Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads her Republican rival by five points and has improved her image over the past month, according to a latest national poll which attributed it to Democrats who have an increased enthusiasm for her.
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In the biggest speech of her more than 25-year-old career inthe public eye, Ms Clinton accepted the Democratic presidentia nomination for the November 8 election with a promise to make the United States a country that worked for everyone.
The fourth and final day of the convention kicks off a 4 p.m.
The convention was also a chance to emphasize parts of Clinton’s biography, such as her work for the Children’s Defense Fund after graduating from law school, that remain less well-known than her more controversial tenure as a politically active first lady.
That much is clear after four days of drama, division and messy democracy in Philadelphia, where the Democrats began their convention week amid discord and ended with a buoyant candidate lifted up by a cascade of powerful, effective political endorsements.
“He doesn’t make a thing in America except bankruptcies”, she said to a crowd of more than 5,000 in a gymnasium at Temple University.
That effort was hammered home Wednesday by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who implored Americans to “elect a sane, competent person with sane, worldwide experience”. With the Vermont senator watching from the arena, Clinton told his supporters: “I’ve heard you”.
Trump, meanwhile, is just as unpopular as he was before the conventions, it said.
Following reports Russian Federation hacked Democratic Party emails, Trump said he’d like to see Moscow find the thousands of emails Clinton deleted from the account she used as secretary of state. “If you have been fighting for years, you are going to get beat up, get people saying you can’t be trusted”, he said.
“He’s taken the Republican Party a long way from “Morning in America” to midnight in America”.
Yet the media “made him look bad”, Trump said.
Arnet, who keeps a Hillary sign on her front lawn, lives in Mount Lebanon, just a few miles from downtown Pittsburgh, in a brick home on a quiet, leafy street.
That only adds to Arnet’s motivation to rally around Clinton. She’s a grown-up, and he has no desire to be one. Polls taken when she was a senator and the secretary of state show high approval ratings. Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis.
“It’s something about the way people perceive her”. “I think it has something to do with her gender and that any women would suffer that”.
Even now, when Sanders tries to explain to them why they need to support the Democratic nominee or vote for Democratic senators and congressmen, it’s nearly too late.
“I would like to have seen Bernie win, but now I believe in her”, said Stephanie Fedro-Byrom, who joined the neighborhood watch party.
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“I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not Bill, more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as President of the United States of America. Happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between”, Clinton said.
