What will commentators, the Democrats and Trump supporters have to say in response? And Republicans, blind with anti-Clinton animus, can’t see it. Press delegates on Donald Trump’s rhetoric-on his behavior and his temperament-and they deflect. “If she were any more on the inside, she’d be in prison”, Walker said, in a winking nod to one of the convention’s trademark anti-Clinton chants, “Lock her up!”.
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Christie’ said Comey “forgot his job” by deciding not to recommend criminal charges against Clinton over her use of a personal email server as US secretary of state. He will also criticise her willingness to bring in thousands of refugees from the Syrian civil war.
Regardless of their feelings about Trump, however, everyone at the convention seems to agree that Hillary Clinton does not belong in the White House.
Christie ended his own presidential run in February. Hear it enough, and it begins to sound like a mantra, a way to rationalize the decision to put Donald Trump a stone’s throw from the presidency. Delegates will later shuttle over to the Quicken Loans Arena for the final night, culminating with a speech by GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.
Trump will tell Americans he will speedily address the violence that has dominated headlines, such as the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers earlier this month.
But in politics, as in life, you’ve got to know your limitations. The next president takes office on January 20. The complaints even come from law firms that had formerly represented Trump in these types of lawsuits.
He would roll back federal regulations that he said cost the country $2 trillion a year, providing new wealth that will allow an upsurge in spending to fix roads, bridges, airports and tunnels. “Nothing. Nothing. I saved money”, Trump said in an interview with ABC News in which he also said he wouldn’t be advertising any time soon.
The ad, titled “The Truth About Hillary”, comes ahead of Trump’s Thursday night speech at the Republican National Convention, where he will accept the party’s nomination for president.
Trump will present himself as someone who can solve problems that have proved hard over the decades.
Speaking to “the forgotten men and women of our country”, the people who “work hard but no longer have a voice”, he declared: “I am your voice”.
“If he wins on November 8… on November 9 I’ll be sitting across from him”, said Christie.
The prevailing narrative at the Cleveland convention has not been about Trump’s positions, but dominated instead by the failure of he party’s various factions to unite behind Trump because of lingering concerns over his policy positions and temperament.
He stuck to the controversial proposals of his primary campaign, including building a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border and suspending immigration from nations “compromised by terrorism”.
Cruz walked onto the Cleveland stage to a standing ovation and held the audience’s rapt attention until he told delegates to “vote your conscience” with no mention of nominee Trump, who had called him “Lyin’ Ted” on the campaign trail.
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Trump’s highly anticipated acceptance speech was expected to be part bluster and part Elizabeth Warren as he tried to make the case against Hillary while appealing to the disaffected middle class.
