PHILADELPHIA ― President Barack Obama, who began his presidential career as the victor of a divisive primary, may be ending it this year as the Democratic Party’s greatest unifier.
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Kaine, a USA senator from Virginia picked as Clinton’s running mate last week, will also get a chance to present himself to the party and the country.
Obama concluded his speech by asking voters to elect Clinton, 68, as the 45th president.
Obama spoke to the discontent in the country – “pockets of America that never recovered from factory closures; men who took pride in hard work and providing for their families who now feel forgotten”.
And yet, the following morning Sanders shifted his tone at a breakfast hosted by Bloomberg Politics, telling reporters he would return to his post in the US Senate not as a Democrat, but as an independent.
The references to Sanders came from a president and a Democratic nominee for vice president who devoted substantial portions of their speeches to hailing Hillary Clinton, the party’s nominee for president. This cabal of entrenched interests tried their level best to sideline Obama, but he mobilised ordinary Americans like no politician in history and eventually forced the DNC to accept him.
Trump’s comments fed Democrats’ contentions that the billionaire businessman is unqualified to be commander in chief. Trump has no national security experience and few ties to the norms that have governed US foreign policy under presidents from both parties, including standing by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies threatened by countries including Russian Federation.
Brown described being painstakingly background-checked, effectively deposed by a team of lawyers and interviewed by Clinton for 90 minutes at her home in northwest Washington. But, he asserted, “I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill Clinton, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as President of the United States of America”.
“Maybe we’re in a bubble, but we have a lot of people who are very energetic [about Mrs Clinton]”, said Mr Oriole.
“Even in the middle of crisis, she listens to people, and keeps her cool, and treats everybody with respect”, he said in speech experts.
John Mark Stodola, son of Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola, wore a vintage “Bill Clinton for President” hat and donned a T-shirt with the faces of Clinton and his vice president, Al Gore. Tim Kaine, gets his turn in the spotlight, too.
DNC allies insisted this week that party staff offered Clinton and Sanders the same services and support throughout the hard-fought Democratic primary, and that the process of integration was done in a gradual and “respectful way”, as one Democrat put it, only after Clinton had established a almost insurmountable delegate lead. They recognize that Republicans, as well as many Democrats, have questions about Clinton’s character but hope to ease those concerns.
She’ll also discuss national security, which was largely absent from the first two nights of the convention but a frequent topic during Wednesday night’s program. Women lawmakers were prominently featured, along with young activists, immigrants, and mothers whose black children were victims of gun violence or killed during encounters with law enforcement.
The 20,000 incriminating emails of the DNC that have been disclosed in cyberspace essentially show Ms Clinton to be what her Republican rival Donald Trump labels as a “rigged” or “crooked” candidate who bested her Leftist rival Bernie Sanders through institutional foul play. She will be tasked with winning the trust of a public that is deeply skeptical of her honesty.
Trump has cast himself as the “law-and-order” candidate and promised to get tough on terrorists. And Sanders supporters believe he lost votes because of rules that allow only registered Democrats to vote in many state contests. While Americans as a whole are split on Obama’s record, members of his party say that his tenure has left the nation stronger internationally and improved economically.
“We’ve been consumed with crisis after crisis after crisis”, he said.
On Tuesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton cinched a historic win, becoming the first female Democratic presidential nominee. What the party bigwigs failed to do then, they have now succeeded by ensuring Sanders’ defeat.
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“As of yesterday, I guess, officially our campaign ended”, Sanders acknowledged during a meeting with New England delegates.
