President Barack Obama addressed the convention, defending his legacy and calling on the country to pass the baton to Hillary Clinton.
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JOHN YANG: At the White House, President Obama prepared for his last convention as president.
President Barack Obama put him in charge of efforts to cure cancer during his 2016 State of the Union Address. That was a joke.
Biden’s rebuke came just hours after Trump reportedly called on Russian Federation to hack into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email server to obtain unpublished emails.
It’s all part of a whirlwind week for the Virginia Senator. Biden said that “betrays our values” and makes it harder for the United States to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. I think it’s great for men to be able to stand and support strong women leaders all across this nation. Also, the word is significantly more popular with Democrats..
“He’s betting that if he scares enough people he’ll score just enough votes to win this election”, he said, “and that’s another bet that Donald Trump will lose”.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump told reporters.
“I think he has been very successful in playing on their fears”. Leveraging his blue-collar bona fides, Biden argued Clinton is intimately familiar with the economic disenfranchisement that helped power Trump’s rise. “I could see where a lot of our adversaries would think it’s better to have someone who doesn’t have any idea what they’re doing than have somebody as tough as Hillary”. Not a clue. He has no clue about what makes America great.
JOHN YANG: Last night, dozens of Sanders delegates walked out of the convention.
WOMAN: We don’t believe that Clinton is a true Democrat.
Why don’t they send him to the families of the soldiers who can’t get health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and let him tell them that America never fails? We’re making sure we’re heard. “Ordinary people like us, can do extraordinary things”, Biden said.
For the “PBS NewsHour”, I’m John Yang in Philadelphia.
Tonight, the reality that his career in elected office was nearing an end seemed to truly hit home for the vice president, who had long marched to the beat of his own drum.
Speaking to the Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia, Obama offered an alternative to businessman Trump’s vision of the United States as being under siege from illegal immigrants and terrorism and losing its way in the world. Where’s all the talk about the threat from terrorism?
Hillary Clinton appeared on stage following the Presidents speech.
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He had a 2-point lead over Clinton in a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday, the first time he has been ahead since early May. We disagree. if you go back and look, he and I never disagreed on a major substantive issue.
