Ahead of her speech, retired four star General John Allen, the former head of United States and global forces in Afghanistan, delivered a powerful address in which he told delegates that Clinton would be “exactly the Commander-in-Chief America needs”. “Most of all, don’t believe anyone who says: ‘I alone can fix it, ‘ ” a reference to a part of Trump’s acceptance speech last week. “Isn’t he forgetting troops on the front lines, police officers and firefighters who run towards danger, doctors and nurses who care for us, teachers who save lives?”
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Clinton took the stage to roaring applause from flag-waving delegates on the final night of the Democratic convention, relishing her nomination as the first woman to lead a major US political party. Her strongest case was that against Trump, which she touched on far too late in her address.
“Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis”, Clinton said as she accepted the Democratic nomination for president. She stopped to whisper in Chelsea Clinton’s ear after her daughter offered a loving introduction.
For politicians, the true measure of the speech’s effectiveness will come in about a week, when polls indicate whether or not the convention gave Clinton a bump in popularity.
Despite Sanders endorsing Clinton and direct orders from the Vermont senator to be respectful, his supporters were not having it.
Her formal acceptance of the nomination made history, cementing her place as the first female presidential candidate to be selected from a major party.
You didn’t think Hillary was going to make it to her victory lap without rubbing Trump’s face in it, right? Watch the full speech below Clinton begins the next chapter in her 40-year odyssey, one she hopes will end with an historic journey back to the White House.
Mrs Clinton presented a sharply more upbeat view of the country than her rival Mr Trump did when he was formally nominated for president at last week’s Republican convention. “Our way of life is under threat by radical Islam and Hillary Clinton can not even bring herself to say the words”.
Still, it’s a phrase always been used by USA presidents, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and even Bill Clinton.
Trump, a 70-year-old NY businessman and former reality TV show host who has never held political office, responded in a Twitter post late on Thursday that “Hillary’s vision is a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety”. Referring to young students, she said Bernie and she would work together for free college education and for a new set of rules governing student loans.
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Clinton was baiting Trump, and the Republican nominee responded in the most clueless way possible. He wants to divide us – from the rest of the world, and from each other. But her primary focus was persuading anxious Americans to stick with a Democrat for a third term and put aside their frustration with those who have been entrenched in the political system. When people here those words they hear America, so don’t let anyone tell you our country is weak, we’re not.
