Trump stuck to his hardline position on illegal immigrants, saying they were taking away jobs from American citizens and in some cases committing crimes. He accused President Barack Obama of inflaming racial tensions rather than calming them.
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His speech was filled with some of the bravado he used to win the Republican nomination over 16 rivals.
“Whether you’re the governor of OH, whether you’re a senator from Texas, or any of the other people that I beat so easily and so badly, you have no choice”, Trump said. “Nobody knows the system better than me”, he added to seemingly knowing laughter.
“He will fight for equal pay for equal work”, Ivanka Trump declared in her well-received speech.
Mr Trump said policies pursued by Mrs Clinton in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria had made a bad situation worse. He blamed her for the rise of so-called Islamic State militants and blasted her willingness to accept thousands of Syrian refugees. He also disavowed America’s foreign policy posture under both Democratic and Republican presidents, criticizing “fifteen years of wars in the Middle East” and declaring that “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo”.
“This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism and weakness”, he said.
The New York businessman, who has never held elective office, needs a strong performance on Thursday night to improve his chances of getting a boost in opinion polls as Democrats prepare for their own more scripted convention next week in Philadelphia. It seems that Trump took his kids to more construction sites than baseball games.
“They ran Trump’s acceptance speech through a plagiarism app, and it turns out most of it was lifted from Vladimir Putin”, George Takei wrote, while Eric Benet sniped: “#TrumpSpeech I give it 4 out of 5 swastikas. Party leaders sought to assure the media and the nation that the GOP is unified behind Donald Trump.
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.
“You know, he’ll come and endorse over the next little awhile”. The next president takes office on January 20.
The convention’s four days were dominated at times by controversies that distracted from Trump’s message. “They said, ‘We’re moving it.’ And Kimmel and Fallon and all the shows, they all went back a long way ’cause they weren’t gonna miss this convention”. One of his biggest applause lines came when he vowed to appoint a Supreme Court justice “who will uphold our laws and our Constitution”, which “will be one of the most important issues decided by this election”. Instead, Trump went on to energize millions, redefine conservatism for the 21st century and install himself, a consummate outsider and political novice, as the standard bearer for the Party of Lincoln.
“American voters are really smart and I’m confident that they will see through Ivanka Trump’s statements last night to recognize Donald Trump as who he really is, and that is not a champion of women”.
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Donald Trump today vowed to “put America first” and restore “law and order” in a country rocked by shootings and attacks as he appealed to the Americans to elect him to the White House while formally accepting the Republican nomination as the presidential candidate.
