“The simple truth is liberal Washington insiders created our problems and Hillary Clinton is the ultimate liberal Washington insider”, Walker said. Melania Trump’s speech on Monday, in which she talked of the compassionate values she shared with her husband, was well received even if it lacked anecdotes.
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Democrats will continue to divide America into groups though it needs unity more than ever, Ryan said.
“We’re going to present the facts to you, as a jury of her peers, both in this hall and in living rooms around our nation”, Christie said, after reminding the crowd that he was a former federal prosecutor.
And for every indictment he laid out, enraged Republicans declared her “guilty!” and demanded that authorities “lock her up”.
Clinton campaign spokesmen did not respond to emailed requests for comment.
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a Trump critic who’s skipping the GOP convention, tweeted that Republicans “can make the case that she shouldn’t be elected without jumping the shark”.
A poll conducted between July 15 and 19 showed 43% of voters supported Hillary Clinton for president, with 36% supporting Trump for president.
James Devors, a Trump delegate from Aroma Park, 60 miles south of Chicago, agreed that he’d “like to hear more positive stuff about Mr. Trump”.
Trump, a successful business man, self-funded his campaign and spent less than money than most of his party’s other presidential candidates.
“I don’t think it means anything different today than it’s meant all along”, he said. “Donald Trump has never done anything halfway, least of all as a parent”, Tiffany Trump said, recounting some of the handwritten notes she got from her father.
“As president, my father will change the labor laws that were put in place at a time when women weren’t a significant portion of the workplace, and he will focus on making quality childcare affordable and accessible for all”, she said.
Clinton, meanwhile, has sought to use the negativity to her advantage. In a fundraising pitch to donors, her campaign said the GOP convention had “felt like a dark turning point in American politics”.
“Hillary Clinton is asking the people of this country and the people of the United States to make her the first President in history to take the oath of office after already having violated it”, he said. Some of Donald Trump’s former primary opponents are also slated to take the stage, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
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“They don’t understand why justice wasn’t done”, he said.
