He led efforts to successfully tamp down a rebellion on the convention floor Monday, though the campaign still had to contend with angry outbursts from anti-Trump delegates.
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Jobs and the economy weren’t entirely absent from the speeches.
(AP Photo/John Locher). Dana White, President of Ultimate Fighting Championship, speaks during the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Tuesday, July 19, 2016.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky took a personal approach.
Donald Trump Jr., his eldest son and an executive vice president at The Trump Organization, cited his father’s business acumen and said his father approaches business projects the same way he has approached his campaign and life in general.
Trump’s campaign hoped the formal nomination would both end the discord surging through the Republican Party and overshadow the convention’s chaotic kickoff, including a plagiarism charge involving Melania Trump’s address on opening night. Two passages from Mrs. Trump’s address – each 30 words or longer – matched a 2008 Democratic convention address by Michelle Obama almost word-for-word. I mean you want to talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
CLEVELAND Similarities between the speech delivered by Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, and remarks by first lady Michelle Obama in 2008 stole the spotlight at the Republican convention on Tuesday, a day Trump’s campaign had hoped to devote to the US economy. The statement didn’t mention Mrs. Obama. “She lied about Benghazi”, McConnell said.
While Tiffany ( Trump’s child with his second wife, Marla Maples ) told anecdotes about her father, Donald Jr. got more political during a speech that many praised. Those notes found themselves into the final draft, she said.
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday asked American voters to make sure that her rival Donald Trump would never set his foot in the Oval Office of the White House, hours after the controversial billi onaire was endorsed by the Republican party to be its presidential nominee. Entertainers who took the stage included actor Scott Baio and Willie Robertson, star of Duck Dynasty.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, the top US elected Republican, was to formally put Trump’s name forward later on Tuesday to be the party’s presidential nominee for the November 8 election.
“This is a question brought up by all the delegates at the convention”. Each time, delegates are responded with boisterous chants of “guilty”. Some dissident delegates are planning to insist on abstaining or backing candidates they weren’t assigned to during the roll call vote.
Adding, “Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump is a fighter and I know he will fight for this country”.
He said firing civil servants was “cumbersome” and “time-consuming”.
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Portraits of the softer side of Trump, however, have been fleeting moments in a convention with a clear, hard edge. No major clashes were reported between pro- and anti-Trump forces during the two biggest demonstrations on Monday’s schedule or at rallies held in the later afternoon and early evening.
