Obama, Bloomberg make an appeal to voters outside the party

Democrats cheered when Republican Doug Elmets took the stage at their convention.

Clinton’s final day of the Democratic National Convention will feature speeches by a former member of President Ronald Reagan’s administration and a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official who is heading a GOP group supporting Clinton, part of an expanded outreach to Republican voters and donors. Elmets opposes Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policy, saying that Trump is “no Ronald Reagan”.

The focus of the opening days of the Democratic National Convention was unity – speakers from comedian Sarah Silverman to Bernie Sanders himself openly called for the Sanders camp to support nominee Hillary Clinton.

In 1992 following the Democratic convention that year, Richard Wirthlin, who was Ronald Reagan’s pollster, told me that Bill Clinton was “dishing the Whigs”. “I worked in President Reagan’s White House”, the Iowa native said. “Donald Trump, you are no Ronald Reagan”, he said, echoing the famous line Texas Sen.

Menendez said during his speech that Trump’s comments were not only an invitation for a foreign adversary to conduct espionage, but “I consider that an act of treason”, a crime punishable by death. As Obama battled Clinton for the 2008 Democratic nomination, he lauded Reagan for changing “the trajectory of America” and said that Republicans “were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time”. Fortunately, I don’t believe he’ll get that chance. “It’s also a shock… because unlike many of you, I’m a Republican”, he stated.

Elmets told the crowd of Democrats the Republican Party’s 2016 platform was laced with “alarming…anti-immigrant, anti-gay and anti-women positions that do not represent the views of most Americans”.

But they also attempted to give off the impression that Republicans are rallying to her side.

This year, though, she said she’s voting for Clinton.

And partisan-hybrid Bloomberg, who backed Clinton after considering a run himself, called voters to join him “not out of party loyalty” but out of love of country – and economy.