New Jersey Governor Chris Christie blasted Hillary Clinton during his speech. “They heard nothing”, the Times reported, because Melania Trump was uncomfortable with the text, which she began to change.
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On Monday afternoon, after the Republican National Committee put down a last-ditch effort by delegates opposed to Donald Trump, Eric Minor was seething.
Although she said many are “a little disgruntled with him”, her fellow Pennsylvania Republicans still believe they need him in the Senate.
While referring to the Justice Department’s decision to not prosecute Clinton over her private email server, Christie said, “Over the last eight years, we have seen this Administration refuse to hold her accountable for her dismal record as Secretary of State”.
When former presidential candidate hopeful and brain surgeon Ben Carson took the stage on Tuesday, few people were expecting the amount of energy he displayed – namely any.
But in late April, not long before he quit the race, Ted Cruz sent an email to supporters announcing a hotline called the Delegate Defense Hotline, meant to make sure that Republicans who did not support Trump would be safe in Cleveland.
Donald Trump Jr. says his father’s speech Thursday will be about “taking care of America”. But most of their remarks spent more time knocking Clinton than praising their newly minted nominee.
Trump is scheduled to address the convention via remote from NY in the evening, but tweeted shortly after the vote.
“This is a movement”, he declared.
Insulting your presidential opponent is nothing new, of course.
McConnell took the stage next to address the crowd in Cleveland – where there were many empty seats in the arena and on the floor – and was met with a smattering of boos.
Cruz’s team drafted a convention speech focusing on adherence to the Constitution, a calling card for conservatives and a perceived contrast with Trump. Anything you can do in your dreams, you can do now, ‘ ” Spicer said.
For the second night in a row, a successful speech by a family member of Donald Trump was overshadowed by questions of plagiarism. At the beginning, he admitted that the road to the GOP nomination here in Cleveland wasn’t an easy one. “Have we had our arguments this year?” Please leave a detailed message about any issues you’ve faced as well as the best way to reach you and we will be in touch as soon as we can.
“He’s going to run against the establishment in both parties”, she continued.
Ryan delivered an impassioned appeal for party unity, describing Hillary Clinton as a figure from the past and saying, “2016 is the year America moves on”. Since then, Trump campaign officials and surrogates have been busy trying to explain the impropriety away.
Up first was Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s youngest daughter, who has joined her father only rarely on the campaign trail and had never before publicly spoken on behalf of her dad. “In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so amusing and so real”.
“We have gotten off course and the American people know it”, Sessions said in his speech, warning that crime is rising, terrorist attacks are proliferating, and Congress is deadlocked, arguing that Trump is the only answer.
“I don’t think Donald Trump or Melania had anything to do with it”. He had outpaced other Texas presidential candidates who flamed out early – John Connally in 1980, Phil Gramm in 1996, Rick Perry in 2012 and again this time. That look in his eyes, when someone tells him it can’t be done. “For my father, impossible is just the starting point”.
Trump has more than 1,500 delegates, well beyond the 1,237 needed to represent the party in November.
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Using a plagiarism checker, the Washingtonian determined that the likelihood Melania or whoever wrote her speech would come up with the same sequence of words as Michele Obama is somewhere south of one in a trillion.
