Clinton’s big night: Now is time to make her case

“Hillary Clinton is a workhorse, not a showhorse”.

The four-day Democratic convention in Philadelphia has been a parade of party heavyweights – and some independents – who have all stressed that the former first lady and USA senator is uniquely qualified to be commander-in-chief.

Other loud chants coming from California delegates interrupted retired Rear Adm. John Hutson’s speech, who also took the chance to criticize Trump and his foreign policy plans. And that’s why I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as President of the United States of America. But for now the finish line is the election in November. “I told him what I’ve just told you”, he said.

Clinton has said on numerous occasions that she needs to earn voters’ trust, shaken in part because of her use of a private, unsecured email server while she was the country’s top diplomat during Obama’s first term.

Last night, President Barack Obama took the stage to endorse Hillary Clinton’s run for the presidency.

Tonight is the night that Hillary Clinton accepts the bid to become the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee – the first time a woman has become a major party’s nominee in history. The Republicans have pledged to undo key markers of the Obama administration including his healthcare reforms, and will appoint conservative judges to the Supreme Court.

Obama was the final speaker on a Democratic National Convention night Wednesday filled with big names. “It doesn’t matter to him that illegal immigration and the crime rate are as low as they’ve been in decades, because he’s not offering any real solutions to those issues. And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump”, Obama said.

“Our country does not feel “great already” to the millions of wonderful people living in poverty, violence and despair”, he wrote on Twitter. They say those delegates are ignoring the fact Sanders lost the nomination to Clinton, in part, because he didn’t appeal strongly enough to African-American voters.

“Until you’ve sat at that desk, you don’t know what it’s like to manage a global crisis, or send young people to war”, Obama said. He hopes their silence will signal that the Democratic Party has not unified around Clinton-contrary to media reports. Long segments of his stump speeches were simply Trump reading poll results that showed him in the lead.

Chelsea Clinton commented on Ivanka Trump’s convention speech during an interview on Facebook Live hosted by Glamour this week.

And while Trump casts himself as an outsider, a political neophyte committed to upending the Washington establishment, Clinton faces the hard task of appearing as the steady hand at the tiller even while promising to be a catalyst for change. “She’ll finish the job – and she’ll do it without resorting to torture, or banning entire religions from entering our country”.

Trump, who has never held public office, offered his critics fresh lines of attack on Wednesday, urging Russian Federation to find and release tens of thousands of emails that Clinton did not hand over to USA officials as part of a probe into her use of a private email system while she was secretary of state. “Does anyone”, he asked, “really believe that a guy who’s spent his 70 years on this Earth showing no regard for working people is suddenly going to be your champion?”

“He’s trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. Give me a break”.

“Think about that”, said Biden, his voice growing angrier.

The few remaining, tired Ted Cruz supporters found a rallying cry in the former Republican presidential candidate’s refusal to endorse Trump, a moment of party discord that prompted security to escort Heidi Cruz out of the convention hall and away from irate, yelling Trump supporters.