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Democratic convention live: Sarah Silverman tells Bernie or Bust: 'You're being ridiculous' Democratic convention live: Michelle Obama brings down the house in call to unite behind Clinton
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3.38am BST
03:38
Warren: Trump's campaign is an infomercial
Warren:
Trump’s entire campaign is just one more long Trump infomercial. Hand over your money... and the great Trump hot air machine will hand over all the answers. And for one low-low price, he’ll even throw in a goofy hat!
3.36am BST
03:36
Warren pivots to criticism of Trump:
Not once did he lift a finger to help working people... time after time, he preyed on working people, people in debt... he’s conned them, he’s defrauded them and he’s ripped them off.
Donald Trump set up a fake university to make money by cheating people and taking their live savings.
Donald Trump goes on, and on and on about being a successful businessman, but he filed business bankruptcy six times.
What kind of a man acts like this? ... What kind of a man cheats students cheats investors cheats workers?
Well I’ll tell you what kind of a man. A man who must never be president of the United States. And we’ve got the leaders to make it happen. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. ...
So now, he’s insisting that he and he alone can fix the rigged system.” Last week he spoke for more than an hour, “but other than talking about building that stupid wall, which never get built, did you hear even one idea?
Let’s face it, Donald Trump has no real plans.
3.32am BST
03:32
Apparently they had that speech on at the White House:
Incredible speech by an incredible woman. Couldn't be more proud & our country has been blessed to have her as FLOTUS. I love you, Michelle.
3.30am BST
03:30
Warren says she’s worried that opportunity is slipping way. Americans “bust their tail” working multiple jobs but can’t make ends meet. Young people have student loans, social security doesn’t cover basics for the elderly. “This is not right. It is not.”
Corporate profits are at all-time highs, Warren says. “There’s lots of wealth in America, but it doesn’t trickle down to hard-working families like yours... people get it. The system is rigged. It’s true.”
The line about the system being rigged gets strong applause, particularly from the Sanders sections.
3.28am BST
03:28
Huh?
If Cory Booker is the future of the Democratic Party, they have no future! I know more about Cory than he knows about himself.
3.27am BST
03:27
“We’re here today because our choice is Hillary Clinton, Warren says. I’m with Hillary. I’m with Hillary. I’m with Hillary”
Sanders supporters are trying to shout her down. Hard to make out what they’re chanting. Warren keeps right on talking.
Update: “We Trusted you!” they called:
"We Trusted You! We Trusted You! We Trusted You!" – Disgruntled delegates
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3.26am BST
03:26
Who follows that? Senator Elizabeth Warren. She begins, “Bernie reminds us what Democrats fight for every day. Thank you Bernie. Thank you.”
Here are advance excerpts of Warren’s speech:
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3.24am BST
03:24
Scott Bixby
After a first day shot through with a sense of betrayal and injustice at the Democratic national convention, it took a comedian to articulate the feeling of tragedy gripping Bernie Sanders supporters.
Sarah Silverman, started with a pretty obvious ‘Feel the Bern’ gag (‘I put cream on it’), but went on to make one of the speeches of the night, with one of the most thoughtful expositions of the argument for switching from Sanders to Hillary Clinton.
But whilst she articulated the argument for Sanders voters to get behind Hillary, she also displayed a flash of unscripted irritation which appeared to anger some of the Vermont senator’s delegates in the room, . After a day of rolling emotions, Silverman said: “To the ‘Bernie or Bust’ people, you’re being ridiculous.”
The remark came after a unifying speech, which began with her own declaration of support for Sanders. “As some of you may know, I support Bernie Sanders and the movement behind him,” Silverman told the cheering audience.
“Not only did Bernie wake us up, he made us understand what is possible and what we deserve. You know, my shrink says we don’t get what we want, we get what we think we deserve, and Bernie showed us that all Americans deserve quality healthcare.”
“All it takes to accomplish this, it’s everyone, it’s all of us. Or as a pretty kickass woman once said - it takes a village,” Silverman said, the first of numerous references to the common ground shared by Clinton and Sanders.
Silverman called the Democratic primary “exemplary,” especially when compared to the “major arrested-development stuff” employed by Trump, who clearly lacked “human touch or coping tools” as a child.
“That is the process of democracy at its very best, and it’s very cool to see,” Silverman continued, before going in for the full endorsement: “Hillary is our Democratic nominee, and I will proudly vote for her.”
