Editor’s note: Below is a transcript of CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley’s response to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention last night. What did you think?
COOPER: Candy Crowley, who has been watching that speech, listening in from the platform. Candy from your perspective, you’ve seen a lot of Hillary Clinton speeches.
CROWLEY: Absolutely. And what I’ve seen over the time as I started to cover her presidential race, which was last January or the January before last in 2007, is that this is a woman who delivers when she needs to. She is a clutch player. And she certainly seemed to do that tonight.
You saw from the reaction in the crowd, this wasn’t just — I sort of expected it would be, well, here are the Hillary Clinton supporters, you can tell by that clapping. It was this whole crowd that she had on their feet, mostly for the entire time.
What did they say she was going to do when we talked to them? They said she was going to hit John McCain. Check. They said she was going to reach out to her supporters and thank them for what was a historic race. Check. They said that she would call for unity of the party to firmly back Barack Obama and challenge her supporters to look at what the choice is. Check.
They did everything that they said she would do.
I think in camp Obama tonight, they will be very pleased and I think it puts a lot of pressure on Barack Obama for Thursday night. I think he has to respond in kind in some way to make that unity hold.
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