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Hillary Clinton is to be first woman to run for president

Hillary Clinton is to be first woman to run for president

Posted July. 25, 2016 07:04,   

Updated July. 25, 2016 07:17

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The Democratic National Convention (DNC), which will formally nominate former State Secretary Hillary Clinton (aged 69) as America’s first female presidential candidate, will begin on Monday (local time) at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center for four days. When she is officially nominated as a presidential hopeful on Tuesday and finishes her acceptance speech on Thursday, the presidential election race of the century where the very first female presidential candidate will fight against Donald Trump who is described as Washington’s outsider will being in full swing.

The Democratic National Convention seems to be recorded as a political event that is as historic as the Republican National Convention which nominated Donald Trump as the party’s presidential hopeful last week. Attention has been paid what plan the first female presidential hopeful will suggest to break through her final “glass-ceiling” to move to the White House.

Unlike the Republican National Convention where “Americanism” that puts America’s interests first was declared, the democratic coronation of Clinton appears to focus on presenting the message of harmony and progress. Bernie Sanders who was Clinton’s fiercest primary rival will be a headline speaker on the first day of the convention.

President Barack Obama who used be previous rival against Clinton eight years ago will also make a speech along with Clinton’s husband and former president Bill Clinton and her only daughter Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of Clinton Foundation. While the republican convention was an event of the Trumps without political tycoons from the Republican Party, the democratic convention seems to be a venue of harmony where the party leadership gathers all together.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton selected Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate on Friday.



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