U.S. Democratic Nominee for President Hillary Clinton speaks on the last day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States, July 28, 2016.
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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”. “Happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between”. She accepted the duty in a powerful speech, in which she said, “When any barrier falls in America, it clears the way for everyone”.
She directly linked her candidacy to the presidency of Obama, whom she said does not get almost enough credit for “saving us from the worst recession since the Great Depression”.
Chelsea Clinton, Mrs Clinton’s daughter, will introduce her.
“America is once again at a moment of reckoning”.
While Clinton must play to the party’s base – and seek to soothe bruised Sanders supporters – a key mission was to appeal to crossover voters and independents wary of Trump.
The conventions have passed without any change to that big picture, and that leaves Clinton as the favourite going into the final three months, it said. “I don’t know how you beat that”. Your cause is our cause.
“It’s not just a detail if it’s your kid, if it’s your family”, she said.
Clinton closed her speech with a call to all Americans: “Let’s be stronger together, my fellow Americans”.
“Yes, the world is watching what we do”, Clinton said.
Later she took issue with Trump’s comments about the military and his supposed superior knowledge about ISIS. (The one between Clinton and Trump is now close.) “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons”, she said, homing in on the extraordinary danger Trump represents. “We have to decide whether we all will work together so we all can rise together”.
Throughout her remarks, particularly at the beginning, pockets of protesters jeered and booed at Clinton.
Hillary Clinton has 100 days to make her case to voters about why they should choose her in November.
One of her best-received lines came when she talked about her plans to increase gun control.
“I’m not here to repeal the 2nd Amendment”.
“The truth is, through all these years of public service, the “service” part has always come easier to me than the “public” part”, she said.
Mr Trump, a 70-year-old reality TV show host who has never held political office, is running just ahead of Mrs Clinton in a RealClearPolitics average of recent national opinion polls. The stakes are high: A loss to Trump could not only end Clinton’s political career, it could be a devastating coda to her and her husband’s political legacy and leave the Democratic Party weaker than it has been in a generation.
And in a bold admission for a candidate seeking to build on Obama’s policies, she said the economy “is not yet working the way it should”.
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We also know that another signature Clinton characteristic is her resilience, how she picked herself up after losing the health care fight in 1994, how she reclaimed her marriage in the wake of scandal, and how she became a trusted partner of the man who defeated her in 2008. According to the tech company, online conversation during the last night of the Democratic National Convention was 22 percent less negative and 44 percent more positive than it was a week earlier when Trump spoke.
