CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) – Chris Christie conceded in an interview Tuesday he was “disappointed” that Donald Trump didn’t pick him to be his running mate – but he’s already “over it”.
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“Well, tonight, as a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold her accountable for her performance and her character”.
Christie then began a game of question and answer. Christie asked after every charge he laid before the crowd.
Next to her, a delegate named John Traier said that he was disappointed that the national Republican platform was so starkly opposed to gay and lesbian rights, but added that he was pleased that the New Jersey delegation had supported equality.
“That President can only be my mentor, my best friend, my father, Donald Trump”, his son said. The relentless spotlight on an opponent’s supposed criminality is another departure. One former GOP presidential candidate, Ben Carson, drew a connection between Clinton and Lucifer, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said scandals follow Clinton and her husband “like flies”.
For example, Michelle Obama said in 2008 that “Barack and I were raised with so numerous same values, that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them”.
The message, Mukasey said, the convention should send to her should be “loud, clear and short: No way, Hillary”.
But their embrace of the invective against the presumptive Democratic nominee is absolute.
If there’s one person – and maybe only one person – who can unify the Republican Party, it’s Hillary Clinton.
Republican party officials hope that a different side of Trump comes through by week’s end that fights off the combative image of rallies and in the media.
We write this letter as a statement of utmost displeasure with a part of your speech at the Republican National Convention. We’re gonna present the facts to you.
“We can not make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America’s secrets and lied about this to the American people”. Ivanka and Eric Trump are also set to speak at the convention later in the week.
But the fallout over Melania Trump’s address, which featured unattributed excepts from a speech by First Lady Michelle Obama, mounted on Tuesday as critics used it to question the campaign’s competence and readiness for power and the campaign swatted away the controversy as “absurd”.
However, that did not stop Trump Jr. from talking about the time the two of them spent on construction sites, watching cement get poured.
After making a few forced analogies about the brain, he too went on to espouse the evils of Clinton and what she would do to the Supreme Court and to the educational system in the US.
It’s those independents that Trump’s campaign hopes it can peel off – if it can keep up a steady drumbeat of negativity about Clinton.
Liberalism has failed Americans on jobs, the economy, eradicating poverty and growing the middle class, Ryan said.
Top Republicans sought to put the controversy to rest.
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“Whatever happened with the writing was unfortunate”, Republican Sen. “I nearly think when he does something like that, he makes himself vulnerable to the public”, Maria DiGiovanni, the mayor of Hackettstown, said.
