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Bill Clinton backs ‘best friend’ Hillary to lead US

Manzurul Alam Mukul || risingbd.com

Published: 04:43, 27 July 2016   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Bill Clinton backs ‘best friend’ Hillary to lead US

Risingbd Desk: Former US president Bill Clinton has set out the case why his wife and ‘best friend’ Hillary should lead the nation.


He told the Democratic convention in Philadelphia that she was the ‘best darn change-maker I`ve ever known’.


In a very personal speech, he spoke warmly about how they met and her dedication to public service.


Hours earlier, his wife became the first woman to be officially nominated for president by any major US party.


"I married my best friend," Mr Clinton said after explaining the story of how they met at Yale Law School in the spring of 1971.


"We`ve been walking and talking and laughing together ever since." he added.


The former secretary of state and first lady was uniquely qualified to be president, he said.


"Hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of public service by private citizens," he said before recounting her early career.


Mrs Clinton passed the 2,382 delegates needed to claim the nomination after South Dakota announced its delegate vote count.


In a symbolic gesture of party unity, former Democratic rival Senator Bernie Sanders took the microphone to move to suspend the procedural rules and declare Mrs Clinton as the nominee by acclamation.


Members of the crowd erupted into cheers and held up Clinton signs.


Source: BBC


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