Hillary Clinton’s Speech Was a Powerful Moment for Mothers and Daughters

This week at the Democratic National Convention, much of the focus was not on nominee Hillary Clinton, but on Bernie Sanders and his enthusiastic contingent of young supporters.

During her acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton warned that anything could set Trump off, including tweets.

Clinton’s speech came on the final night of a convention that had heard from many impressive speakers over the course of the week.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump slammed rival Hillary Clinton after she accepted her nomination at the Democratic National Convention, reproaching her for not uttering the words “radical Islam” during her speech.

“This is a story of unity right now”, said Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, “and I believe it’ll be a story that will only grow stronger, not only in the party on the national level, but also on the state level, as well”.

Trump’s address had 30 million viewers while Clinton’s had 28 million viewers, The Hill reported.

Donald Trump Jr. claimed on social media that that a line from his speech to the Republican Convention – “that’s not the America I know” – was pinched by the US President.

Trump continued the assault Friday morning, criticizing the news coverage as well as Clinton’s speech.

John Stubbs and Ricardo Reyes, two former officials in President George W. Bush’s administration, attended the convention to generate interest in their pro-Clinton grassroots organization called R4C16.org.

Another one complained that there “there’s nothing Democratic about this!”

“He’s offering empty promises”.

“I get it that some people just don’t know what to make of me so let me tell you”, she said. Find out via AP’s Election Buzz interactive. After her daughter, Chelsea, introduced her, Clinton moved to unify not just her party, but every undecided voter.

The Democratic convention was meticulously created to craft her image as a caring grandmother tough enough to battle terrorists and unite a party still unsettled by a fractious primary process.

Wait! There’s more Hillary Clinton at the DNC: What Did She Say?!

Lacking Obama’s sweeping rhetoric or the “feel-your-pain” sensitivity of her husband, Clinton leaned into her wonky image, saying: “I sweat the details of policy”.

Clinton hopes to win over not only the hearts of Republican voters but also the wallets of some of the party’s donors. “You might have noticed, I love talking about mine”. She called for a clear path to citizenship for immigrants, and said she would not ban a religion.

At one point, as a group of veterans endorsed Clinton from the podium, some California delegates chanted “no more wars!” and “peace, not war!” “I think we’ll stay here all night because I don’t really want to go home and watch that crap”, he said. A running campaign commentary on Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech repeatedly cast her as a fixture of Washington who is incapable of changing its ways, reports CBS News correspondent Major Garrett.

Basil Smikle, executive director of the state Democratic Committee, said the party will still need to work to assuage Sanders’ backers concerns.

Perhaps the most emotional moment in the four-day convention came from Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim US soldier killed in Iraq.

Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, an African-American and close ally of Clinton, was telling the story of his late father – a share-cropper in SC – on the convention’s first day when Sanders supporters started chanting “No TPP” and holding up signs opposing the trade pact. I worked for Ronald Reagan.

“Now I’ve been fighting for a trade agenda for more than 20 years that puts American workers first and I can tell you that in all those years I’ve never ever seen Donald Trump”, said Brown, one of the most liberal members of the Senate.

“We are going to grow our majority because New Yorkers support what we stand for and what we have done”, Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif said in a statement Wednesday.