One of Hillary Clinton’s biggest problems when she took to the stage last night was who had come before her: Barack Obama gave a belting speech at the Democrat convention, which Freddy Gray said was like a band playing back some of their old hits. The audience lapped it up. And her husband Bill’s number also went down well as he showed off some of his famous charm with his potted biography of Hillary & Bill: The love story. So Hillary was in danger of being upstaged before she even took to the stage. But whilst the Democrat nominee’s speech might not have the fiery rhetoric of the man she wants to replace in the White House – and nor does she have the natural oratory talent of her husband – her address was still clever.
In presenting herself as the unity candidate she was able to put further ground – as if it wasn’t there already – between her and Trump.
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