Speaker after speaker on Monday took aim at presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, presenting her as out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans and the inheritor of President Barack Obama s “oppressive” administration.
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“When they see what Donald Trump did to contractors and workers”, said Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, “they will definitely be able to identify” and will not vote for him.
She criticized Republicans in Cleveland for directing criticism her way, but offering no solutions. Join us in a conversation about world events, the newsgathering process or whatever aspect of the news universe you find interesting or important. Four of his children joined the state’s delegation on the convention floor for the historic moment and appeared overwhelmed with emotion.
“Congratulations, Dad, we love you”, declared Donald Trump Jr.
Some delegates emphasized a need for a televised display of unity after the deeply divisive GOP primary. “But it’s not like my lifetime dream is to be vice president of the United States”, Christie said in an interview with CNN’s Jamie Gangel.
But Colorado’s Kendal Unruh, a leader of the anti-Trump forces, called the convention a “sham” and warned party leaders that their efforts to silence opposition would keep some Republicans on the sidelines in the fall campaign against Clinton.
The controversy raised questions about the Trump campaign’s attention to detail as the 70-year-old New Yorker squares off against the larger, more organised operation of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the race to win the presidential election on November 8.
Trump’s campaign did succeed in tamping down late efforts by dissident delegates to derail the convention, including during Tuesday’s roll call vote.
Trump addressed the convention briefly in videotaped remarks, thanking them for formally nominating him as the party’s White House candidate.
A plagiarism-detection software program commonly used by college professors determined that Trump’s speech turned up 16 consecutive words that identically matched Obama’s speech and that there was only a one-in-a-trillion chance such a match would occur only by coincidence, according to a blog post from California-based Turnitin LLC. “He’s made a career at the expense of everyone else”, said Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman.
Republicans are breaking out into chants of “lock her up” as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tries to impugn Hillary Clinton’s character in his speech to the Republican National Convention. “Lots of sound and fury – even a fog machine”, Clinton told 6,000 people at the convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Las Vegas.
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Top Trump adviser Paul Manafort said the matter had been “totally blown out of proportion”.
