The impact of the 2016 DNC speech was left on the first night of the convention. According to Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post (2016), there were more than 28 hours of live programming over the four days of the Democratic National Convention. Even though, the first lady’s speech came on the first night of the convention, “it held the championship belt against all other for the next three days’’ (Cillizza, 2016). She stood alone amongst the best of the politicians in the Democratic Party as the one who excelled the brightest which left her one question to answer. What does the first lady want to do next? Is it in the elected office or outside?
There were several supporters out there for the first lady. According to a recent Gallup poll, she has a favorable rating of 64 percent of popularity compared to President Obama and President-elect Trump. “Hours after Donald Trump was elected president, Hillary Clinton …show more content…
The speech also gave women nationwide the best present they could have wished for and that was a master class in how to stand up for a woman in public.
The 2016 Democratic National Convention was probably the most rhetorical of them all, but it was more than just a rhetorical achievement, Obama invoked the decades-old sexist criticisms. She came to the defense of Hillary Clinton by saying that Clinton will not only challenge the criticism, but she will turn them into some of her most impressive authorizations for president yet.
In the opening of the speech, Obama built a theme that the Clinton operation needed to push because Trump was setting bad examples for our children. “With every word, we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models….” As a mother, you would not want your children hearing the bad things that were being said about woman from an outrageous