Trump in the speech called for tax cuts. Confidently addressing the finale of his party’s less-than-smooth national convention, the billionaire businessman declared the nation’s problems too staggering to be fixed within the confines of traditional politics. VIDEO: Protester interrupts Trump’s acceptance speechTrump was introduced by his daughter Ivanka, who announced a childcare policy proposal that the campaign had not mentioned before. “Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims”.
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In an appeal to Americans shaken by violence at home and around the world, Trump promised that under his presidency, “safety will be restored”.
Cruz explained after his speech that he would not endorse Trump because the candidate attacked Cruz’s wife, Heidi, and suggested Cruz’s father was involved in President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination.
He talked of the recent killings of police officers in Dallas and in Baton Rouge, saying an attack on law enforcement is “an attack on all Americans”.
Update: Politco reports that RNC speakers” drafts were leaked to a Hillary Clinton-friendly group: “The super PAC, Correct the Record, obtained a document containing the drafts from “a Republican source who had access to it and they sent it to us, ‘ said Correct the Record founder David Brock, a close Clinton ally”.
“Together we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace”, he said to raucous cheers from the packed Quicken Loans Center in Cleveland, Ohio. “Her bad instincts and her bad judgment – something pointed out by Bernie Sanders – are what caused numerous disasters unfolding today”. “Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored and abandoned”. “I feel so badly”, he continued.
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. LGBT is short for the words lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
In the months after that, he managed to constantly make inflammatory remarks against women, Muslims, Mexicans, foreign countries, belittle his opponents by calling them “Lying Ted”, “Little Marco” and “Crooked Hillary”, and still plowed through all the controversies that ensued. He pledged to fight terrorism by improving intelligence gathering and working with allies in the region to battle IS.
The Cruz detour came as Trump basked on what he said was a convention “filled with love”.
“When you have my father in your corner, you will never again have to worry about being let down”, Ivanka Trump told the American people in her speech.
The speech capped a long and rocky primary campaign for Trump, who entered the Republican race in June 2015. Koerner said she was still deciding whether to support Trump, while another delegate, Darl Eaton of Eueless, estimated “95 percent or more” of the delegation was on the same page. “He hires the best person for the job, period”.
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Cruz thwapped around President Obama and presumptive Dem nominee Hillary Clinton for a while – already proven to be very popular sport in the hall this week.
