And when women who are running for office emphasize the issues that disproportionately impact women, they’re accused of playing the “gender card” – like Hillary Clinton was, by Donald Trump.
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The Democratic National Convention is set to begin on Monday in Philadelphia. Many appeared to be positive toward her, whether or not they agreed with her message. “I will be voting for Donald Trump in November, and I will urge my fellow Americans to do the same. Do we easily and quickly get a guy who went out too far on something to admit he was wrong? No”. For example, just hours before Pence, a committed internationalist, assured delegates and millions of voters that America would defend its allies, Trump gave an interview in which he balked at defending North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries, a policy that has been the cornerstone of the alliance for 70 years.
“Hillary scares me to death”, Dobson wrote last month. But rather than stay focused on Clinton or reach out to the general election voters he now must court, the newly minted Republican nominee spent considerable time stoking the fire of his bitter quarrel with Republican former rival Ted Cruz. The very thought of that haunts my nights and days. “His vision of America is one where we Americans are kind of helpless, we need to be rescued”, Clinton said. Does that narrow range of experience mislead Trump into promoting protectionist trade policies that conservative economists insist would be disastrous for the country?
With dark imagery and an nearly angry tone, Trump portrayed the United States as a diminished and even humiliated nation, and offered himself as an all-powerful savior who could resurrect the country’s standing in the eyes of both enemies and law-abiding Americans.
“Real change is only going to come from outside of the system …”
Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, took a prime speaking spot Thursday night just ahead of Trump and urged other members of the LGBT community to stand with the GOP candidate to restore American greatness.
Ivanka Trump speaks on the last day of the Republican National Convention Cleveland on Thursday. One of his gay friends, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel, preceded him on the convention stage and made news by declaring, “Every American has a unique identity. Although she would be good, I will say”. He said the candidate was a sociopath who would “make Hitler blush” and called his supporters “morons”.
It was an interesting pledge about a candidate who called a female professional breastfeeding “disgusting”, who derided a woman from the organization Make It Work who asked him about his position on child care past year (“It’s a big subject, darling”, Trump said), who called pregnancy an “inconvenience” for businesses, and who has been virtually mum, save for a small handful of vague statements, about gender equality in the course of a campaign in which he has not hesitated to offer a sweeping series of opinions and proposals. “Hillary Clinton wants to continue a reckless foreign policy that has made the world less safe for LGBT Americans”. “I have to tell you, I think Heidi Cruz is a great person”.
As she pressed the case for her father to be elected the next occupant of the White House, Ivanka Trump was also quietly building her own brand.
“Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist”, he said. “This time, the terrorist targeted our LGBTQ community. This is just kooky”, Cruz said. “Thank you”, he said, in one of his few off-script moments of the night.
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So, as controversy continues to surround Trump’s candidacy and the Republican Party, can the businessman and reality star win the U.S. presidency?
