Bill Clinton and Jill Jacobs, Joe Biden's wife who dreams of becoming the first Italian-American first lady, are the stars of the second evening of the dem convention: that of the 'roll call', the appeal of the 57 US states and territories, with their representatives announcing the votes for the official nomination of the presidential candidate before the acceptance scheduled for Thursday. Clinton, who turns 74 on Wednesday, has always been a star at all Democratic conventions since 1988 and still remains very popular but this time he had less than 5 minutes, from his home in Chappaqua, NY. A reduced presence that also seems to reflect the decline in his personal influence and the less harmony of his past center politics in a party that looks increasingly to the left. Someone was even perplexed about playing the Bill card in the #Metoo era, with the tail of the Epstein story, in which a new photo popped up like a time bomb while the former president gets a message around his neck from one of the accusers of the financier.
But his words were effective: "At a time like this the Oval Office should be a command center. Instead it is just a center of storms. There is only chaos. Only one thing never changes: its determination to to deny any responsibility and to pass it on to others ". Then he posed the alternative between Biden and Trump: "Our party is united in offering you a very different choice: a president who goes to work, a simple man, who does what he does. A man with a mission: take responsibility, don't blame, focused, not distracted, uniting, not dividing. Our choice is Joe Biden.
He hasn't disappointed educator Jill, former second lady and now Biden's shadow advisor either. " How is a broken family rebuilt? In the same way a country is rebuilt. With love and understanding, with small acts of empathy.
With courage and with an unshakable faith, "he said.
On the night dedicated to the theme 'leadership matters' (leadership matters), the spotlights also remained on the Hispanic deputy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the passionate leftist who with her 'squad' has so far remained lukewarm towards the Biden-Harris ticket . The young party star had already criticized the hospitality given to former Ohio Republican governor John Kasich, who sided with Biden in an operation to broaden the dem base, recalling that he is a staunch anti-abortionist. And she had already complained that she only had one minute left. Among the speakers also former president Jimmy Carter with his wife Rosalynn and former ambassador Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the iconic Jfk. In front of the virtual audience, also former Secretary of State John Kerry, the leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer and the former attorney general Sally Yates. Meanwhile, the vibrant echo of Michelle Obama's passionate attack on Donald Trump remained in the air, "the wrong president for this country, not up to the challenge", capable of sowing only "chaos, divisions and a total lack of empathy". "It is what it is", "it is what it is", he buried him using his own, highly criticized words when he spoke of the heavy death toll of coronavirus in the US. Never before had a former first lady criticized an incumbent president so harshly and directly, impeaching him in this case for handling the pandemic, the economy and racial protests. "Come back and sit back and watch", was the poisonous response of Trump, who in a flurry of tweets attacked the Obama-Biden administration ("the most corrupt in history"), from the management of swine flu to " espionage "of his campaign in 2016. Although today a Senate report on Russiagate, the first bipartisan, confirmed the findings of the investigation by super-prosecutor Robert Mueller that the Russian government launched an extensive campaign four years ago to sabotaging the elections and winning the tycoon, while some of his advisors remained open to Moscow's help, although there was no coordinated conspiracy. "Please someone explain to Michelle Obama that I would not be here, in the wonderful White House, if it weren't for the job her husband did", the president urged, sarcastically thanking the former first lady "for your kind words". before boasting its alleged successes in the economy and in the fight against the pandemic. Michelle's intervention mobilizes above all the female electorate, in addition to that of minorities. Hence, Trump, in turn to ingratiate himself with women, announced the posthumous pardon of Susan Anthony, a civil rights activist and pioneer arrested in 1872 in her battle for the right to vote for women in the United States: a gesture that comes in occasion of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, the one that guaranteed women's suffrage at the federal level and which could now change the fate of the November elections.