Clinton accepts nomination, slams Trump

Hillary Clinton on Thursday claimed her place in history as she became the first woman presidential nominee of a major US party, promising economic opportunity for all and rejecting Donald Trump’s dark picture of America.


The former secretary of state, her hand on her heart, received ecstatic cheers from thousands of delegates as she strode into the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and then pledged to be a president for “all Americans.”

The 68-year-old Clinton, needing to connect with voters in her biggest moment on the national stage, took aim at her Republican opponent, slamming him as a fear-monger with no policy credibility.

Clinton repeated the convention’s theme of “stronger together,” declaring that her lifelong goal has been to ensure that Americans can use their talent and ambition to help make the nation stronger.

“And so it is with humility, determination, and boundless confidence in America’s promise, that I accept your nomination for president of the United States,” she said.

“Herstory,” read a handwritten sign held up by a delegate.

Clinton’s moment in the spotlight came eight years later than she might have hoped — in her first White House campaign, she was defeated in 2008 in her party’s primary race by Barack Obama.

In an hour-long primetime address, she laid out plans to improve the US economy, stressing that “my primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages.”

Her efforts will focus particularly on places “that for too long have been left out and left behind, from our inner cities to our small towns, Indian Country to Coal Country,” she said.

And in a bold admission for a candidate seeking in large part to build on Obama’s policies, she said the economy “is not yet working the way it should.”

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