While the party did seem to unify around its nominee, Donald Trump, some of the strongest and most impassioned rhetoric surrounded the argument that Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, would be bad for the country.
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The Massachusetts Democrat says “I think if it were me, I would know it by now”.
The boos and chants for Cruz to endorse Trump may have started in front with the NY delegation, which Cruz broke off from his speech to taunt, but it was heard all over the hall. A President Hillary Clinton isn’t going to make it safer or greater. “But being against the other candidate is not a message, and it’s not a winning strategy”. He took to the convention floor immediately following the speech, having arrived to watch his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, accept the party’s vice presidential nomination. Stand and speak and vote your conscience.
So for liberals, the Democrats, and in some ways the Republicans, have moved in their direction if not past them.
Thursday night, Trump’s acceptance speech could have been summed up with the quote, “The only thing we have to fear is … if you have 90 minutes and I will tell you about all of them”.
Trump said he saved Cruz from further embarrassment as the delegates were turning on him live on national television.
I rarely agree with Ted Cruz. “I don’t pretend to agree with every plank in our party’s platform; but fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline, and nobody in this race is being honest about it except Donald Trump”. Sure, absolutely. Do I think Hillary Clinton has the potential to be the death of our republic? When I asked former Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler about Trump’s news conference, he responded, “Trump may have oppositional disorder”. I would never do a thing like that.
But geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer, president of political-risk consulting firm the Eurasia Group, pointed out in a Thursday interview that libertarian Gary Johnson’s support reached 13%
Democrats counter with a vision of Donald Trump as a man of with no principles who is campaigning to be dictator-in-chief and will unleash nuclear holocaust while playing footsie with Vladimir Putin.
All Trump cares about is inflating his personal brand, and getting elected president is the best way to do that.
“The party I was part of is dead”, McCain said. Trump will lose. I have to say it again.
What to make of the spectacle that was Texas Sen.
Hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah, issued a rare public statement, slamming Cruz, who suggested during his convention appearance that Republicans “vote their conscience”. Some delegates booed the senator from Texas, while others chanted, “We want Trump!“. Ted Cruz refused to endorse Trump during a convention speech. Melania Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, was accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech.
I know you people don’t have choices, many of you must be saying that a first woman president is better than an Islamophobic lunatic.
At least the conventions this year were able to clearly present the themes of their respective parties. And another, the Republicans, who after 8 years out of the White House, are ready for the general election and fired up to defeat Clinton.
Another rising star in the GOP, Iowa Sen.
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The Clinton scandal of storing classified information on her private email server produced a major crack in the campaign’s façade. “Her judgment and character are not suited to be sitting in the most powerful office in the world”.
