Concession Speech Analysis

Hillary Clinton's Concession Speech was filled with a ton of emotion. It was definitely one of her better speeches. She looked good. This was a concession speech, she was conceding in the presidential race to Donald Trump. She did a good job explaining that we as a nation have to accept and support our new president. She reiterated that it is important to stay connected and humble as a nation in order to accept this new national leader.

In her ability to speak and present she, like all politicians, did well. This is what she had been groomed for. Her eye contact, voice fluctuations and even her facial expressions seemed to be in order and work well with her speech. A few things she should work on is her body language. She still seems stiff and “robotic” like most of the anti-Hillary supporters like to point out. She needs to be more fluid and maybe ad some hand gestures and other expressions that seem to present her as rehearsed act, than someone really speaking from the heart like she should be during this speech. I mean she lost but still seems to present little emotion.

Throughout her speech she seemed to try and keep an optimistic point of view when looking to the future. She did an excellent job including as many, groups of people (LGBT, minority groups, income class) in her speech in order to hit home with as many people, not just her own followers, but everyone. She really tried to pull everyone together in order to push us as a nation into the future of becoming a better country.

It was also nice that she thanked all the people that helped her during this campaign, it’s true that she could not have done it all on her own, but it was just comforting for her to share that her family really helped her out during her times of need. It helped her sense of appeal for me at least and that kind of helped her seem as if she did have emotions, she just did well at hiding them.

I personally think she should have spoken more about her Trump and how we should all come to accept that he is our new president. She did touch on this subject a little during her speech, but I feel as if she should have stayed on this topic longer and really elaborate on what it us “accepting” Trump should look like or at least give her own personal stake of how she plans to start supporting Trump. Maybe explain how she plans to even back him up or figure how she can help ease his transition into the White House or even how she can help after he has settled in. This would have been a show of real character, to accept the loss and move forward positively and help her opponent. This would have hit home more with her followers who in turn could have turned around and started to show some support and optimism instead of starting protests and anti-Trump campaigns.