1 – The number of the day The number of times Cruz mentioned Trump in his speech – he only just congratulated him on winning the Republican presidential nomination. Trump supporters in the arena interpreted those lines as a direct snub of their candidate. And yet – after meticulously laying out the case against another 4 to 8 years of leftist tyranny – he refused to endorse the one man who can put an end to our long national nightmare. He also asserted that he could unite a divided country in a way that President Obama has not.
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“This is somebody who’s able to articulate a vision of how we’re going to make America safe”.
In an interview on Fox News, he insisted that Trump would stand by USA allies despite the remarks, but he added that “those countries must pay their fair share”. “Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims”.
Those divisions were evident Wednesday when Ted Cruz, Trump’s former rival, was booed when he told supporters to vote their conscience instead of telling them to back Trump.
As soon as he is inaugurated, he proclaimed, “Safety will be restored”. But the big headlines could be made before Trump even takes the stage.
He read from a teleprompter during the remarks, as he has done on several other occasions. But his prepared remarks contained no mention of Cruz and didn’t include a reference to forcing Mexico to pay for a wall along the USA southern boarder.
Trump blames Clinton’s “bad instincts and her bad judgment” for causing “many of the disasters unfolding today”. But she asked: Where will he pick up new voters, and new states, that Obama won in 2012?
“It is so important to come together and defeat Hillary Clinton and those race-baiting democrats”, he said.
Many people were hoping that Trump would break the mold and produce a new kind of convention spectacle.
“Whether you are gay, or straight, the Bill of Rights protects the rights of all of us to live according to our conscience”, he said to cheers, everyone knowing what he really meant.
“A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes”. The Republican presidential nominee addresses this convention, and the nation, tonight. He promised Trump would “secure our borders” but he left out Cruz’s embrace of the wall.
“Iraq is in chaos”, Trump planned to say. Syria is engulfed in a civil war and a refugee crisis that now threatens the West.
“As far as I’m concerned, the laws of the land on treason could be firing squad if she’s found guilty”, Republican New Hampshire State Sen. Tuesday was supposed to be about how we “Make America Work Again”, as if we might learn something about tax policy or economic revitalization. We want a leader who is not afraid to take on the mess in Washington.
He painted a dim view of the current state of the country, rattling off crime statistics, low wages, and a risky world.
“Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they have lived through one global humiliation after another”, he said.
Before Trump spoke, speakers tried to lay the groundwork for his address. Jerry Falwell Jr., described him as a “blue collar billionaire”.
“Donald Trump wants to make sure you can pay the mortgage, put gas in the vehicle, and buy new clothes for the first day of school”, said Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee. The evening speeches this week haven’t been particularly fun to watch, nor have they succeeded in presenting any sort of coherent message about Trump or his agenda. But he also made clear it was intensely personal after a brutal primary campaign where Trump dismissed him as “Lyin’ Ted”, mocked Cruz’s wife’s looks and linked Cruz’s father to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
With each of those words, Ryan’s refusal to say anything remotely like it about the man above Pence on the ticket echoed louder. “Donald Trump knows that there is a better way forward”. “I was my first choice”, he said.
The 2016 Republican convention has already broken with traditions and standard norms.
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Republican nominee Donald Trump also wiped out his campaign debt, forgiving the more than $47 million in personal loans he’s made to his own campaign since a year ago. She serves executive vice president of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization and is considered to be an extremely close confidante of her father.
