Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton for US presidency

Risingbd Desk: The Democratic Party has made history by nominating Hillary Clinton to run for US president as the first woman to head a major party`s presidential ticket.

Delegates erupted in cheers throughout the roll call of states on the floor of the Democratic convention on Tuesday night.
In nominating Clinton, delegate after delegate at the convention made the point that the selection of a woman was a milestone in America`s 240-year-old history. US women got the right to vote in 1920.

Clinton promises to tackle income inequality and rein in Wall Street if she becomes president, and is eager to portray Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman and former reality TV show host, as too unstable to sit in the Oval Office.

Trump, who has never held elective office, got a boost in opinion polls from his nomination at the Republican convention last week and had a 2-point lead over Clinton in a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.

After the roll call of states formalising Clinton`s nomination, former President Bill Clinton took the stage for a history-making appearance of his own at the Democratic National Convention. Former presidents often vouch for their potential successors, but never before has that candidate also been a spouse.

Telling the story of their life together, the former president summed up his wife: "She`s the best darn change maker I`ve ever met."

Source: Agencies

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