“If I’m honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our country who need it the most”, she said.
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But on the convention floor Monday, some of the delegates attempted to change the rules.
“He’s tough when he has to be, but he’s also kind and fair and caring”, Ms Trump said, describing her husband as “intensely loyal” to family, friends, employees and the country. “In writing her attractive speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking”, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said.
The Republican National Convention kicked off Monday evening in Cleveland with a slew of speakers highlighting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s agenda. They came near the beginning of her roughly 10-minute speech. her address was otherwise distinct from the address that Mrs. Obama gave when then-Sen.
“I did not take the freedoms this country offers for granted”, she said. And they cast the turbulent times as a direct result of weak leadership by President Barack Obama and Clinton, who spent four years in the administration.
Luttrell praised Donald Trump’s commitment to the military. An earlier attempt to get that clause in the rules was shut down by the convention’s rules committee.
“The majority of our delegates fully support Donald Trump”, spokesman Taylor Mason said.
Introduced by her husband, Mrs. Trump vowed her husband will “never, ever, let you down” – though she acknowledged that the showman’s campaign is likely to produce some “excitement and drama”.
Donald Trump also turned to political allies, reality TV stars and onetime Hollywood actors to make the case for national security, themed “Make America Safe Again”. That would have meant a drawn-out process and could have exposed party divisions.
The incident showed the division in the GOP, but as leaders insisted they can unite the party, at least one North Carolina delegate said he can’t support Trump.
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Roll call is set for Tuesday night as Trump’s name will be read into nomination.
