Hillary Clinton taking presidential campaign on the road after DNC
But there were similarities, as well. “Well, all I can tell you is, we are the best-placed country in the world to seize the future”, she said in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, launching a three-day bus tour with her vice presidential running mate Tim Kaine in the swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Each night, chants of “Lock her up” broke out on the convention floor.
“Well, a great Democratic president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, came up with the ideal rebuke to Trump more than 80 years ago, during a much more perilous time: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'”.
The group is organized around opposing Clinton rather than explicitly boosting Trump. “No, Donald, you don’t”, Clinton said.
In their first campaign rally after this week’s Democratic National Convention, joined by their spouses, Bill Clinton and Anne Holton, Clinton and Kaine vowed that their policies would would create jobs and raise wages as they cast Trump as a “You’re Fired” president.
Sarah McBride became the first transgender person to speak at a major party convention. Donald Trump can’t even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. John Kasich, the governor of the state hosting the convention, refused to show. Trump annihilated every one of them.
“And other than the brief sentiment about the version of America known to both men, the context of the statements was very different”, the report said.
In fact, she herself referred to her reputation as policy wonk who sweated the details, contrasting it to Trump’s attention deficit and lack of policy grasp. The effort to portray Trump as unfit for the presidency carried over, too.
The differences between the two gatherings were perhaps most fully on display during the roll call – when the parties formally nominate the candidate state by state.
Her style was very different from Obama’s.
The junior Trump took to Twitter to make the claim about the similarities.
The Democratic convention held its main events in a barricaded complex of sports arenas far removed from central Philadelphia.
Clinton repeated the convention’s theme of “stronger together”, declaring that her lifelong goal has been to ensure that Americans can use their talent and ambition to strengthen the nation.
A super PAC behind Donald Trump directed its first advertising dollars toward wooing Bernie Sanders supporters on the grounds of the Democratic National Convention.
Trump was campaigning in Colorado yesterday and is scheduled to visit OH next week.
While some had speculated that Sanders supporters would fall in line after his endorsement of Clinton, it appears that this consolidation has yet to gain any momentum.
Clinton also lambasted him for manufacturing many of his Trump products outside the USA, particularly after bemoaning the American jobs that have been lost to companies overseas.
Trump continued the assault Friday morning, criticizing the news coverage as well as Clinton’s speech.
She also promised a comprehensive immigration reform, one of the unfulfilled agendas of the outgoing president Barack Obama.