Lauren Gambino and Madhvi Pankhania have relived the whole 2016 campaign (so you don’t have to) and distilled it to these … let’s say key moments, rather than highlights.
Perhaps your favourite/recurring nightmare is among them:
The nation’s first black president has urged US citizens to send the first woman to the White House in their 240-year history.
As the light emanated from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the building where the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, Barack Obama stood before the people who had braved a chilly Monday night and passed the torch to his preferred successor.
“I’m asking you to vote for this woman, this mother, this grandmother, to be the next president of the United States,” Obama said.
It was the largest event of Clinton’s 18-month campaign, drawing 33,000 inside the square. Obama’s voice reverberated to the surrounding streets from speakers positioned for the thousands who could not gain entry but looked on from outside. All told, an estimated 40,000 had descended upon the area hoping to bear witness to the climax of a gruelling 18-month election cycle.
As the light emanated from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the building where the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, Barack Obama stood before the people who had braved a chilly Monday night and passed the torch to his preferred successor.
“I’m asking you to vote for this woman, this mother, this grandmother, to be the next president of the United States,” Obama said.
It was the largest event of Clinton’s 18-month campaign, drawing 33,000 inside the square. Obama’s voice reverberated to the surrounding streets from speakers positioned for the thousands who could not gain entry but looked on from outside. All told, an estimated 40,000 had descended upon the area hoping to bear witness to the climax of a gruelling 18-month election cycle.
Michelle Obama, who has emerged unexpectedly as Clinton’s most powerful surrogate, implored voters to grasp that presidential elections were “breathtakingly close”.
“Tomorrow, with your vote, you can stand up to those who seek to divide us make us afraid,” the first lady said. “Tomorrow, with your vote, you can say that this country has always been great, that it is the greatest nation on earth.”
But it was unmistakably Clinton’s night. Mounting the podium, she threw up her arms and looked to the skies.
She had inched one step closer to cementing her place in history. To the jubilant supporters savouring the moment, she cautioned them that her fate remained in their hands.
“None of us, none of us,” Clinton said, “want to wake up on Wednesday morning and wish we had done more.”
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