Ted Cruz will leave “no doubt” he wants Mr. Trump to be president in his address to the Republican National Convention, though he hadn’t yet seen Mr. Cruz’s planned remarks. Washington, D.C.’s 10 votes for Rubio and 9 for Kasich-which the two former candidates earned during the district’s primary vote-were forced over to Team Trump. By the time every delegate was counted, he had more than 1,600.
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Donald TrumpDonald TrumpGOP works to unify around Trump Trump speechwriter shoots down new plagiarism claim Senator on Trump endorsement: “Don’t worry about the words” MORE’s children are going to bat for their dad, taking the stage at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday to make a public push for the official GOP White House nominee.
Donald Trump’s son Don Jr. and daughter Tiffany probably account for the bulk of the business talk. The event will now be held at Hofstra University in NY.
What do you say to your colleagues, such as the speaker, the most senior republican in congress, speaker Paul Ryan, what do you say to him when he says we should support Trump, because it is either that or Hillary?
Some of them are anxious about the impact Trump could have on the party but want to be good soldiers for the GOP or are motivated by their opposition to Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said Heather Olsen, the former chair of the Prince George’s County Republican Central Committee. But after the delegates made their statement, the secretary reiterated that all 40 of the state’s votes would go to Trump. Jeff Sessions, an early supporter of Trump who echoed many convention speakers’ messages about a United States in decline before suggesting – as the nominee has – that Trump is the only one who can fix it.
“With your vote today, this stage of the presidential process has come to a close”. And I don’t want to legitimise that, I don’t want the Republican Party to be seen as a party who actually wants to ban one billion people from coming to the country due to their faith. “This is a movement and we have to go all the way”.
Mr Trump’s campaign hoped the formal nomination would end the dissent surging through the party and overshadow the convention’s chaotic start, including a plagiarism charge involving Melania Trump’s address on opening night.
On the convention floor here inside Quicken Loans Arena, the roll-call vote was largely uneventful as the state delegations, in alphabetical sequence, stood one by one to announce their delegate-allocation totals.
Mrs. Trump’s star turn at the Republican National Convention Monday night captivated a GOP crowd that had rarely heard from the wife of Donald Trump.
And “Utah has its priorities straight”, a delegate introduced the chair of the Republican party of Utah, who pledged loyalty to Trump. While the Trump campaign and others dismissed it as a fabricated controversy, a number of elected Republicans offered carefully worded speeches from the podium that avoided the topic.
Donald jr painted his father both as a doting family man and a hard-nosed businessman, recalling him “teaching his granddaughter how to swing a golf club or tackling the toughest negotiations”.
“In our discussions with the Trump tax leaders, they love what we’re doing, they’re redesigning and coming out with version 2.0 of their tax plan – I think there are going to be a ton of similarities”, he said.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, two other former 2016 GOP presidential candidates, spoke Tuesday evening.
“Let’s do something fun tonight”. He also tried to blame Hillary Clinton.
The presidential candidate has also repeatedly blamed the recent terrorist attacks on current president Barack Obama. They not only did that, but interrupted him with shouts of “Lock her up”.
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Paul Ryan, in his address to the convention, called on Republicans to unify around the nominee he took months to endorse.