As the audience cheered and jeered, they chants of Bernie and Hillary gliding over one another, Silverman continued. “So inspiring! It’s so inspiring - just a few years ago, she was a secretary, and now she’s going to be president! She’s like the only person ever to be overqualified for a job as the president. So I tell you this: I will vote for Hillary with gusto as I continue to be inspired and moved to action by the ideals set forth by Bernie, who will never stop fighting for us.”
As the arena rocked, Silverman stepped back, before returning to the microphone to give one more sendoff to her more diehard compatriots: “To the ‘Bernie or Bust’ people, you’re being ridiculous.”
3.23am BST
03:23
Do you think Michelle Obama is Beyoncé's Beyoncé?
That speech by Michelle Obama was one for the ages. #DemsInPhilly
Best speech I've heard Mrs. Obama give. It reminds me why people used to say more than a decade ago that she is as (or more) talented.
NBC just showed Bill Clinton during Michelle's speech and he was mouthing "wow."
Michelle Obama just cast the mic through the earth's crust and into its molten core.
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3.21am BST
03:21
Michelle Obama: 'I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves'
Pretty powerful finish from the first lady:
I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, beautiful intelligent black young women, playing with their dog on the White House lawn.
And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.
So don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great. That somehow we need to make it great again. Because this right now is the greatest country on earth.
Obama says she wants “a leader who is worthy of my girls’ promise and of all our kids’ promise.. in this election we cannot sit back and hope that everything works out for the best. We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated and cynical.
“We need to do what we did four years ago and eight years ago” and elect Hillary Clinton president.
Rapturous reception for Flotus pic.twitter.com/Crfr5wHNYx
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3.17am BST
03:17
Michelle Obama: 'I'm with her'
The delegates have purple signs on sticks that looks like the markers in the hall for the state delegations but they all say “Michelle.”
“We lean on each other, because we are always stronger together,” Obama says. “I am here tonight because I know that’s the kind of president Hillary Clinton will be. And that’s why in this election, I’m with her.
“Hillary understands that the presidency is ... about leaving something better for our kids.”
She says Clinton “has the guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting cracks in that highest and hardest glass ceiling until she finally breaks through, and lifts all of us with her.”
3.14am BST
03:14
Michelle Obama is talking about Clinton’s reaction after losing the 2008 primary.
“There are plenty of moments when Hillary could’ve decided that this work was too hard... but here’s the thing. What I admire most about Hillary is that she never [folds] under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life....
“That’s what I want. I want someone who has the proven strength to persevere.”
We’re not on Twitter at the moment but surely it’s full of wild “Michelle Obama 2020” speculation.
Obama says that with the nuclear button, “You can’t have a thin skin... you need to be.. mature and well-informed. I want a president with a record of public service.”
3.11am BST
03:11
Michelle Obama: 'only one person I trust'
This election is “not about Democratic or Republican... this election is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives,” Obama says.
“In this election there is only one person who I trust with that responsibility.. and that is our friend Hillary Clinton.”
Big, large applause.
3.09am BST
03:09
The first lady talks about her daughters, “the joy of watching them grow.”
“I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just seven and ten years old, pile into those black SUVs with so many men with guns, their little faces pressed to the windows, and I thought, what have we done?”
She says “we urge them to ignore those who question their father’s citizenship or faith.. we insist” that hateful language does not represent the country.
“How we explain that when someone is cruel and acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.”
Whomever could she be talking about.
3.06am BST
03:06
Here comes Michelle Obama, and once again we’ve called it – everyone claps.
She is smiling but she can’t talk yet because too many people are clapping too long.
“It’s hard to believe that it has been eight years since I first came to this convention,” she says.
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Now here’s a video about Michelle Obama produced by JJ Abrams. It’s kids talking about Michelle Obama (who speaks next), and lots of shots and video of Michelle Obama dancing and exercising with kids.Now here’s a video about Michelle Obama produced by JJ Abrams. It’s kids talking about Michelle Obama (who speaks next), and lots of shots and video of Michelle Obama dancing and exercising with kids.
Prepare to hill a fairly rousing round of applause in the hall. Kids + first lady + hugs = happy Democrats.Prepare to hill a fairly rousing round of applause in the hall. Kids + first lady + hugs = happy Democrats.
3.02am BST
03:02
Next up is Cheryl Lankford, whose husband, an army sergeant major, died in Baghdad in 2007.
