Clinton dismisses ‘surreal’ Republican national convention

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Hillary Clinton has dismissed the first day of the Republican National Convention as a &&num;8220&semi;surreal&&num;8221&semi; experience &&num;8211&semi; and compared the gathering led by Donald Trump to the classic fantasy film The Wizard of Oz&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The presumptive Democratic presidential hopeful told an audience of 6&comma;000 people in Las Vegas&colon; &&num;8220&semi;There were similarities that appeared to me&period; Lots of sound and fury &&num;8211&semi; even a fog machine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;But when you pull back the curtain&comma; it was just Donald Trump with nothing to offer to the American people&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s comments came as Republicans meet in Cleveland for the second day of their national convention&comma; where delegates are expected to officially select Mr Trump as their party&&num;8217&semi;s nominee for the autumn election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to long-standing Democratic allies&comma; Mrs Clinton noted Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s shadowy appearance before he introduced his wife&comma; Melania Trump&comma; but made no mention of allegations that she lifted passages of her speech from first lady Michelle Obama&&num;8217&semi;s 2008 address&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton noted that viewers heard a lot about Mrs Trump and her husband&comma; but &&num;8220&semi;not a single solution&&num;8221&semi; that would help workers and their families&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The former secretary of state was addressing 6&comma;000 members of AFSCME&comma; a union representing 1&period;6 million public sector workers which endorsed Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s presidential tilt last October&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She pointed to ongoing struggles with Republican governors in the American Midwest&comma; accusing Wisconsin governor Scott Walker&comma; a former Republican presidential hopeful&comma; of ripping &&num;8220&semi;the heart out of public sector workers&&num;8217&semi; right to bargain&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Illinois&comma; she accused governor Bruce Rauner&comma; a Republican elected in 2014&comma; of &&num;8220&semi;holding the budget hostage for months&&num;8221&semi;&comma; hurting families and demanding &&num;8220&semi;outrageous concessions&&num;8221&semi; to fix a multibillion-dollar deficit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She also warned that Donald Trump would undercut the Dodd-Frank Act passed six years ago this week by US Congress in response to the financial crisis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton said that Mr Trump wanted to &&num;8220&semi;tear up Dodd-Frank and let Wall Street run wild again&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed1200a61f6">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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