The nation's most prominent Democrats on Wednesday night sought to instill a sense of urgency in voters that was absent four years ago, when Donald Trump was elected President.
On the third night of the Democratic National Convention, former President Barack Obama stood in Philadelphia, where the Constitution was written, to warn of a democracy under grave threat.And the party's 2016 presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, appeared from her home in New York, as if to say: Don't let this happen again.It was California Sen.
Obama: Our president should be custodian of this Democracy 19:06Two convention speeches tell the story of Obama's increasingly unsettled view of the arc of the American political system.He burst onto the national political scene with a 2004 keynote in which he rejected"the politics of cynicism" and heralded"hope in the face of difficulty; hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope.
Hillary Clinton offers cautionary tale about this election 06:34If the theme of the night was urgency, Clinton speaking from her living room in New York and not as president of the United States, was exhibit A.Clinton's remarks were a warning, both to Democrats who may believe Biden's current polling lead over Trump is insurmountable, and to voters who may be entirely turned off by this moment in politics.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Childcare is 'infrastructure for families' 05:18Warren and Biden have clashed over economic policy for years, fights that grabbed headlines during the primary and traced back to when she was a professor and he was in the Senate.But on Wednesday night, Warren stepped in to validate Biden proposals going forward.
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