NO STOPPING HIM NOW Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump grins smugly on the final day of his party’s national convention in Cleveland on Thursday (Friday in Manila).
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Ivanka, who has worked alongside her father for more than 10 years, said he is “color blind and gender neutral” when it comes to his businesses.
There’s a reason the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week featured a parade of women delivering testimonials about their relationships with Donald Trump, capped off Thursday night by an extended appeal to women from Trump’s oldest daughter and close confidante, Ivanka.
Hillary Clinton is expected to announce her selection for Vice President as soon as Friday in a message to her supporters.
While the newly minted nominee said the GOP is behind him, his convention featured a noisy floor protest Monday by anti-Trump delegates over convention voting rules. They are issues usually touted by Democrats.
“I didn’t start anything with the wife”, Trump said, referring to a pro-Cruz super PAC that circulated a photo before the Utah caucuses of Trump’s wife, Melania, posing naked in GQ in 2000. No more presumptive. He’s it. He’s the man. He’s the one the Republicans have quarterbacking their team this election season. That depends on whether the few remaining voters who have not made up their minds are as scared silly as Trump thinks they should be and are made to feel reassured when he tells them, “I am your voice”. Given what Trump accomplished in the primaries, it’s probably prudent to avoid making too many assumptions in the meantime. “I think she’s one of his best assets”. Except I might have pointed it out.
“He does the blue collar, she does the millennials”, Steel said. Indeed, his speech’s dark and menacing imagery of hundreds of thousands of risky illegal immigrants and criminals “roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens”, and its repeated promises to bring “law and order”, were the sorts of things you’d expect to hear from a Third World strongman, not a President of the United States.
Trump’s acceptance speech was steeped in much of the bald anger that has fueled his campaign to date.
“To make life safe in America, we must also address the growing threats we face from outside America: we are going to defeat the barbarians of ISIS”.
It transpired that Trump’s third wife, an ex-model, had included sections from a speech given by First Lady Michelle Obama in 2008. “But if he did, it’s fine”, Trump said.
The New York businessman, who has never held elected office, filled his speech with some of the bravado he used to win the Republican nomination over 16 rivals, punctuating his rhetorical points by waving an index finger. Franken offered a backhanded compliment to V.P. nominee Mike Pence, saying, “it was refreshing to see someone say something nice about Trump who wasn’t related to him or stood to inherit a lot of his money”. The man they described seemed generous, smart, likable, a very hard worker with big ideas and big accomplishments in the world of real estate development.
Trump has long relied on his children in business. He said if he had run as an independent he would have defeated the Republican candidate.
That same family-driven model has extended to politics.
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Trump and his vice-presidential pick, IN governor Mike Pence, are now squarely focused on their general election campaign against Clinton.
