“Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it”, Trump told a fired-up crowd of backers that packed the downtown Quicken Loans Arena.
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The speech was the climax of a four-day convention where speaker after speaker furnished the 2,472 delegates, along with roughly 50,000 other attendees, not with facts about the nominee’s qualifications, his personal values, policy ideas and how as president he plans to handle a stream of crises that has gripped the nation and the world in recent weeks, but with an indictment of Hillary Clinton – for submitting to “sexual abuse by her husband”, for harboring “sympathies for Lucifer”, and for her e-mail indiscretions.
“It was nearly WWE fashion – it was nearly like a wrestling event”, Burlison said, and “Donald Trump clearly came out on top”.
Election opponent Hillary Clinton and other Democrats are to blame for numerous nation’s ills, Trump said, and “the problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction overseas – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place”.
He will accuse Clinton of failures while serving as President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state and cite her use of a private email server as evidence she is corrupt. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life.
But the real-estate mogul’s speech came amid questions over his abilities as a leader and manager after a convention repeatedly marred by tactical missteps and embarrassing moments of disunity.
Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow was billed on the convention speaking program released by the campaign last week, but described his appearance as a rumor and didn’t come.
After a Trump acceptance speech that appeared to be of record length, Clinton tweeted that “we can’t let him become president”.
Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace said the speech read better on paper than it was delivered. “He offered no real solutions to help working families get ahead or to keep our country safe, just more prejudice and paranoia”.
In a heavily scripted speech, Trump covered issues including law and order, national security, immigration, trade, tax-cuts and the threat of terrorism. The crowd responded with repeated ovations and chants like “build that wall!” and “U-S-A!”
Chants of “U.S.A! U.S.A!”
Falwell, in a nod to the discord, warned Republicans that if they failed to vote for Trump, they were risking the future of the Supreme Court.
“Remember: All of the people telling you that you can’t have the country you want are the same people that said Trump doesn’t have a chance”.
As Trump put the final touches on his speech and did a walk-though of the stage set-up, the Republican nominee took to Twitter to proclaim the convention a success. The Nielsen company said 23.4 million people watched Wednesday night’s session, up from the 21.9 million who watched the penultimate night of the 2012 Republican convention.
Other than a small group of people who have suffered massive and embarrassing losses, the party is VERY united.
He was introduced by his daughter Ivanka, who announced a childcare policy proposal that the campaign had not mentioned before.
Trump prepared for his big night amid another flap over his commitment to US military alliances, including North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. “His vision of America is one where we Americans are kind of helpless, we need to be rescued”, Clinton said.
“It’s been the summer of Trump”, he said, adding, “There’s never been anything like it”.
Clinton, who is expected to be formally nominated by her party at its convention in Philadelphia next week, has led Trump most of the year in the poll.
Trump’s plunge into a lengthy litigation of past spats with Ted Cruz – even bringing up his retweet of an unflattering photo of Cruz’s wife, Heidi – did nothing to assuage Republican fears about their standard bearer after a national convention complicated by unforced errors. “I met him once”, Trump said.
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Ted Cruz held a fair amount of cheers and applause at his appearance, and almost 90 percent of his speech. On Monday, opponents to Trump staged a dramatic floor fight in protest of his nomination.
