Usually, presidential candidates get a bounce in the polls from their own conventions, but if the day one debacle at the RNC convention is any indication, Hillary Clinton may get a boost in the polls from both the Republican and Democratic conventions.
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And they cheered when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California opened his speech by declaring just how many days the president had left in the White House.
“My dad is a natural born encourager, the last person to ever tell you to lower your sights”, she said. “This whole thing disgusts me, Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason”.
The crowd in turn chanted in unison, “Lock her up, lock her up”.
He was referencing an answer Hillary Clinton gave during a Senate committee hearing, but she wasn’t saying that the lives lost in Benghazi didn’t matter.
After delivering a 60-second opener full of praise of Donald Trump, Christie moved to prosecute a case against Clinton’s “dismal record” as secretary of state.
Donald Trump Jr., meanwhile, emphatically touched on a range of issues touting the Republican nominee in a wide-ranging stump speech that emphasized his father’s bona fides with working-class voters and again attacked Clinton over the email scandal.
After hitting Trump for advocating for a return to torture and killing the families of terrorists, Clinton said: “What he has laid out is the most unsafe, reckless approach to being president than I think we’ve ever seen”.
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Clinton made no mention of allegations that Trump’s wife, Melania, plagiarized part of remarks but said she heard plenty of criticism about her and President Barack Obama. He was the 2012 convention’s keynote speaker when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was nominated for president. At 26.2 percent, officers were more inclined to vote for Clinton than enlisted personnel at nearly 17.4 percent. An Associated Press-GfK poll this month found that three-quarters of voters say their pick for president is motivated by a desire to cast their ballot against Clinton or Trump.
