Trump’s Campaign Reflects Negativity: Hillary Clinton

In fact, Clinton trails only her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, in having the highest unfavorable ratings of any major party presidential candidate in the nation’s history.

“I think here at the convention, it’s been exacerbated by the way they are treating people”, she said.

“At the end of the day, (Sanders’) coalition looked too much like a modern day Woodstock, and not enough like the Obama coalition it takes to win the primaries and the general”, said Boyd Brown, a Democratic National Committeeman from SC who supported former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.

The night was filled with overtures to conservative and centrist voters repelled by the populist candidacy of Trump, who accepted the Republican nomination in Cleveland a week earlier. “Bonds of trust and respect are fraying”, Clinton said in accepting the Democratic nomination.

Clinton was likely to offer a similarly upbeat message, drawing on an idea that has driven her throughout her career, that all Americans should be given the chance to fulfill their potential, a campaign aide said. She disputed Trump’s assertion that she wants to repeal the Second Amendment, saying “I’m not here to take away your guns”.

Campaigning in Iowa on Thursday, Trump said there were “a lot of lies being told” at Clinton’s convention.

“Hillary’s vision is a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety”, he wrote.

Yet resentments lingered throughout the convention, with a handful of attendees booing during her address. A separate pre-convention controversy over hacked Democratic Party emails showing favoritism for Clinton in the primary threatens to deepen the perception that Clinton prefers to play by her own rules.

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. And then on Wednesday night, she went on stage to thank President Obama after his speech.

Two of Hillary Clinton’s immediate family members – husband and former two-term President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton – used their prime-time speeches to give a personal glimpse at her.

“I know that at a time when so much seems to be pulling us apart, it can be hard to imagine how we’ll ever pull together again”, Clinton said to a rapt Democratic convention audience. Fireworks exploded inside the arena and red, white and blue balloons plunged from the arena rafters.

Khizr Khan, a father of a soldier who died in Iraq, blasted Trump for the Republicans proposed temporary ban on immigration by Muslims like Khan. “I have great confidence that if we tell that story, people are going to understand who she is and what she has done all of her life”. “I haven’t had that happen with any of the African-American Bernie supporters”.

“Just ask yourself: You really think Donald Trump has the temperament to be commander in chief?”

The program paid tribute to law enforcement officers killed on duty, including five who died in Dallas earlier this month in retaliation for officer-involved shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana. “Yelling, screaming and calling each other names is not going to do it”.

Former Reagan administration official Doug Elmets announced he was casting his first vote for a Democrat in November, and urged other Republicans who “believe loyalty to our country is more important than loyalty to party” to do the same.

“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 measurement service reports Thursday’s final night of the Democratic gathering in Philadelphia averaged 29.8 million viewers from 10 to 11:45 p.m. ET, compared with 32.2 million who watched the equivalent night of Republican finale last week.