In contrast to Trump, Obama lays out optimistic vision for US
She says the convention and Clinton’s acceptance speech have inspired her to one day consider public office.
During her speech, Clinton reached out to Sen. The tour will take them through Rust Belt hubs like Pittsburgh and Youngstown. “In fact, I think he lost his election because of that”.
But Clinton aides are confident that the same reason Republicans are disaffected – Trump atop the ticket – will be the same reason that most liberal Democrats will overlook issues they have with Clinton and not vote for a third party option.
Democrats hope that Obama nostalgia will animate voters over the next three months as Obama clears much of his schedule to campaign for Clinton and other Democrats across the U.S.
“Because she has no message, she has to try and confuse by making these kinds of attacks”, Manafort told Fox News on Friday. “But even more important than the history we make tonight, is the history we will write together in the years ahead”.
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And she presented the general election as an existential decision for American democracy, saying the country will be choosing between “morning in America” or “midnight in America” with Donald Trump.
The city which hosted the signing of the Declaration of Independence 240 years ago became a symbol in her speech, as Clinton accused her opponent, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, of demonstrating illiberal tendencies rarely seen in American political life.
Trump is also targeting OH and Pennsylvania as states where he can make headway with blue-collar white men.
The former secretary of state, introduced by her daughter Chelsea, drew on the historic roots of Philadelphia as a way to reiterate one of her campaign slogans.
But Trump got a boost in opinion polls from his convention. Next week, Pence is set to travel to Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia.
Just four years later, he would be standing before the convention accepting the Democratic nomination, and again four years later for renomination. He blasted her for “failed policies” of increased regulation and government.
Throughout her remarks, particularly at the beginning, pockets of protesters jeered and booed at Clinton.
“Forget about feeling like a great Democrat, you leave there feeling like America is a great country”, Gulino said. Vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, mocking Trump, said, “Believe me, there’s nothing suspicious in my tax returns”. But in her convention speech and her first events afterward, her priority was to go after Trump, not ask for trust.
Jason Woodside, an Undecided Voter said, “How her mother struggled as a child How her mother taught her to be a fighter”.