Mr Donald Trump is planning to sketch out a vision of a nation hovering on the brink of disaster as he presents himself as the only leader who can protect Americans and fix a suffering economy. The event was boycotted by many big-name establishment Republicans, such as 2012 nominee Mitt Romney and members of the Bush family that gave the party its last two presidents.
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The 1968 Wharton graduate formally accepted the party’s nomination in a televised speech Thursday night.
The Texas senator refused to endorse Trump during his Wednesday speech, even as delegates loudly jeered him from the convention floor. And while he’s kept his distance from the convention site, he didn’t avoid his own spat with the Trump team.
Trump didn’t mention former President George W. Bush, who led a war to oust Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Trump said he would speedily address the violence that has dominated headlines, such as the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers earlier this month.
For example, Trump explicitly voiced support for the Second Amendment and vowed to appoint a Supreme Court justice with traditionally conservative judicial beliefs.
But conservatives have rallied around Trump’s immigration promises, calling them necessary steps to ensure America’s future.
Much of the speech, however, painted a bleak image of modern America as unsafe, unstable and reeking with poverty and economic stagnation.
Brock said the source was not planted by Correct the Record in the Trump campaign, and he said his group “took a little time” to verify that the speech was legitimate. “A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes”.
Trump supporters were furious at Cruz, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who called the senator “totally selfish”.
However, he added that in doing so, his administration would be “considerate and compassionate” when giving immigrants the “respect they deserve”.
“That is why Hillary Clinton’s message is that things will never change”. Trump son Donald Jr accused Cruz of “total disloyalty”. He said that President Obama “truly regrets” appointing Clinton as Secretary of State in 2008.
“America is far less safe – and the world is far less stable – than when Obama made the decision to put Hillary Clinton in charge of America’s foreign policy”, he will say, according to excerpts of the speech released by the campaign. “Lock Her Up!” during speeches throughout the week.
“Her single greatest accomplishment may be committing such an egregious crime and getting away with it – especially when others have paid so dearly”, Trump said.
And talking trade, Trump said the county’s manufacturing trade deficit has reached an all-time high of $800 billion in a single year. He said he would do everything he could to keep American industries in the US, and use the profits to fund infrastructure improvements.
“I am not going to let companies move to other countries, firing their employees along the way, without consequences”, Trump said.
Trump’s acceptance of the Republican nomination marks a historic moment in what has proven to be an unprecedented year in American political history.
Referring to his plans to restrict Muslim immigration, Trump didn’t call for a blanket ban but said “we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place”.
Trump painted a dire state of affairs in the United States and the world – instability overseas and crumbling infrastructure at home – and blamed those problems on President Barack Obama and his former secretary of state, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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