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‘City of Roses’
Volume XLV
Number 30
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Wednesday • July 27, 2016
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Delegates cheer during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (AP photo)
A glass ceiling shattered at the
Democratic National Conven-
tion as Hillary Clinton ascended
to the presidential nomination
with Tuesday’s roll call of the
states, the first woman to lead a
major party into a White House
race.
Clinton now heads to the No-
vember General Election in a
campaign for president that was
briefly interrupted in 2008. Back
then, she conceded the Demo-
cratic presidential race to Barack
Obama in a speech that lamented
“we weren’t able to shatter that
highest, hardest glass ceiling this
time,” but she added proudly,
“it’s got about 18 million cracks
in it,” a tally of her primary
Clinton Ascends
Hillary makes history with nomination
votes.
Bernie Sanders robustly em-
braced his former rival Monday
night as a champion for the same
causes that enlivened his sup-
porters, signaling it was time for
them, too, to rally behind her in
the campaign against Republi-
can Donald Trump.
“Any objective observer will
conclude that — based on her
ideas and her leadership — Hil-
lary Clinton must become the
next president of the United
States,” he declared in a headlin-
ing address on the opening night
of the Democratic convention.
Sanders joined a high-wattage
lineup of speakers, including first
lady Michelle Obama who made
a forceful, impassioned case for
the Democratic nominee. Mrs.
Obama’s address all but wiped
away earlier tumult in the con-
vention hall that had exposed lin-
gering tensions between Clinton
and Sanders supporters.
Mrs. Obama, who has spent
nearly eight years in the White
House avoiding political fights,
took numerous swipes at Trump,
all while avoiding mentioning
him by name.
“This election and every elec-
tion is about who will have the
power to shape our children for
the next four or eight years of
their lives,” she said. “There is
only one person I trust with that
responsibility, only one person
I believe is truly qualified to be
president of the United States,
and that is Hillary Clinton.”
While Sanders had endorsed
Clinton previously, his remarks
Monday marked his most vig-
orous and detailed praise of her
qualifications for the presidency.
It came at a crucial moment for
Clinton’s campaign, on the heels
of leaked emails suggesting the
party had favored the former
secretary of state through the
primaries despite a vow of neu-
trality.
--Associated Press