Trump, who called himself “the law and order candidate”, went on to touch on his plans to “put America first”, his plans to cut taxes (“America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world”, he said – a blatant lie), and how he wants to give up on worldwide treaties, which he says have lost America respect in the global scene.
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Trump’s speech underscored his struggle to heal fissures in the Republican Party over his anti-illegal-immigrant rhetoric and concerns about his temperament.
It’s a sort of family value, in a way, but it’s not about the Republican Party anymore.
Cruz allies have since repeatedly pointed to that low blow from Trump as a reason for refusing to support the Republican nominee. Trump swept the primary and won every county in the Keystone State.
‘Throw a dart, ‘ I thought.
“But that’s OK”, Trump added.
Below are Donald Trump’s remarks accepting the Republican nomination as delivered. He appeals to newer and younger voters with his honesty and the courage he shows in speaking his mind.
The moment resembled so many that have punctuated Trump’s unlikely candidacy for president: relitigating past skirmishes at a time when his campaign could be taking a victory lap, this time over a fairly well-received nomination acceptance speech that helped salvage a rocky convention.
Gary Kasparov, former world chess champion and now a dissident Russian politician, said “I’ve heard this sort of speech a lot in the last 15 years and trust me, it doesn’t sound any better in Russian”. “He is doing an extremely good job in reaching out [to blacks]”.
As the crowd chanted “Lock her up” for her handling of United States foreign policy, Trump waved them off and said, “Let’s defeat her in November”, to roaring approval.
“I know nothing about his father, I know nothing about Lee Harvey Oswald”.
That was perhaps in reaction to the speech given on Monday night by Trump’s wife Melania, who was accused of plagiarism when she repeated lines from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama, Obama’s wife. The timing is aimed at shifting attention away from the end of Donald Trump’s Republican convention and generating excitement before the start of Clinton’s own convention next week in Philadelphia. Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., for example, cited his recent introduction of legislation that would affect entitlement spending. He was just repeating what he’d read in a very reliable publication, the National Enquirer, Trump insisted Friday: “This was a magazine that, frankly, in many respects, should be very respected”. But it is clear from the convention that there are both new ideas and new people within the party as a result of Trump and both seem likely to make the fall campaign exciting and unpredictable.
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John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax.
