Hillary Clinton’s big speech last night drew wild enthusiasm from Democratic convention-goers in Philadelphia, but the joy didn’t end there.
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“He wants to divide us from the rest of the world and from each other”, Clinton said, mocking Trump’s claim that he alone can “fix” the country.
“I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans, independents, for the struggling, the striving and the successful”.
During her wide-ranging speech, which called for unity while touching on topics of immigration, healthcare, education, and the economy, the former First Lady, Secretary of State, and NY senator pulled no punches against Trump, whom she said “can’t even handle the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign”.
The Republican presidential nominee has proposed banning non-citizen Muslims from entering the country and passionately condemns undocumented Hispanics. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”, Clinton said, alluding to Trump’s penchant for social media.
“All of a sudden Tuesday they started taking our signs away”, she said, noting the same signs were allowed Monday.
“Our Founders embraced the enduring truth that we are stronger together”, she said.
I first met her in the fall of 1991 when her husband came to D.C.’s Jefferson Junior High School to tape a campaign commercial.
During a speech marked by boisterous applause she accepted the nomination “with humility, determination and boundless confidence in America’s promise” as the convention hall erupted in a jubilant outpouring. Clinton is a striver, and that’s a core value she brings to whatever she undertakes.
It remains an open question as to whether chants of U-S-A, General Allen’s words and the moving advocacy of Mr. Khan, the father of a Muslim Army officer who was killed in Iraq, will fundamentally alter perceptions of the Democrats and Secretary Clinton as weak on national security and undermine Donald Trump’s assertive and sometimes jingoistic calls for eliminating ISIS.
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”.
“Donald Trump can’t even handle the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign”, said Hilary Clinton today of the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host at the Democratic National Convention.
“And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters – and all our sons and daughters – now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States”, Obama said.
-“Explain to me what part of America First leads him to make Trump ties in China, not Colorado”.
The two women said the competing sides had been largely cordial to one another ahead of Clinton’s speech Thursday night.
She went on to promote plans to raise the minimum wage, expand health care and offer free public college for most Americans, all measures which Sanders promoted during the primary. Reporter: I don’t know if you can hear it but they’re still popping balloons.
Clinton cited President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s best-known remark in a rebuke of Trump’s platform, saying “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.
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Ross and 18th Congressional District delegate Patsy Bowles of Bloomington, a supporter and longtime friend of Clinton, spoke to The Pantagraph about the convention before Clinton’s speech Thursday. If it was up to Donald Trump he never would have been in America.
