Trump formally received the nomination Tuesday in a roll call vote of the state delegations.
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Monday’s theme from the speakers at Quicken Loans Arena was “Make America safe again”.
Christie, who is governor of New Jersey and leads Trump’s White House transition team, told dozens of donors the campaign was drawing up a list of federal government employees to fire if Trump defeats Clinton.
After Melania Trump’s speech on Monday night at the Republican convention, Donald Trump’s campaign denied any similarities between her remarks and Michelle Obama’s during the Democratic convention in 2008.
The governor, a dropout in the GOP presidential race who ended up on the short list for Trump’s running mate, energized the hall as he ticked through numerous accusations of wrongdoing against Clinton and implored delegates to shout “guilty”.
“That’s what he does”, she said. Just days earlier, Trump had said a federal judge’s Mexican heritage prevents him from fairly overseeing a lawsuit against him.
New York’s delegates were at the front of the crowd during the historic moment, including Terrence Murphy, Doug Colety, Michael Lawler and the state GOP chairman, Ed Cox.
The result hasn’t really been in doubt for months, but now it’s a reality.
Following the roll call vote, a parade of Trump’s former campaign rivals, Republican leaders who are lukewarm about his nomination and more family members are scheduled to take center stage. He has been brought low by a plot by his aids to cause a traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge as political retribution, and by a failed presidential bid that won him just a fraction of the vote in the New Hampshire primary. Sure we have, and you know what I call those?
As it happens, NY was indeed able to cast the crucial votes after passing when its actual turn came up.
“Normally, after a convention, a candidate moves up a little bit”.
A tough general election fight against Hillary Clinton awaits.
Trumpism, Here and There: The nationalist, populist, anti-establishment, and anti-immigrant rhetoric of Donald Trump isn’t just noticeable overseas with the controversial Brexit referendum-it’s an global trend.
Two senior Republicans, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, spoke in favor of Trump.
She recalled scribbling notes in her school report cards and how excited she becomes when introducing him to her friends.
McIver’s statement said she and Mrs. Trump had discussed many people who had inspired her, including Mrs. Obama, “and messages she wanted to share with the American people”.
OH traditionally has been a key battleground state in presidential elections and is expected again to play a huge role in deciding the next president.
But three sets of people, each with their own interests, used innovative methods to shed light on the issues that matter most to them: immigration, wealth distribution and inequality, and derogatory rhetoric.
“It doesn’t bode well that we’re trying to do this at the last minute on national television”, Harris said.
A convention – all you need to know Media captionWhat’s the point of a party convention anyway?
Still, the plagiarism controversy and other unforced errors by the campaign cast a shadow over the convention and raised fresh questions about Trump’s oversight of his campaign, which gives voters a window into how a candidate might handle the pressures of the presidency.
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While Mr. Kasich spoke to the MI delegation in Cuyahoga Falls on Tuesday, you’d never know from his comments that there was a presidential convention going on 40 minutes away.
