From abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Hello, again. After another wild week in the race for the white house, it began with more big wins for donald trump. At least three states on tuesday. The most delegates by far. Moving him much closer to the republican nomination. As his campaign marches toward cleveland, he draws more protests, too. Check out this scene from arizona yesterday. The road to a trump rally blocked. And new questions overnight about how trump and his supporters are dealing with the protests. In tucson, this protester punched and kicked as he was led away by police. A guy grabbed the sign out of my hand. As i was being escorted out of the building. And suckerpunched me. And in this video from cnn, Trump Campaign manager Cory Lewandowski appears to grab the collar of a protester. Who is also being pulled back by a member of trumps private security team. A lot to talk about this morning with donald trump. He joins us now by phone. Tha
And other crucial battleground states, not because large numbers of democrats defected to the Republican Party. No, they believe they lost because large numbers of democrats just didnt vote at all. A very warm welcome to bbc world news. In an hour the Democratic Party in the United States will hold the third evening of its Virtual National convention. Tonight it will be the turn of former president barack obama and the Vice President ial pick Kamala Harris, to try to persuade voters to backjoe biden over president trump. Laura trevelyan is in wilmington, delaware for us. Speu spell out the formats tonight for us, laura, who comes first . What are we going to get . Well, it is womens night tonight at the Democratic National convention, christian. The house speaker, nancy pelosi is going to speak, the lion of the progressive left, Elizabeth Warren herself a contenderfor the democratic nomination. She is going to speak stop we will hear from is going to speak stop we will hearfrom hillary
President himself lost her job as u. S. Ambassador because of it starts thank you, thank you my friends, thank you. It. Her career is now over too. We have lost. She is now retired and gone from we have lost and this is the last day of my political career. The state department, and it is so i will say what must be said. Not hard to see why given what we are standing at the edged of they unleashed on her after her the abyss. Testimony. Ambassador bill taylor who was our political, our society, our called out of retirement as country itself are in greater basically a favor to fill in for danger than at any time in the her in ukraine, he made the mistake of testifying too. Last srcentury and a half. The president elect has made his hes been yanked out of that post as well. Intentionings clear and it would even the ones who might have be immoral to pretend oersz. Thought they had some trump insurance, ambassador john we must band together right now to defend the laws, the bolton, trump app
And i will warn you, this is a little dark. It is a little stark. But given that she wrote this basically hours after election night, it also feels oddly prescient just a few years down the road now. So heres the alternate concession speech for Hillary Clinton as imagined by masha gessen. It starts, thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you. We have lost. We have lost, and this is the last day of my political career. So i will say what must be said. We are standing at the edge of the abyss. Our political system, our society, our country itself are in greeter danger than at any time in the last century and a half. The president elect has made his intentions clear, and it would be immoral to pretend otherwise. We must band together right now to defend the laws, the institutio institutions, and the ideals on which our country is based. Thats not what Hillary Clinton said on election night. But the week of the 2016 election journalist masha gessen, who had spent most of her life in russi
August and sipt, but the order was reversed from this year in 2008, the democrats went first. Democrats held their big nominating convention for barack obama and joe biden in denver. You might remember it culminated with that big speech in that huge arena in denver where barack obama spoke on than set with the big theatrical columns. It was very dramatic. The republicans that year in 2008, they made a Bold Decision that they would take advantage of the fact that the democrats were going first and they would take advantage of the fact that the conventions were so late that year. So the momentum coming out of the conventions was going to be really important for the general election. Because of those two factors they decided to do something very bold. They decided in 2008 that one day after the Democratic Convention was over, the very next day, john mccain would name his Vice President ial running mate. They didnt name the person who was going to run with mccain till after the democrats h