The night after she won a powerful endorsement from the president of the United States, Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for the highest office in the land. He trashed Clinton’s speech as “average”, called her a liar and promised to end the migration of Syrian refugees. “I’m taking the gloves off”, he said. But in her convention speech and her first events afterwards, her priority was to go after Mr Trump, not ask for trust. 25% decided not to choose between the two.
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“There’s no doubt in my mind that every election is important in its own way, but I can’t think of an election that was more important in my lifetime”, Clinton told thousands of supporters in a West Philadelphia arena.
The 68-year-old Democrat portrays Trump as a threat to democracy, seeking to woo moderate Republicans repelled by the former reality TV star and shore up a coalition with progressives on the left of her party.
Among viewers who viewed the speeches negatively, 12 percent felt negative about Clinton’s speech, compared to Trump’s 24 percent negative rating of last week’s speech. “I don’t recognise that, because that is not who we are as Americans”, she told supporters in Pennsylvania.
One poll released on Friday showed her leading Trump by six percentage points.
In Colorado, Trump goaded Clinton on her failure to hold a news conference since December and accused her of lying to the FBI over its investigation of her email scandal as secretary of state.
Declaring that the USA is at a “moment of reckoning”, Clinton had on Friday 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.
“Donald Trump goes around with that hat on, “Make America Great Again”.
Clinton needs to win over some of the disgruntled working class voters that form the backbone of Trump’s base.
Clinton is in the midst of a post-convention campaign bus tour through the battleground states of OH and Pennsylvania.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and vice presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), along with former president Bill Clinton, Anne Kaine and Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf arrive for an event at K’NEX in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, July 29, 2016.
There are 100 days before Americans cast their vote in November, but before then, we need to be discerning in getting to know each candidate through their campaign sorties, interviews, speeches, debates and by reading more about their characters, track records, visions, platforms, and plans for America.
Joining Clinton, vice presidential nominee Kaine alleged that a lot of companies owned by Trump are pushing more and more jobs overseas.
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Earlier on Friday, at a rally held in Denver, Trump also criticized Clinton’s Thursday speech.
