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| Hillary Clinton camp to use convention stage to stress candidate's core values | Hillary Clinton camp to use convention stage to stress candidate's core values |
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| Hillary Clinton’s historic confirmation as the first woman to become a major party’s presidential nominee gives her the chance to redefine her personal connection with the American people, advisers said. | Hillary Clinton’s historic confirmation as the first woman to become a major party’s presidential nominee gives her the chance to redefine her personal connection with the American people, advisers said. |
| After a storm of bad news on a divided opening day in Philadelphia, and with Democratic delegates set to formally nominate her to lead their bid for the White House, Bill Clinton was at the centre of this new push to bring to life his wife’s sometimes flat campaign. | After a storm of bad news on a divided opening day in Philadelphia, and with Democratic delegates set to formally nominate her to lead their bid for the White House, Bill Clinton was at the centre of this new push to bring to life his wife’s sometimes flat campaign. |
| Related: 'He convinced none of us': Sanders diehards react to convention speech | Related: 'He convinced none of us': Sanders diehards react to convention speech |
| “She is the most famous, least-known person in the country,” her communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, told reporters in Philadelphia, 15 months into her second campaign. “People know her résumé … what we want people to know tonight is what’s that core value that has enabled her to do this.” | “She is the most famous, least-known person in the country,” her communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, told reporters in Philadelphia, 15 months into her second campaign. “People know her résumé … what we want people to know tonight is what’s that core value that has enabled her to do this.” |
| Former president Clinton was due to be joined onstage by the singer Alicia Keys and a video tribute led by Meryl Streep in a night that intended to refocus attention on the winning candidate after 1,846 delegates take turns to cast their votes for her failed opponent Bernie Sanders. | |
| Though Michelle Obama drew widespread praise for helping heal party wounds on Monday night, Democrats are increasingly worried that scenes of division may exacerbate a recent surge in support for Donald Trump. | Though Michelle Obama drew widespread praise for helping heal party wounds on Monday night, Democrats are increasingly worried that scenes of division may exacerbate a recent surge in support for Donald Trump. |
| “Poll after poll is showing that Trump has been eating away at our lead, and after his convention, he’s erased it entirely,” warned a campaign fundraising email to Clinton supporters on Monday as the Republican nominee took his biggest average lead yet. | “Poll after poll is showing that Trump has been eating away at our lead, and after his convention, he’s erased it entirely,” warned a campaign fundraising email to Clinton supporters on Monday as the Republican nominee took his biggest average lead yet. |
| Clinton’s campaign has downplayed the new polls, attributing Trump’s rise to an expected post-convention bounce. Before the Philadelphia convention began on Monday, Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, warned reporters that any analysis based on the polls was premature until after the Democrats had their chance to make their case to the American people. | |
| But Palmieri acknowledged that Clinton had work to do to repair voters’ lack of trust in her. Just three in 10 Americans believe Clinton is “honest and trustworthy”, her lowest rating by this measure in CNN’s polling, according to findings published on Monday ahead of the convention. | |
| “We do polls, we see [them], she’s acknowledged that she has work to do to earn people’s trust,” said Palmieri. “She realises that there aren’t magic words that you can say that develop that trust overnight.” | “We do polls, we see [them], she’s acknowledged that she has work to do to earn people’s trust,” said Palmieri. “She realises that there aren’t magic words that you can say that develop that trust overnight.” |
| Clinton, who has been on the public stage since the 1980s, has a long record which opponents, both left and right, have used to criticise her – from voting for the Iraq war to keeping her state department emails on a private server. | |
| Sanders supporters have also used her voting record on trade and her close links to Wall Street as evidence that she does not represent change. | Sanders supporters have also used her voting record on trade and her close links to Wall Street as evidence that she does not represent change. |
| Campaign staff put a brave face on the tumultuous scenes of open revolt among some Sanders supporters, who confirmed on Tuesday he would be returning to the US Senate as an independent, not a Democrat. | Campaign staff put a brave face on the tumultuous scenes of open revolt among some Sanders supporters, who confirmed on Tuesday he would be returning to the US Senate as an independent, not a Democrat. |
| During his speech on Monday night, his supporters booed when he praised Clinton and erupted into angry shouting when he said in closing: “I’m proud to stand with her.” Outside the arena, protesters had marched through downtown Philadelphia denouncing the “rigged” political system. Periodically, protesters broke into chants of “Lock her up!”, a memorable refrain from the Republican national convention. | During his speech on Monday night, his supporters booed when he praised Clinton and erupted into angry shouting when he said in closing: “I’m proud to stand with her.” Outside the arena, protesters had marched through downtown Philadelphia denouncing the “rigged” political system. Periodically, protesters broke into chants of “Lock her up!”, a memorable refrain from the Republican national convention. |
| “In this room are Hillary Clinton’s most passionate supporters and Bernie Sanders’ most passionate supporters,” Palmieri said. “There are the actual delegates, the people who not just believe in their candidate but were selected to represent the people who voted for their candidate, so they feel really strong about that. | “In this room are Hillary Clinton’s most passionate supporters and Bernie Sanders’ most passionate supporters,” Palmieri said. “There are the actual delegates, the people who not just believe in their candidate but were selected to represent the people who voted for their candidate, so they feel really strong about that. |
| “It is something to respect and it is also something that has made our party’s nominating process, our party’s primary much more substantive and productive than what you’ve seen on the Republican side, which was a race to the bottom.” | |
| But the job of the convention now is to capitalise on the historic nature of Clinton’s win – as the self-described glass-ceiling-cracker, reaching higher than a woman has gone before in US politics. She must now try to match the passion which Sanders inspired as she urges peopleto get behind her and her running mate, Tim Kaine, seen as a solid choice rather than an exciting one. | |
| Advisers acknowledged that the pair “are people who work hard, not so much show horses but workhorses”. | |
| “They know how to make progress. Sometimes we are asked, ‘Hillary Clinton has been at it for a long time,’ and we are asked if that is the right candidate for an election that is about change, and the answer is yes … that’s what she has been doing for four decades,” said Palmieri. | |
| On the trail during primary season, Bill Clinton compared his wife with other candidates, saying “her jobs ideas are better” and telling crowds: “You will never have a chance to have a president that is a better change-maker – she’s the best at it I have ever seen.” | On the trail during primary season, Bill Clinton compared his wife with other candidates, saying “her jobs ideas are better” and telling crowds: “You will never have a chance to have a president that is a better change-maker – she’s the best at it I have ever seen.” |
| The story of a candidate who failed to secure the nomination in 2008 will now be recast as a story of determination – a theme which Michelle Obama identified in her hugely affecting speech on Monday. She said Clinton had “the guts and the grace to keep coming back” after defeat. | The story of a candidate who failed to secure the nomination in 2008 will now be recast as a story of determination – a theme which Michelle Obama identified in her hugely affecting speech on Monday. She said Clinton had “the guts and the grace to keep coming back” after defeat. |
| “The story of the president and Hillary Clinton as former rivals that came together to be partners,” explained Palmieri. “And now she’s seeking to succeed him and him being such a gracious and aggressive supporter of hers … It’s also a remarkable story that we might follow the first African American president with the first woman president.” | “The story of the president and Hillary Clinton as former rivals that came together to be partners,” explained Palmieri. “And now she’s seeking to succeed him and him being such a gracious and aggressive supporter of hers … It’s also a remarkable story that we might follow the first African American president with the first woman president.” |