“As Secretary of State, she was a champion for women and girls around the globe”, Planned Parenthood Fund President Cecile Richards.
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Clinton spokesperson Brian Fallon said that he had not heard the specific allegations, but that the Clinton campaign had been “working in close coordination with the Sanders campaign to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be heard”, while “being respectful at the same time”. Her political stances aren’t drastically different from Sanders’ ideas.
Bernal excoriated the Democratic establishment for not making room for the Sanders dissidents. Gillian Kratzer just completed the program, with plans to put what she learned to use in her role as chairwoman of the Blair County Democratic Committee.
Star surrogates, including Bill Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama, worked hard this week to redraw the cartoon character created in Cleveland.
Wednesday’s display was the picture of diversity that Democrats have sought to frame the whole week: The first African-American president symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman. They may not know all the details of her advocacy work as a young woman, but they have seen her smash-mouth partisanship, her grating insincerity, her gross money-grubbing, her serial dishonesties, her cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof caution and her grind-out ambition that has lacked a light touch or any poetry. In an NBC News interview, Obama suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin was actually rooting for Trump – although he provided no evidence – and said the GOP businessman has “expressed admiration” for Putin. It drew swift condemnation from the Clinton campaign.
“Believe me!” he exclaimed over and over, imitating Mr Trump’s tone as he ridiculed a list of the Republican’s promises.
Trump did his best to steal the spotlight Wednesday.
The appearance of him encouraging Russian Federation to meddle in the presidential campaign enraged Democrats and Republicans, even as he dismissed suggestions from Obama and other Democrats that Moscow already was intervening on his behalf.
Obama also stirred a new fight with Trump in the interview, aired Wednesday.
The speech, officials say, will act as a bookend for an increasingly reflective commander in chief.
The address will bookend Obama’s career-launching address to the Democratic convention in 2004, his contentious 2008 primary battle with Clinton and his eight years in office.
The convention’s third night was also a time for Democrats to celebrate Obama’s legacy.
Trump also reacted to President Bill Clinton’s convention remarks one night earlier, embellishing some parts as he lamented the lack of mention of what Trump termed his “favorite chapter”. ‘I grabbed her. I grabbed her.’ And then when he said that, I knew that my favorite chapter would happen, and it didn’t happen. Trump added, somewhat defeated, “So what’re you gonna do?”
“She had thick blonde hair, big glasses, wore no make-up, and she had a sense of strength and self- possession that I found magnetic”. She will be tasked with winning the trust of a public deeply skeptical of her honesty, polls show.
“She won the Democratic primary by spending years slowly, assiduously building relationships with the entire Democratic Party”. Gabriel McArthur, a Sanders delegate from suburban Denver said anything short of an “hours-long heart-to-heart” with the candidate will likely leave him cold.
Other speeches began following Clinton’s nomination.
“Hillary having butterflies in her stomach, I would be surprised”, said MA delegate and lawyer Beth Boland, 54.
5Democrats feel warmly toward Clinton, while Republican views of her are very cold.
That effort was hammered home Wednesday by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who implored Americans to “elected a sane, competent person with sane, global experience”.
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Retired Marine General John R. Allen, who has endorsed Clinton, will be joined on stage Thursday night by a group of veterans to focus on Clinton’s national security credentials.
