For more than a year now, across thousands of miles and all 50 states, tens of millions of Americans have made their voices heard. Today, I just want to add mine. I want to congratulate Hillary Clinton on making history as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States.He then congratulated Senator Sanders and his followers saying they had brought important issues to the forefront of the campaign and expressed confidence that the party was going to come together to defeat the Republicans. According to the latest NBC/WSJ poll, 82% of Sanders voters approve of President Obama so his words about unity will undoubtedly carry some weight.
Look, I know how hard this job can be. That’s why I know Hillary will be so good at it. In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office. She’s got the courage, the compassion, and the heart to get the job done. And I say that as someone who had to debate her more than 20 times. Even after our own hard-fought campaign, in a testament to her character she agreed to serve our country as secretary of state.From the decision we made in the situation room to get Bin Laden, to our pursuit of diplomacy in capitals around the world, I have seen her judgement, I’ve seen her toughness, I’ve seen her commitment to our values up close. I’ve seen her determination to give every American a fair shot at opportunity, no matter how tough the fight was. That’s what has always driven her. And it still does. So I want those of you who have been with me from the beginning of this incredible journey to be the first to know that I’m with her. I am fired up, and I cannot wait to get out there and campaign.
Hillary Clinton won. And she won because she’s a fighter, she’s out there, she’s tough. And I think this is what we need. Look at who she is: For 25 years, she’s been taking the incoming. The right wing has thrown everything they possibly can at her. And what does she do? A lot of people would just hang up their spurs, say you know, I’ve had enough of this. And she doesn’t. What she’s done is she gets back up and she gets back in the fight.
As a Democrat, one of the things that frustrates me the most is there are a lot of times we don’t get in the fight. … You ought to be willing to throw a punch. And there are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn’t know how to throw a punch.Warren is one of the most popular Democrats in the country and is widely being discussed as a possible VP choice, which would electrify the party. She too promises to be out on the trail stumping for Clinton and other Democrats. If her speech to the American Constitution Society last night is any example, it's going to be exciting. Here's a little taste:
Trump tells everyone who will listen that he’s a great businessman, but let’s be honest — he’s just a guy who inherited a fortune and kept it rolling along by cheating people.
When that’s your business model, sooner or later you’re probably going to run into legal trouble. And Donald Trump has run into a lot of legal trouble. Ah, yes — Trump University, which his own former employees refer to as one big “fraudulent scheme.”That's just for starters. Warren has a way of getting under Trump's thin skin and she seems to really enjoy it. She'll be drawing his fire for the next five months and giving it right back.
I find Donald Trump's conduct in this regard reprehensible, evidenced by the bipartisan condemnation of the action for what it is: a dangerous attack on a vital pillar of democracy, the independent judiciary, by threats of intimidation and undercutting the legitimacy of a judge by suggesting that because of his heritage he is incapable of being fair.Michelle Obama will undoubtedly be stumping for Democrats and giving more of the same sharp criticism of Trump and the Republicans as she did at her recent commencement speech address:
"In addition to this, it is racist. But it's not the racism that frightens me. We've dealt with racists before. It's the potential impact on the court.
Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears, we don’t build up walls to keep people out, because we know that our greatness has always depending on contributions from people who were born elsewhere but sought out this country and made it their home.Needless to say, former President Bill Clinton whose surrogacy for Obama in 2012 has been widely considered to be tremendously effective,will continue to be out there making the case for Hillary. His speech at the convention that year was masterful and he remains very popular among the Democratic rank and file.