His tie was a tribute to Jerry Garcia, the late Grateful Dead singer, and is named "Green Landscape." "Perfect," Karpinski said. "And more than just deny it, his policies would make climate change worse."īefore his address, Karpinski shared a detail about his wardrobe. Yet Donald Trump calls it - and I quote - a 'hoax,'" Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters, said in an address to delegates yesterday. The lineup also touched on the issue of addressing rising temperatures, a theme that was weaved throughout the convention. The convention, held at the Wells Fargo Center, a professional basketball arena in the southern outskirts of the city, included appearances last night by celebrities Katy Perry, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sheila E., and Carole King. The Democratic National Convention elevated climate change on the party's list of electoral priorities, a move that's meant to energize progressive voters while casting shadows on Trump's judgment related to science and the environment. The four-day convention propels Clinton into the final stretch of a presidential race that's featuring emotional issues like immigration, crime and income inequality. "I'm voting for the progressive who will protect our planet from climate change and our communities from gun violence, who will reform our criminal justice system, and who believes that women's rights are human rights, and LGBT rights are human rights," Chelsea Clinton said. She also sought to repair disunity between the liberal and moderate wings of the party. Moments before Clinton spoke, her daughter, Chelsea, made an appeal to the audience to see her mother in personal terms. Happy for boys and men, too - because when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone." "Standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come," she said, "happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. But she also embraced the historic moment created by her nomination. "I believe that when we have millions of hardworking immigrants contributing to our economy, it would be self-defeating and inhumane to kick them out."Ĭlinton delivered a populist and inclusive message with promises to make job creation her top priority. "I believe that climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs," Clinton said. She also confronted Trump's assertion that he would repeal the Paris climate agreement, by saying she's "proud" of the United States' participation in the pact finalized last December. Referring to Trump's comments questioning the presence of climate change, she said, "And I believe in science," prompting an eruption of applause. "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons," Clinton said. history.Ĭlinton challenged rival Donald Trump on his honesty, temperament and empathy in the pointed speech to an unbridled audience that waved American flags and chanted "Hillary, Hillary, Hillary." She also described a nation in pain, with too much poverty and unemployment, while promising to fight for disaffected workers, maligned immigrants and underpaid women. PHILADELPHIA - Hillary Clinton raced into a sharpening phase of her campaign last night by appealing to anxious Americans in hardscrabble coal towns and Texas borderlands, in the first address by a female major-party nominee for president in U.S.
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