That’s the question hanging over the heads of two former presidential contenders here in Cleveland – the last two men Donald Trump vanquished on his path to the Republican nomination. “And resentment but no solutions about anything that he even talked about”, she said.
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Before Trump took to the stage Friday, his daughter Ivanka tried to warm up the crowd and soften her father’s image. “The GOP convention has shown us that failure is simply not an option”. Republican disunity was on display the previous night when Trump’s primary rival, Ted Cruz, stopped far short of endorsing Trump and drew loud boos.
The convention kicked off Monday with a freakish controversy that had Melania Trump, the nominee’s wife, partially plagiarizing first lady Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech.
The acceptance speech by Trump, 70, closed out a four-day convention that underscored his struggle to heal cracks in the Republican Party over his anti-illegal-immigrant rhetoric and concerns about his temperament.
The top issues discussed on Facebook during his speech – in which laid out a bleak assessment of the USA today and vowed to be a law and order president – were immigration, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and crime.
Delegates hold signs in support of Donald Trump during roll call at the Republican National Convention.
“We think at the end of it there will be economic gain and job creation that will come from this”, he said.
“The party has come together”, Trump said, later adding: “The few people that aren’t there, it’s OK”.
Munroe said, “This was not a typical convention, but it was a successful one”.
Cleveland: A triumphant Donald Trump on Thursday accepted the Republican White House nomination and made a promise to fearful Americans that “safety will be restored” if they shun Hillary Clinton to make him president. Asked specifically about Cruz’s non-endorsement of Trump, Negron said, “I’m not the arbiter of speaker decisions or delegate responses”.
Trump said he will overhaul tax laws and energy rules, get rid of regulations and decrease taxes, while offering few specifics. The GOP candidate also repeated his desire to nominate a conservative to the Supreme Court to replace the late Antonin Scalia.
“Middle-income Americans and businesses will experience profound relief, and taxes will be greatly simplified for everyone”, he will say according to the excerpts released by the campaign. “I met him once”, Trump said. German-born Thiel said he was proud to be gay, but did not make an expected appeal for the Republican Party to adopt a more gay-friendly platform. “Certainly no one here is interested in Hillary Clinton, but we need as many people to get enthusiastically behind Donald Trump and work to get him elected”.
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Then he expanded the radius of those he criticized: “Other than a small group of people who have suffered massive and embarrassing losses, the party is VERY united”.
