Hillary Clinton Takes the Democratic Nomination

Last week, the Republican party painted Cleveland Red and officially nominated Donald Trump as their presidential nominee. This week, Democrats flocked to Philly to say yes to Hillary Clinton being their presidential nominee.

The DNC created a star-studded line up from elected officials to Hollywood A-listers such as Meryl Streep; making the RNC speaker list looked like a police line up with all the wrong suspects. For the Democrats, the road to Philadelphia looked like a cake walk compared to the GOP presidential trail which resembled more of a ninja warrior obstacle course.  With only a handful of candidates to begin with Hillary elbowed her way to the top of the ballot, and on Tuesday night Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination and become the first woman to every top a major party’s presidential ticket. Hillary broke the digital glass ceiling as she accepted the nomination via satellite from her home in New York.

Hillary’s acceptance speech was a stark contrast from Trump’s doom and gloom forecast of America without him at the helm. However, with just a little of 100 days until November 8th, the work for Hillary Clinton has just begun. Hillary is a polarizing candidate and even with a post convention bump, the race to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will be close.

Clinton will have to work to shake off some serious issues plaguing her campaign such as her email scandal and the DNC hack, but luckily for Clinton, she is no stranger to scandals. However, the elephant in the room (or rather the donkey) in Philly was if Bernie Sanders and his supporters would accept the losing the nomination or cause problems in the city of brotherly love.

In a gracious speech, Sanders told his supporters, “it’s time to support Hillary Clinton now.” Even though Bernie Sanders accepted defeat and did what even Ted Cruz could not do last week, and endorsed behind Hillary Clinton his delegates were not having it. Sanders delegates staged a massive protest by walking out after Hillary’s nomination and vowed to leave the Democratic party in protest.

With Bernie supporters saying #NeverHillary and #NeverTrump, voter turnout has the potential to be low, especially among Millennials who were #FeelingtheBern. The Millennial vote, which has the potential to determine the outcome of 2016, has its own hurdles to cross before showing up to the voting booth on November 8th. Sanders supporters made it clear on Tuesday they have become displaced in the presidential election and refuse to vote for either Hillary or Trump.

Nevertheless, Hillary has not come this far to let it all slip through her fingers. As the Democratic Convention winds down watch for Hillary to hit the ground hard to focus on women, Hispanic, and African American voters. After all, what good is cracking the glass ceiling if you don’t plan on busting through?