Walker asserted Trump’s candidacy is a stand against the “liberal Washington insiders” – much like how Walker beat liberal Washington, D.C. insiders’ trial when he overcame the protests and his recall election after the passage of Act 10 in Wisconsin in 2010, he said. “I am proud to be gay”, he said to applause.
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Even Trump’s convention proved unconventional. “Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country”.
Americans woke up Friday to find “birds were chirping and the sun was out”, Obama said, adding that “some of the fears that were expressed [at the Republican convention] just don’t jibe with the facts”.
Trump failed to make good on a promise that his convention would deliver record TV ratings, as he has during the Republican primary debates. I knew his speech. they gave me his speech.
It has been widely reported that the Trump campaign is now using Nixon’s 1968 campaign as its template, and last night’s speech confirmed this, down to some of the same framing.
Trump made no apologies for the dramatic shift, however.
Because of the heated primary, because of his outsider status, Trump has drawn many comparisons to Reagan (most recently from his vice presidential pick, Mike Pence).
How many times will we hear the insult “Shrillary” if Clinton delivers her acceptance speech at the same ragged, unhinged volume with which Trump delivered his speech Thursday?
Cruz is widely expected to run in 2020 should Trump lose to Hillary Clinton. We created the one of the most successful conventions in the history of conventions.
Cruz drew boos from the crowd at the Quicken Loans Arena when he told the packed house to “vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom, and to be faithful to the constitution”. But, as the speech wore on (and it was a long one), the heat started to get to him, and the sweat dripped down his face-another Nixonian touch. My only shot is to tie my wagon to Donald Trump. What happened, you know somebody got booed the hell out of a place by thousands and thousands of people. “See, to me, that’s dishonorable”. Is it some alternative agenda, or lingering resentment over Trump’s admittedly stupid tweets about his wife and his dad? What I will not do is suggest that the senator takes his positions for political purposes, because one of the things that we have to change in our politics is the idea that people can not disagree without challenging each other’s character and each other’s patriotism…. “I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain”. What is the path forward from a moment featuring Cruz speaking the code word “conscience”, thus revealing he is just fine with Republicans not voting for Donald Trump? “Now Ted never denied that it was his father”.
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Later, Trump passed along a National Enquirer story in which, based on a fuzzy photo that might as well have been taken from the moon, Rafael Cruz was “linked” with Lee Harvey Oswald during the latter’s stay in New Orleans in 1963. The tone was less enthusiastic than it was conflicted, although Trump certainly had his supporters: “Make America Great Again!” became a rallying cry in the hall, and Republican loyalists were equally motivated to prevent another Clinton presidency as they are to elect him, if not more so.
