Hillary Clinton Thursday night will be the first woman to accept the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party, capping a historic week in which Democratic leaders made the case that she is the best person to serve as president. In her speech, Clinton will say the U.S. faces a “moment of reckoning.”“Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart,” she says in excerpts of her speech released by her campaign. Clinton’s acceptance comes after President Barack Obama on Wednesday painted a resoundingly optimistic picture of the country and said he was passing the baton of leadership to Clinton. Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also threatened to upend the convention before Sanders himself urged the party to unite behind Clinton and moved to nominate her unanimously by acclimation. Obama also went after GOP nominee Donald Trump, portraying him as uninterested in facts and insulated by a lifetime of not caring about poor people.

Source: Huffington Post July 28, 2016 22:55 UTC