“Or we can go for Donald Trump: a man doing this from the goodness of his heart and genuinely wants to help; a man who knows how to get things done, and a man who says what he means and means what he says”.
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It is unlikely the rules package would have been rejected in a roll call vote, but a Trump staffer said its war room anticipated it could receive roughly 600 votes – well short of the 1,237 votes needed – which would be a strong protest vote.
The afternoon furor erupted when Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack, who was serving as convention chair, put the rules for the convention to a voice vote, and amid a chorus of boos and cheers from anti-Trump supporters declared those in favor of the motion had prevailed, while apparently ignoring objections from several state delegations on the cacophonous floor of the convention. For example, Paul Manafort, Trump’s top aide, said Monday morning that Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is not attending the convention, is “embarrassing his party in Ohio”.
Most to Texas’ delegates are now pleaded to Senator Ted Cruz, but are expected to be awarded to Donald Trump on Thursday.
The theme for the first day will be Make America Safe Again, according to the RNC’s official website. The mother of one of the victims choked back tears as she personally blamed Clinton for her son’s death and accused her of giving a false explanation for the attack.
She was said to have spent weeks rehearsing the speech which she delivered flawlessly in accented English.
“What happened to ‘there’s no black America, there’s no white America, there is just America?'” he said, alluding to comments once made by President Barack Obama.
Trump backers and protesters have been out in force on the first day of the Republican convention, but no major clashes have been reported so far.
The convention’s opening night had a high note as Mrs. Trump spoke on behalf of her husband. I blame Hillary Clinton, ” Smith said. She also took a moment to honor Sen. She is the second to last speaker in a series of speeches that were scheduled to start at 7:50 p.m. A live stream of the event can be seen here.
Clinton, during remarks Monday at the NAACP’s annual convention, said there was no justification for directing violence at law enforcement.
Mrs. Trump’s speech was part of a four-day campaign to show the softer side of the tough-talking showman.
Leading up to this point came those five stages of grief. Mr. King, a Cleveland native, will not take the stage.
Melania Trump’s parents now have a nice house in Sevnica, but her father’s mechanic said that Viktor Knavs has been troubled by his son-in-law’s inconsistency.
Making the vote a drawn-out process instead of a foregone conclusion could have reflected negatively on Trump’s goals of unifying the party as prime time TV coverage of the convention began.
Even some of those participating in the convention seemed to be avoiding their party’s nominee.
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Milo Yiannopoulos, an openly gay conservative reporter for Breitbart News, stood before the crowd of about 100 and proclaimed that Trump was the best candidate for LGBT people.
