“If any of you are looking for that party of Lincoln, we’ve got a home for you right here in the Democratic Party,” the Virginia senator said. And Trump has no corollary, since he has been shunned by well-known members of the Republican Party even as he has taken over as its leader. It is a strategy that the Clinton campaign will have to employ for months if she is to win in November. But they also, to a person, embraced an optimistic vision of a country that, as Obama said, Trump casts as a crime-ridden chasm. “Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump said on Wednesday.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 28, 2016 10:01 UTC