Front pages document Hillary Clinton’s historic moment without photo of her
Former president Bill Clinton attempted to personalize his wife last night during a prime time address.
Among these were the stories told by a panel of mothers, all of whom had lost sons to gun violence, who said Clinton “will say our children’s names”.
Although the convention made clear progress in sublimating its divisions, Clinton remains a divisive and largely unpopular figure for the country, as is Trump. Even Clinton’s catchphrases-“I’m with her”, “cracks in the glass ceiling”-were woven in, with new life breathed into them”.
The roll call behind them, the Clinton camp looked to former president Bill Clinton, former USA attorney general Eric Holder, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a host of other speakers to energize the crowd and begin to forge a bond strong enough to unite the party.
Clinton holds a much higher favorability rating than his wife.
Republican nominee Donald Trump seized on the awkward moments Warren faced, tweeting Tuesday: “Pocahontas bombed last night!”
Clinton’s supposed compromising of her principles, denounced by her detractors, is for Forester just the proof of her pragmatism-essential when trying to navigate hyper-partisan Washington.
“Where does she get her grit and her grace?” said Streep, listing Clinton as part of a long line of “female path-breakers”. “And Hillary was an enabler and she treated these women horribly”. His mother had even fallen on her political sword for Chelsea’s father, casting the deciding vote for President Bill Clinton’s 1993 budget that helped lead to her ouster the next year after a single term.
Trump has also seized on Clinton-era policies, going after NAFTA, which Trump has vowed to renegotiate. “That is just who she is”, he said. When he ran for the first time in 1992, Bill Clinton used to boast that voters would be getting two for the price of one – a declaration that became problematic for the Clintons.
“Senator, you’re going to be vice president in a White House with two presidents”, anchor Scott Pelley said.
Bill Clinton asked Americans to trust him: Trust her, he said, and she will trump Trump’s capacity to change.
While he’s been fundraising and hitting the stump in places where he’s been popular since the 1990s, he’s also created some unhelpful headlines, including his recent spontaneous meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch amid the FBI investigation of his wife’s private email server. Despite spending eight years in the public eye as a first kid when her father was president there may be facts about her you don’t know.
“I married my best friend”, he said. “But obviously no one wants to see any untoward conclusions drawn, and they’ve said, you know, they would not do it again”.
It’s Hillary Clinton’s show, but rival Donald Trump is doing his best to steal it. It’s a speech her spokeswoman has said she’s been working on for a couple of weeks.
The relationship between the president’s spouse and the president’s running mate makes for some fierce echoes for Clinton administration veterans of the feuding between the first lady’s office and then-Vice President Al Gore.
However the Clintons arrange their roles in the White House, Bill Clinton has secured the job of first-ranking surrogate in the campaign to get them there.
Panetta and others suggested that Bill Clinton probably would be involved in diplomatic missions overseas.
“I don’t know, I don’t really know because it’d be such a precedent”, he said of a potential title.