Hillary Clinton wins historic presidential nomination; husband relates their story

In 2004, Howard Dean, former governor of Bernie Sanders’s home state of Vermont, staged his own run for president.

His remarks came just hours after Hillary Clinton officially became the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, making her the first woman to lead a major-party presidential ticket.

Clinton’s personal image, which has fluctuated during her 25 years in the public eye, slumped after a divisive Democratic primary, a lingering controversy over her use of a private email system while serving as the top U.S. diplomat, and repeated Republican attacks on “crooked Hillary”.

Acknowledging that there were differences between the woman he had described and the one the Republicans had spoken of last week, he said “one is real and the other is made up”, adding that the Republicans had created a “cartoon alternative”.

On a night filled with emotion that was largely celebratory, the unity that many Clinton supporters hoped would happen was absent as Sanders supporters left the convention hall to protest the nomination.

Two delegates held up a red banner emblazoned “History” in white letters as Clinton’s face showed up on the screen. The DNC on Tuesday night highlighted eight mothers who had lost children to racially charged violence ― some at the hands of police, others at the hands of civilians.

The former president said during his keynote speech Tuesday that his wife is “always making things better”, and that “she’s a change-maker”.

Although the convention made clear progress in sublimating its divisions, Clinton remains a divisive and largely unpopular figure for the country, as is Trump. USA women got the right to vote in 1920 after ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

The answer, according to the delegates, goes beyond Sanders simply losing the nomination.

Clinton has been a regular speaker at Democratic conventions since at least 1980 and returned to the convention arena in 2012, when he gave a rousing 48-minute speech in support of President Obama’s re-election. “I wish she could see it”.

“It is a situation where she is the lesser of two evils, and it makes me sick that there is a candidate that I believe in, that I am passionate about, who represents oppressed minorities everywhere and has for his entire life, and I am denied the opportunity to stand behind him because the system was rigged from the beginning”, Olivia Love-Hatlestad told VOA. When she tells deeply personal stories, they tend to be those of people she’s met along the way, on whose behalf she’s fighting. He also visited the NY delegation.

A Colorado delegate, Caitlin Glidewell, who’s in school to be a sign language interpreter, brought up the superdelegate system, which particularly rankles Sanders supporters.

Mr Trump cheered the disruptions from the campaign trail. He told us how she looked and what she was wearing when he met her.

Trump has been a frequent target at the Democratic gathering, where several videos featured his comments about women and the disabled, and tried to discredit the real estate mogul’s business record.

Now that Clinton is the Democratic presidential nominee, efforts to boost the youth vote for her in November are ramping up. Tim Kaine, Clinton’s new running mate.

For a man more accustomed to delivering policy-packed stem-winders, Clinton’s heartfelt address underscored the historic night for Democrats, and the nation.

Hillary Clinton has been announced as the Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party.

The stakes for him are particularly high following his much-criticized decision to meet privately with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the middle of the FBI’s investigation into his wife’s email use at the State Department.