The Democrats air a video of Lankford telling the story of being taken for $35,000 by Trump University.
Now she steps out to tell her story. She says that in addition to losing her husband she never thought she would “be the victim of a scam.
You just saw what happened to me. How Trump University cheated me out of the money I received after my husband’s death. How they broke their promises. How they stopped taking my calls. How the whole thing was a lie…
Conning me out of the money the military gave me after my husband died, I felt he was disrespecting my husband’s memory...
He made millions of dollars off of people like me. Millions. ...
Here’s a guy who was born rich and who has all the money in the world, and there’s nothing wrong with that... but then he decided to make himself even richer by cheating working people who had nothing to spare. What kind of man does that?
She’s applauded.
I’m here because America deserves to know the truth. This election isn’t about Democrat versus Republican. It’s about right versus wrong.
Donald Trump made big promises about Trump University. And I was fooled into believing him. Now he’s making big promises about America. Please don’t make the same mistake.”
2.58am BST
02:58
This is Booker’s famous We Will Rise speech, as perhaps it will become known.
Isn’t that a Jeb Bush super Pac?
Booker’s refrain is “America, we will rise.”
Booker, who’s been not totally arresting throughout, hits it out of the park at the end. His first mention of “love trumps hate” draws a very large applause. And at the end he has them chanting along to “we! will! rise!”
Here’s the end:
Here in Philadelphia, let us declare again that we will be a free people. Free from fear and intimidation. Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us.
We will rise!
2.54am BST
02:54
Good spot! What came of the plane ticket negotiation?
Spotted in the hall - a few rows behind Bill Clinton in a skybox: Debbie Wasserman Schultz #DNCinPHL
Also spotted in the hall: Bill Clinton and... Bernie Sanders.
2.47am BST
02:47
Booker mounts a bit of an attack on Trump’s record in Atlantic City, not included in the advance excerpts:
[Trump] got rich while his companies declared multiple bankruptcies... he took out a lot of cash, but he stiffed contractors... we in America have seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of a nation, sending it into crisis.
2.45am BST
02:45
As Booker speaks, we’re going to take up Businessweek’s Joshua Green on this old college football footage:
Cory Booker flat-out steamrolling Notre Dame in Stanford's 1990 upset win https://t.co/olOTPNIusz
2.38am BST
02:38
We have advance excerpts of Booker’s speech. They’re a bit - well let’s assume the electricity will be in the delivery. Here they are:
“This is the high call of patriotism. Patriotism is love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good. We can’t devolve into a nation where our highest aspiration is that we just tolerate each other. We are not called to be a nation of tolerance. We are called to be a nation of love…”
“We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America’s greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty.”
“Hillary knows when workers make a fair wage, it doesn’t just help their families, it builds a stronger, more durable economy that expands opportunity and makes all Americans wealthier.”
“She knows that in a global knowledge-based economy, the country that out-educates the world will out-earn the world, out-innovate the world, and lead the world.”
“She knows that debt-free college is not a gift, it’s not a charity, it’s an investment. It represents the best of our values, the best of our history, the best of our party: Bernie’s ideas, Hillary’s ideas, our shared ideas. Our shared values.
“Hillary Clinton knows what Donald Trump betrays time and again in this campaign: that we are not a zero sum nation, it is not you or me, it is not one American against another. It is you and I together, interdependent, interconnected with one single interwoven American destiny.”
2.36am BST
02:36
Longoria finishes: “Guess what Donald? It turns out America is prety great already.”
Here comes New Jersey senator Cory Booker. Guess what? He looks happy to be there. He’s Cory Booker.
2.35am BST
02:35
Silverman: 'you're being ridiculous'
2.35am BST
02:35
Now Eva Longoria, actress and activist. She says she’s so proud to say “I’m with her!”
At this point in the night, the line is vigorously applauded.
Have the Democrats put their boos behind them?
Longoria:
When Donald Trump calls us criminals and rapists, he’s insulting American families. My father was not a criminal or a rapist. In fact he’s a United States veteran.
Hillary’s been fighting for us for decades. Now it’s time to fight for her!
2.29am BST
02:29
Paul Simon sings Bridge Over Troubled Water. Democrats sway. Many smile.
Maybe he’ll come back for America when Sanders speaks? We’re dreaming aren’t we.
The combined themes of this convention: An old guy who Millennials love, but who was more popular in the 1990s
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