline Mata, a Hillary Clinton delegate from the beginning, was crying in the stands of the Democratic National Convention Thursday as Clinton accepted the party’s nomination, the first woman in history to do so. A parade of speakers – gay and straight, young and old, white, black and Hispanic – cast Trump as out-of-touch with a diverse and fast-changing nation.
Speaker after speaker cast Mr Trump as intolerant, inexperienced and risky, including the Pakistan-born immigrant father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, who held up a copy of the Constitution and insisted that Mr Trump “has sacrificed nothing”.
“It’s true, I sweat the details of the policies we’re talking about, the exact levels of lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, the number of mental health facilities in Iowa or the cost of your prescription drugs”, she said. Let me ask you: Have you even read the US Constitution? “I will gladly lend you my copy”. The hackers had access to the programme for about five days. “Yelling, screaming and calling each other names is not going to do it”.
“We didn’t hear that at the Republican convention at all”.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Fresh off a spirited convention, Hillary Clinton told prospective voters Friday they face a “stark choice” in November and pressed ahead with the scalding rhetoric against her Republican rival that marked numerous speeches in Philadelphia. 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.
