MS MEREDITH MCIVER (above), who took responsibility for the plagiarised portions of Mrs Melania Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention. It appears a direct result of the schism between Trump and the mainstream Republicans, as well as the distinct lack of aptitude for, and interest in, traditional campaigning and political leadership from the nominee.
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Trump said the alliance has taken a step in the “right direction” in deciding to focus more on terrorism.
“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”, Cruz responded. He did say, though, that he is going to “work with, and appoint, the best prosecutors and law enforcement officials in the country to get the job done”, as well as “ensure that all of our kids are treated equally, and protected equally”.
Election opponent Hillary Clinton and other Democrats are to blame for numerous nation’s ills, Trump said, and the problems of poverty, violence, and war “will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them”. Most said they expected Trump to rally the convention in his acceptance speech Thursday night. Indeed, Clinton was aggressively attacked throughout the four-day Republican convention, with delegates repeatedly chanting, “Lock her up”. “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it”.
It’s far too late in the game to expect Donald Trump to abandon his nativist and Republican sacred cow-slaughtering platform, but it also far beyond time that he started injecting some more policy into his politics to try to convince the doubters that his platform might actually be workable.
“After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before”.
With regards to the recent targeted shootings of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Dallas, Texas, Trump called them “an attack on all Americans”, and blamed President Barack Obama for using “the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color”.
After ascending the stage to the theme from the action film Air Force One, Trump said he “humbly and gratefully” accepted the Republican nomination to the presidency, then launched into a prepared teleprompter speech peppered with caustic asides about career politicians. As he moves into the general election campaign, he’s sticking 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”.
Donors who opened their wallets to the tune of at least $100,000 to either the party or the joint fund between Trump and the RNC met with Pence at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Wednesday night, reports the Journal.
“I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves”.
“That is why Hillary Clinton’s message is that things will never change. This is not politics – right and wrong matters”, he said.
Hardy Billington, a delegate from Poplar Bluff, said he “really likes” Cruz, but “I really wish he had went ahead and did that (endorse Trump)”. He vowed to defeat “the barbarians of ISIS”, the acronym for Islamic State. “Beginning on January 20, 2017, safety will be restored”, Trump said.
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.
But in the end, many of these points were made when Ivanka Trump, Trump’s daughter, introduced her father. “I loved the speech”, she said.
A series of distractions at the convention largely thwarted a bid by the Trump campaign to show him as a caring father and magnanimous business leader who would bring greater prosperity and safety to the United States.
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“I have seen him fight for his employees”.
